Priest, properly a man in touch with the religious life of the people, and for the most part consecrated to mediate between them and the Deity; the prophet, on the other hand, being one more in touch with the Deity, being at times so close to Him as to require a priest to mediate between him and the laity.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Priessnitz * Priestley, Joseph