A priestly farewell to her

Shak., Pericles, iii. 1. 70. priest-monk (prēst'mungk), n. In the early church and in the Greek Church, a monk who is a priest; a hieromonach. priest rid (prēst'rid), a . Same as priest ridden . Rome - not the toothle beldame of modern days, but the avenging divinity of priest - rid monarchs. Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 341. priest ridden (prest'rid"n), a . [ priest + rid den . ] Managed or governed by priests; entirely swayed by priests. That pusillanimity and manle subjugation which by many in our age scornfully is called priest ridden ne , as I may so say: their term being priest ridden when they expre a man addicted to the clergy.