priest-ridden
Adjective
Meaning
Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
pontifical
apostolic
episcopal
evangelistic
controlled
papal
ecclesiastical
canonical
monastic
pastoral
clerical
ministerial
priestly
theocratic
bigoted
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Examples
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813.
Quebec City, Canada: "A rotten priest-ridden community who are the completest passengers & who won't do their bit in anything & of course not during the war!!"