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Dear, costly. high-priest, s. 1. Ethnicism: The chief priest in any faith, he who occupies the highest place in the hierarchy, as the Pontifex Maximus among the Romans. 2. Judaism : The divinely-appointed head of the Jewish hierarchy. The first to hold the office was Aaron, whose pontifical vestments and their adornments were to include a breast-plate, an ephod, a robe, a broidered coat, a miter, and a girdle. The girdle was to be of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and stones, each of them containing the names of six of the twelve tribes. The office was to descend lineally blemish, were to avoid eating things which died of in his family. The high-priests were to be without themselves, or marrying a widow or a divorced person. They were not to make mourning for private or domestic sorrows. They were to take the most important and solemn parts of the worship (Exod. xxviii., xxix.). [HOLY OF HOLIES.] The Romans were afraid of the influence likely to be acquired by so exalted a spiritual functionary_and apparently appointed a new one every year (John xviii. 13).