sacerˈdotage jocular.
[f. L. sacerdōt- (see next) with allusion to dotage. Cf. anecdotage.]
a. Derisively used for: The sacerdotal order, or the partisans of sacerdotalism. b. Sacerdotalism as characteristic of a religion in its ‘dotage’.
| 1859 Longstaffe in Archæol. æliana IV. 11 (art.) The Hereditary Sacerdotage of Hexham. 1875 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 382 Your representatives will have a sharper strife with the Sacerdotage. 1884 A. Lang Custom & Myth (1885) 27 A people fallen early into its sacerdotage and priestly second childhood. |