unpriest

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ priest.

Verb

unpriest (third-person singular simple present unpriests, present participle unpriesting, simple past and past participle unpriested)

1. (transitive) To deprive of priesthood

   Synonym: unfrock

   • 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.

Noun

unpriest (plural unpriests)

1. (rare) One who is not a priest.

References

• “unpriest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• reinputs, repunits, unripest