mag

mag (nominative singular)
magowie (nominative plural)
magi (derogatory nominative plural)
maga (genitive singular)
magów (genitive plural)
magowi (dative singular)
magom (dative plural)
maga (accusative singular)
magów (accusative plural)
magiem (instrumental singular)
magami (instrumental plural)
magu (locative singular)
magach (locative plural)
magu (singular vocative)
magowie (plural vocative)
magi (derogatory plural vocative)

(biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)


mag

magi (plural)
mag (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
magul (accusative definite nominative singular)
magi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
magii (accusative definite nominative plural)
mag (indefinite singular)
magului (definite singular)
magi (indefinite plural)
magilor (definite plural)
magule (singular vocative)
magilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.

(Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus


apostate

From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.


godfather

From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).

(Christianity) A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

krstný otec

reflects his relationship to the baptized child

kmotor

reflects his relationship to the parents of the baptized child


victim

From Middle French victime, from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”).

slagoffer

one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance

slagoffer

a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice

A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.

(by extension, Christianity) The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.


Adam

Adami (definite)
Adam (indefinite nominative singular)
Adami (definite nominative singular)
Adamë (indefinite nominative plural)
Adamët (definite nominative plural)
Adam (accusative indefinite singular)
Adamin (accusative definite singular)
Adamë (accusative indefinite plural)
Adamët (accusative definite plural)
Adami (dative indefinite singular)
Adamit (dative definite singular)
Adamëve (dative indefinite plural)
Adamëve (dative definite plural)
Adami (ablative indefinite singular)
Adamit (ablative definite singular)
Adamësh (ablative indefinite plural)
Adamëve (ablative definite plural)

From Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).

(religion, Christianity) Adam (biblical figure)


Saul

From Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl, “asked for”). Doublet of Silas, which derived from Aramaic.

Then Saul (who alſo is called Paul) filled with the holy Ghoſt, ſet his eyes on him

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:9, column 2:

(Christianity) The Hebrew name of Apostle Paul in the New Testament.


pastoral

/ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

(religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.

(religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.


pastoral

(Roman Catholicism) a letter written by a bishop or the pope explaining a doctrine


côr

From Middle Welsh cor, from Proto-Brythonic *kor, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

(architecture, Christianity) quire, choir


גלח

yi-noun

גלח • (galekh) m, plural גלחים (galokhem)

galekh (romanization)
galokhem (romanization)

(Christianity) priest (Christian, especially Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox)


testament

testamentet (definite singular)
testament (indefinite plural)
testamenta (definite plural)

From Latin testāmentum, via Old Norse testament.

(Christianity) a testament (one of the two parts of the Bible)


protocol

en-noun

protocol (countable and uncountable, plural protocols)

/ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/

Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Doublet of collage, collagen, and colloid.

doublet

This protocol of the Preface has been constant, with minor modification, from the Apostolic Tradition, of Hippolytus in 215 A.D., the earliest extant text of the Eucharistic Prayer, to the present 2002 Missale Romanum.

2010, Virgilio T.J. Suerte Felipe, The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist, Mass… What’s in a Name? […], →ISBN, pages 45–46:

The proper Preface for Eucharistic Prayer II also appears as Common Preface VI. In it, the protocol and body of the Preface structure are meshed.

2011, Michael S. Driscoll, J. Michael Joncas, The Order of Mass: A Roman Missal Study Edition and Workbook, →ISBN, page 213:

The celebrant then takes up this response in the first part of the preface itself (also known by the technical term ‘protocol’): […]

[2022, Uwe Michael Lang, The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform, →ISBN, page 140:

(Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.


apocalypse

From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), literally meaning "uncovering", from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John.

der

(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.


modern

nl-adj

modern (comparative moderner, superlative modernst)

moderner (comparative)
modernst (superlative)
modern (adverbial positive predicative)
moderner (adverbial comparative predicative)
het modernst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het modernste (adverbial predicative superlative)
moderne (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
modernere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
modernste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
modern (indefinite neuter positive singular)
moderner (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
modernste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
moderne (indefinite plural positive)
modernere (comparative indefinite plural)
modernste (indefinite plural superlative)
moderne (definite positive)
modernere (comparative definite)
modernste (definite superlative)
moderns (partitive positive)
moderners (comparative partitive)

