unpriest

present singular third person unpriests · participle present unpriesting · participle past unpriested · past unpriested

1. transitiveTo deprive of priesthood

   1 more example

   1644 July, John Milton, The Judgment of Martin Bucer touching Divorce, Book II, Chapter XXIV, tr. of Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi. The same thought Leo, bishop of Rome, Ep. 85, to the African bishops of Mauritania Caesariensis, wherein complaining of a certain priest, who divorcing his wife, or being divorced by her, as other copies have it, had married another, neither dissolves the matrimony, nor excommunicates him, only unpriests him.

   Synonyms: unfrock

plural unpriests

1. rareOne who is not a priest.