Săç'er-dō'tal, a.

(110), a. [Fr., Pr., Sp., & Pg. sacerdotal, It. sacerdotale, Lat. sacerdotalis, from sacerdos, a priest, from sacer, holy, sacred.] Pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priestly; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority. Macaulay.