→ Indonesian: modern

→ Papiamentu: modern (dated)

Borrowed from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus.


chorus

en-noun

chorus (plural choruses or (dated) chorusses or (rare) chori)

choruses (plural)
chorusses (dated plural)
chori (plural rare)

The noun is borrowed from Medieval Latin chorus (“church choir”), Latin chorus (“group of dancers and singers; dance”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “group of dancers and singers, choir, chorus; dance accompanied by song; round dance”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to encircle, enclose”) or *ǵʰoros. Doublet of choir and hora.
The plural form chori is from Latin chorī, from Ancient Greek χοροί (khoroí).
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

(Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.


autonomy

en-noun

autonomy (countable and uncountable, plural autonomies)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomíā, “freedom to use its own laws, independence”), from αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “living under one's own laws, independent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix). By surface analysis, auto- (“self”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

surf

(Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

(religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.


madre

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).


madre

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate of mãe.

Madre superiora.


madre

→ Tagalog: madre

Inherited from Latin mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare English matron.


madre

Borrowed from Spanish madre, from Latin mātrem, singular accusative of māter (“mother, matron”).


misa

From Malay misa, from Portuguese missa (“mass”), from Old Galician-Portuguese missa, from Late Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin mittō (“I send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).


misa

id-noun

misa (first-person possessive misaku, second-person possessive misamu, third-person possessive misanya)

misaku (first-person possessive)
misamu (possessive second-person)
misanya (possessive third-person)

From Malay misa, borrowed from Portuguese missa (“mass”), from Old Galician-Portuguese missa, from Late Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin mittō (“I send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Doublet of mes.


misa

From Portuguese missa (“mass”), from Old Galician-Portuguese missa, from Late Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin mittō (“I send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).


misa

Borrowed from Spanish misa, from Late Latin missa.


aba

lv-noun

aba m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

gender (irregular)
aba (nominative singular)
abas (nominative plural)
abu (accusative singular)
abas (accusative plural)
abas (genitive singular)
abu (genitive plural)
abam (dative singular)
abai (dative singular)
abām (dative plural)
abu (instrumental singular)
abām (instrumental plural)
abā (locative singular)
abās (locative plural)
aba (singular vocative)
abas (plural vocative)

(Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.


pere

Bourguignon: peire

desctree

Middle French: pere
French: père
→ Dutch: pere
→ English: père
Norman: père, pére, péthe

Walloon: pere

From earlier pedre, from Latin pater, patrem.

(Christianity, may be capitalized) Father (God)


hope

en-noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope.

hope springs eternal in the human breast

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:13:

(Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.


virgin

From Middle English virgine, from Old French virgine, from Latin virginem, accusative of virgō. Doublet of Virgo. Displaced native Old English fǣmne.

In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.

This was the relation of the order of virgins to the Church from the latter part of the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century. The modern “sister” had no exact prototype in the Church of the first seven centuries.

1894, Authorized Report of the Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ..., page 109:

The list of saints' days and festivals includes a number of the Romish holidays, properly so called, viz.: Lucian, priest and martyr, Jan. 8 ; Hilary, bishop and confessor, Jan. 13 ; Prisca, virgin and martyr, Jan. 18 ; Fabian, bishop and martyr, Jan. 20 ; Agnes, virgin and martyr, Jan. 21 […]

1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, page 26:

It is evident that those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from monks; or if not from the order of monks, then they are wont to be made priests who keep themselves from their wives […].

1900, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Second Series, page 366:

It ought to have become apparent, however, that the well-established order of widows was the model for the newly developing order of virgins. Both orders earned their legitimization from the way of life adopted by their members […]

1994, Susanna Elm, `Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 174:

According to Jerome's account, a young man, who desired to seduce a consecrated virgin of the church, at first attempted to do so through the standard means of seduction: namely, “with touching, jokes, nods, whistles, and the rest” (Vit. Hil. 21.2670–75).

2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, BRILL, →ISBN, page 89:

Grant, O Lord, I beseech thee, that the Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, may solicit thy mercy for us. I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.

