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English-Thai Dictionary

priestcraft

N การ บวช เป็น พระ priesthood monasticism kan-bud-pen-pare

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIESTCRAFT

n.[priest and craft. ] The stratagems and frauds of priests; fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management of selfish and ambitious priests to gain wealth and power, or to impose on the credulity of others.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIESTCRAFT

PRIESTCRAFT Priest "craft `, n.

Defn: Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp. , in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others.It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. Macaulay.

New American Oxford Dictionary

priestcraft

priest craft |ˈprēstˌkraft ˈpristˌkræft | ▶noun often derogatory the knowledge and work of a priest.

Oxford Dictionary

priestcraft

priest |craft |ˈpriːs (t )krɑːft | ▶noun [ mass noun ] often derogatory the knowledge and work of a priest.