priestal en · ADJ
Etymology
From priest + -al. Piecewise doublet of presbyteral.
Meanings
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(rare) Relating to priests; priestly.
The matter has ended in the establishment of a priestal republican despotism, under which the protestant religion is proscribed, its exercise forbidden even in private, the protestant schools are broken up, […]
1846, George Barrell Cheever, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc, page 13: