Word Meanings - PRIESTCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Workwoman
  A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
• Powerful
  Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
• Wealthy
  Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
• Workhouse
  A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
• Working-day
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
• Workyday
  A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
• Powerless
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
• Workingmen
  of Workingman
• FRAUDULENCEFRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• Credulity
  Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
• Priesthood
  The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
• Workingman
  A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
• WORKINGDAY
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.
• Priestly
  Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.
• Working
  of Work
• Workless
  Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
• WORKMENSCOMPENSATIONACT
  A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his emp

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