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PRIEST-RIDDEN Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PRIEST-RIDDEN is controlled or oppressed by priests.
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PRIEST-RIDDEN Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Priest-ridden definition: dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests. See examples of PRIEST-RIDDEN used in a sentence.
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priest-ridden - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
priest-ridden (comparative more priest-ridden, superlative most priest-ridden). Dominated or plagued by priests. 1691, William Carr, An Accurate Description ...
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priest-ridden
priest-ridden, ppl. a. (ˈpriːstˌrɪd(ə)n) Also -rid (obs. or arch.). [f. priest n. + ridden ppl. a.] ‘Ridden’, i.e. managed or controlled by a priest or priests; held in subjection by priestly authority.α 1653 Waterhouse Apol. Learn. 82 That pusillanimity..which by many in our Age scornfully is calle...
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priest-ridden, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective priest-ridden is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for priest-ridden is from 1647, in a letter ...
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PRIEST-RIDDEN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Francis Gleeson (priest)
Gleeson, who had ridden at the front of the column, addressed the assembled 800 men and gave them the general absolution whilst still mounted on his horse He was appointed parish priest of St Catherine's in Meath Street, Dublin on 30 August 1944.
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Priestridden - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating in the 1650s from "priest" + "ridden," priest-ridden means governed or controlled by priests, often with a negative or hostile connotation.
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Priest-ridden Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Priest-ridden definition: Dominated or tyrannized by priests.
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priest-rid, adj. meanings, etymology and more
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective priest-rid. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete.
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Priest-ridden (Grose 1811 Dictionary) - Words from Old Books
Governed by a priest, or priests. Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose. Priest-linked * Prig. Nearby.
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NETBible: priest-ridden - Bible.org
priest-ridden, a. Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift. [1913 Webster].
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ridden
ridden, ppl. a. (ˈrɪd(ə)n) [pa. pple. of ride v.] † 1. That has ridden, travelled. In comb. room-ridden, far-travelled. Obs.—11340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1131 Þis makelese man þat most was adouted, Þe romme riden alexandre, richest of kingus. 2. That has been ridden upon; broken-in.1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §1...
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Victor von Carben
Victor von Carben, or Victor of Carben (1422–1515) was a German rabbi of Cologne who converted to Catholicism and later became a priest. He wrote to the archbishop, congratulating him on having "plucked away the weeds from his bishopric and ridden it of Jews," though like Pfefferkorn, he
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Gude Axelsen Giedde
As a devoted adherent of Lutheranism, for his personal security during the tumultuous time of the Protestant Reformation, he is said to ridden his horse Giedde thus left his military career in order to become a priest.
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