Meaning of पुरोहित in English
- A clerk, a clergyman.
- Same as Clerical.
- The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.
- An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.
- One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.
- A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.
- A Presbyterian.
- That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
- Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.
- One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.
- Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.
- The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
- Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
- The office of a priest.
Meaning of पुरोहित in English
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