high priest
See also: highpriest
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Noun
high priest (plural high priests)
- A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
- In the history of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), the male person who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Always a descendant of Aaron the older brother of Moses.
- Jesus Christ.
- (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
- A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
- 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
- The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.
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- (Wicca) A third degree (sometimes forth degree) male witch in Wicca.
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clergyman
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male person who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement
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office of the Melchizedek priesthood
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References
"High Priest," Bible Dictionary, The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2006.
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