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Picture the one person at the front of a religious ceremony — the one who is trained and authorised to run it, and who stands between the ordinary people and whatever they are addressing. The word is not about being holy or devout; it is about holding that job.
可以想成：宗教儀式最前面站著的那個人——受過訓練、被授權主持，站在一般信眾和他們敬拜的對象中間。這個字說的不是「這個…更多收起
可以想成：宗教儀式最前面站著的那個人——受過訓練、被授權主持，站在一般信眾和他們敬拜的對象中間。這個字說的不是「這個人很虔誠」，而是「這個人擔任這個職務」；所以重點永遠在角色和資格，不在信心的深淺。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Priestname
- 1
A surname.
priestnoun/ˈpɹiːst/
- 1
A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
- The priest at the Catholic church heard his confession.
- The Shinto priest burnt incense for his ancestors.
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A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
- They flop and struggle, but she unhooks them swiftly, stunning them with a small brass priest.
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The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
priestverb/ˈpɹiːst/
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To ordain as a priest.
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
- He was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on the 29th September, 1624, by John, Bishop of Sodar and Man.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。