PRIESTLY Synonyms

• of or relating to clerks

• of or relating to the clergy

• appropriate for or engaged in office work

• of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)

• of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office

• of or relating to a government minister or ministry

• of or relating to a pastor

• relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

• a musical composition that evokes rural life

• a letter from a pastor to the congregation

• a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

• (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• a person appointed to a high office in the government

• a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

• the job of a head of a government department

• attend to the wants and needs of others

• work as a minister

• associated with the priesthood or priests

• written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing

• a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests

• adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal

• associated with the priesthood or priests

• befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood