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underpriest

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Middle English underprest

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Middle English · inherited fromunderprest
English todayunderpriest

From Middle English underprest, unnderrpreost, equivalent to under- + priest. Cognate with Icelandic undirprestur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.