2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press:

(Catholicism, Orthodoxy or historical) Someone vowed to virginity (usually a woman and often a consecrated virgin), or someone who died in defense of their virginity; (especially) one venerated as a saint.


NO

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Novus Ordo.


res

office (required liturgy to be recited each day)


gloria

gloria (nominative singular)
glorie (nominative plural)
glorii (genitive singular)
glorii (genitive plural)
gloryj (archaic genitive plural)
glorii (dative singular)
gloriom (dative plural)
glorię (accusative singular)
glorie (accusative plural)
glorią (instrumental singular)
gloriami (instrumental plural)
glorii (locative singular)
gloriach (locative plural)
glorio (singular vocative)
glorie (plural vocative)

(art, Christianity) aureole, glory, halo, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints in sacred art)


station

→ Hindi: स्टेशन (sṭeśan)

→ Irish: stáisiún

→ Malay: stesen

desc

ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Punjabi: سٹیشن/ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Scottish Gaelic: stèisean

→ Swahili: stesheni

→ Urdu: سْٹیشَن (sṭeśan), اِسْٹیشَن (isṭeśan)

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).

Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross

(Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.

(Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.

1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester:

(Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.


prose

en-noun

prose (usually uncountable, plural proses)

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
further etymology and related terms
The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“I turn”). Compare verse.

der

Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.

(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.


seal

en-verb

seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)

seals (present singular third-person)
sealing (participle present)
sealed (participle past)
sealed (past)

From Middle English sele, from Anglo-Norman sëel, from Latin sigillum, a diminutive of signum (“sign”).
Doublet of sigil and sigillum.

What was that office, or work, to which his Father sealed him? I answer, more generally, he was sealed to the whole work of mediation for us, thereby to recover and save all the elect, whom the Father had given him:

1836, John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671, page 44:

Perfectly so, I tell thee, of the sealed people who have come in through unbelief, pretending themselves to be children of the kingdom, that they are sealed to be heirs of the promise, but have come in as thieves and robbers.

1861, Joanna Southcott, Lavinia Elizabeth C. Jones, The scriptures of the holy Trinity, page 88:

Let us all strive to get ourselves sealed to redemption, seeing God doth seal those whom he will deliver in that great day; if we be not in this number, we shall not escape damnation.

1866, Paul Baynes, An Entire Commentary Upon the Whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians, page 81:

Thus these representatives of humanity are first sealed to help with the final work of salvation.

2015, Uchenna Mezue, Hidden In Plain Sight: A Study of the Revelation to John:

(Christianity) To form a sacred commitment.


preface

Late 14th century, from Middle English preface, prefas, from Old French preface (from which derives the modern French préface), from Medieval Latin prefātia, for classical Latin praefātiō (“a saying beforehand”), from praefor (“to speak beforehand”), from prae- (“beforehand”) + for (“to speak”).

Meronyms: protocol, embolism, eschatocol

(Christianity) A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.


octave

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

[…] the Chamberlains' records of the companies' visits to their towns are, for the most part, not precisely dates, but merely group them together […] within their annual accounting period which normally […] ran from Michaelmas (29 September) to Michaelmas, or its octave (6 October).

2000, John Southworth, Shakespeare the Player:

It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.

2014, Jennifer Gregory Miller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.

1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale
Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.

(Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.


pala

Borrowed from Latin pāla (“shovel, bezel”). Doublet of pá.

bor+

(Christianity) pall (piece used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist)


ark

→ Maori: āka

From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.


Biblia

Biblia (nominative singular)
Biblii (genitive singular)
Biblii (dative singular)
Biblię (accusative singular)
Biblią (instrumental singular)
Biblii (locative singular)
Biblio (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía).

(Christianity) the Bible (Christian holy book)


Biblia

From Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “books”).


primer

US, irregular, but common; borrowed from Etymology 2

From Middle English primer, primere, from Medieval Latin primarius and primarium (“prayer book”) possibly via Anglo-Norman primer (“prayer book”), from prima (“prime the liturgical hour and office”) + -arius and -arium (suffix forming related objects). Its use for schoolbooks derived from the late medieval and early modern use of such prayer books to teach reading.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="la">-arium</i> (suffix forming related objects).

