Found priest quiet nursing wound (9)
I believe the answer is:
establish
'found' is the definition.
(found can mean to set up or establish)
'priest quiet nursing wound' is the wordplay.
'priest' becomes 'eli' (Biblical character).
'quiet' becomes 'sh' (both can be said to tell someone to be quiet).
'nursing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wound' becomes 'stab' (I've seen this before).
'eli'+'sh'='elish'
'elish' placed around 'stab' is 'ESTABLISH'.
(Other definitions for establish that I've seen before include "Set up or found" , "Set up or bring into existence" , "Set up a business or prove to be true" , "Verify" , "Institute; set up" .)