"underpriest" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: underpriests [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English underprest, unnderrpreost, equivalent to under- + priest. Cognate with Icelandic undirprestur. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|underprest}} Middle English underprest, {{m|enm|unnderrpreost}} unnderrpreost, {{prefix|en|under|priest}} under- + priest, {{cog|is|undirprestur}} Icelandic undirprestur Head templates: {{en-noun}} underpriest (plural underpriests)
  1. A subordinate priest
    Sense id: en-underpriest-en-noun-eSMoFsjn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with under-

Inflected forms

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