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priestcraft
priestcraft (ˈpriːstkrɑːft, -æ-) 1. The ‘craft’ or business of a priest; the exercise of priestly functions. (Now only as an etymological nonce-use.)1483 Seill of Caus Edin. 2 May, MS. (Jam.), To the wpholde of devyne service at the said alter ouklie and daylie, and to the priestcraft at the alter a...
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William Arnall
disputes certain claims of the clergy in regard to tithes Animadversions on Bishop Sherlock's Remarks on the Tythe Bill, is reprinted in The Pillars of Priestcraft Children of Israel (1736, under the name Solomon Abrabanel), and Animadversions on Bishop Sherlock's Remarks on the Tythe Bill, reprinted in The Pillars of Priestcraft
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prince-craft
ˈprince-craft rare. [f. prince n. + craft, after priestcraft.] The skill or art of a prince or ruler. Chiefly dyslogistic.1741 Warburton Div. Legat. II. 3 Princecraft or Priest⁓craft. 1862 M{supc}Duff Sunsets Heb. Mount. 105 By consummate art, or rather by unprincipled princecraft, he had undermined...
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Alma 1 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapter 1. Nehor teaches false doctrines, establishes a church, introduces priestcraft, and slays Gideon—Nehor is executed for his crimes—Priestcrafts and persecutions spread among the people—The priests support themselves, the people care for the poor, and the Church prospers. About 91-88 B.C.
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Nehor
Alma accuses him of priestcraft and sentences him to death for enforcing his beliefs with violence. Alma accuses Nehor of priestcraft, and then sentences him to death for killing Gideon and using a sword to enforce religious beliefs.
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mastercraft
ˈmastercraft nonce-wd. [f. master n.1 + craft.] Politic dealing characteristic of a master.1711 Hickes Two Treat. Christ. Priesth. (1847) I. 140 There is no more..priestcraft in the clergy..than mastercraft in the father of a family.
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John Macgowan
Priestcraft Defended; a Sermon occasioned by the Expulsion of Six Young Gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading, and expounding the It was followed by A Further Defence of Priestcraft, being a Practical Improvement of the Shaver's Sermon on the Expulsion of Six Students, &c., occasioned
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Isaac Harby
"We wish to worship God, not as slaves of bigotry and priestcraft but as the enlightened descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
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trickish
trickish, a. (ˈtrɪkɪʃ) [f. trick n. + -ish1.] 1. Characterized by or given to tricks or trickery; rather tricky, crafty, or cunning.1705 Stanhope Paraphr. II. 391 The little trickish Arts of Dissimulation. 1760 J. Adams Diary 18 Dec., His habitual trickish, lying, cheating disposition. 1879 McCarthy...
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William Howitt
His Popular History of Priestcraft (1833) won him the favour of active Liberals and the office of alderman in Nottingham, where the Howitts had made their Published works
A Popular History of Priestcraft in all Ages and Nations (1833)
Calendar of Nature (1836)
The Rural Life of England (1838)
Colonization
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uncogged
▪ I. unˈcogged, ppl. a.1 [un-1 8 + cog v.1] Not blocked or stopped.1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A ij b, Those who are wealthy and well at ease, and mounted aloft upon the uncogged wheeles of prosperous fortune.▪ II. unˈcogged, ppl. a.2 [un-1 8 + cog v.3] Of dice: Not cogged or loaded.1870 Low...
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Richard Garnett (writer)
According to Joseph McCabe, Garnett "cherished a genuine and somewhat mystical belief in religion, which combined hostility to priestcraft and dogma with
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Amulonites
the Lamanites, the Nephites were considered more wicked than the Lamanites, and their religious manner was patterned after the order of Nehor, or using priestcraft
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Dan Chatterton
He repeatedly denounced "kingcraft" and "priestcraft" and the various "shams and swindles" which he saw as perpetuating inequality and the misery of the
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Thomas Roberts (radical writer)
picked up on the 'Apostles of Liberty' Richard Price and Joseph Priestley's demands for liberty of conscience as well as Thomas Paine's condemnation of 'priestcraft
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