From P.D. James, The Lighthouse, page 329.
He remembered that this routine preparation for a climb had always been done in silence, a formal, purposeful putting on of courage and resolution, almost, he thought, as if his grandfather had been an ordained priest and he the acolyte, both performing some wordless but long familiar sacerdotal rite.Sacerdotal from Wiktionary:
Adjective
sacerdotal (comparative more sacerdotal, superlative most sacerdotal)
1.Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.
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