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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SACERDOTALISM (from See also:Lat. sacerdos, See also:priest, literally one who presents sacred offerings, sacer, sacred, and dare, to give) , a See also:term applied, usually in a hostile sense, to the See also:system, method and spirit of a priestly See also:order or class, under which the functions, dignity and See also:influence of the members of the priesthood are exalted in the See also:ministry of See also:religion, and in the See also:church at the expense of the laity. This exalting of the priesthood in the See also:Christian church is based on the claim that the priest exercises sacrificial and supernatural See also:powers in the celebration of the See also:Eucharist.

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