(obsolete) A thick Italian soup containing pasta or dumplings.

simple past tense and past participle of priestess

present participle of priestess

(Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest.

(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.

(historical) A Roman Catholic secular priest, distinct from those living under a rule. / Later, a priest retained in chantries etc. to say masses for the dead. / A Roman Catholic priest generally.

Absence of priests.

(Catholicism, Anglicanism) A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.

(politics, derogatory) The constellation of technocrats, columnists, pundits, university professors, public intellectuals, business lobbyists and other powerful groups who benefit from the political status quo and use their position to defend and support it.

plural of bought priesthood