Definition of "Priestly"

Priestly¹

proper noun
plural Priestlys
1. A habitational surname from Old English.

Priestly²

adjective
not generally comparable, comparative more Priestly, superlative most Priestly
1. (history) Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.
  Quotations
  Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]
  1971, Norman Habel, Literary Criticism of the Old Testament, page 79
  Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.
  2004, Steven L. McKenzie, Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: I & II Chronicles, page 27
  Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua.
  2005 , Reinhard G. Kratz, translated by John Bowden, The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament, page 110