\Sac`er*do"tal\, a. [L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos,
-otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal.]
Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests;
relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity;
sacerdotal functions.

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