(historical, Catholicism ecclesiastical) A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.

Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer

(historical, Protestantism ecclesiastical) Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.


pastor

pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

(Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.

Coordinate term: parochial vicar

(Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.


pastor

en-verb

pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)

pastors (present singular third-person)
pastoring (participle present)
pastored (participle past)
pastored (past)

As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.

2009 January 21, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times:

(Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) To serve a congregation as pastor


pastor

[pɐs̪ˈt̪oɾ̪]

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastores.


pastor

id-noun

pastor (plural pastor-pastor, first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)

pastor-pastor (plural)
pastorku (first-person possessive)
pastormu (possessive second-person)
pastornya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

der

(Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest


pastor

fro-noun

pastor oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)

pastor oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
pastors (oblique plural)
pastre (nominative singular)
pastor (nominative plural)

French: pasteur

Norman: pâteu'

→ Middle English: pastour

English: pastor

Borrowed from Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.


pastor

pastor (nominative singular)
pastorzy (nominative plural)
pastorowie (nominative plural)
pastory (derogatory nominative plural)
pastora (genitive singular)
pastorów (genitive plural)
pastorowi (dative singular)
pastorom (dative plural)
pastora (accusative singular)
pastorów (accusative plural)
pastorem (instrumental singular)
pastorami (instrumental plural)
pastorze (locative singular)
pastorach (locative plural)
pastorze (singular vocative)
pastorzy (plural vocative)
pastorowie (plural vocative)
pastory (derogatory plural vocative)

(Protestantism) pastor (in Protestant churches)


pastor

pt-noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

pastores (plural)
pastora (feminine)
pastoras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.

(Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson


pastor

pastori (plural)
pastor (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
pastorul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pastori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
pastorii (accusative definite nominative plural)
pastor (indefinite singular)
pastorului (definite singular)
pastori (indefinite plural)
pastorilor (definite plural)
pastorule (singular vocative)
pastorilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pāstor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.


pastor

tl-noun

pastór (feminine pastora, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)

pastór (canonical)
pastora (feminine)
ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔ (Baybayin)

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastol, an early borrowing.


good news

en:the message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful

(Christianity) The message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful, as elaborated in the Gospels.


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

der

(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.


prior

From Middle English priour, prior (“head or deputy head of a monastery or other religious house; predecessor; superior”), from Old English prior, from Anglo-Norman priour, prior, priur, and Old French prior, priur (modern French prieur), and directly from their etymon Latin prior (“ancestor; predecessor”) (whence Late Latin prior (“superior of a religious house or order; abbot; deputy abbot; head of a guild”)), a noun use of prior (“former, previous, prior”, adjective): see etymology 1.

cog

(abbot’s deputy):

It is not yet an hundred yere a goe, ſince that ſame mayſter doctour was butler in the ſame houſe, whereof I was maiſter and praiour: […]

1532, Thomas More, “The Confutacion of [William] Tyndale’s Aunswere […]. The Eyght Booke in which is Confuted Doctour [Robert] Barnes Church.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 791, column 1:

(Christianity) A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.

In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.

прыёр

in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy

The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.

priori

head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery

The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.

priori

[I]t hath appertained to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for the space of four hundred years or thereabouts to have spiritual jurisdiction over all your Grace's subjects dwelling within the provinces; […] in the meantime of vacation the same privilege resteth in the churches of Canterbury and York; and is executed by the prior, dean and chapter of the said churches; […]

1856, James Anthony Froude, “The Parliament of 1529”, in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, pages 216–217:

An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.


prior

pt-noun

prior m (plural priores, feminine priora or prioresa, feminine plural prioras or prioresas)

priores (plural)
priora (feminine)
prioresa (feminine)
prioras (feminine plural)
prioresas (feminine plural)

(Catholicism) prior (superior of a religious or military order.)


hostie

Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia.

1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40,
This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity.

But he went to another Prieſt, that lived in the Court, who gave him the pix with an hoſtie in it.

1725, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reign of King Charles II: Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, page 1011:

The confessor gave him an hostie,* with a piece of wood, that was, as he pretended, a true piece of the cross, and by these he was to be fortify himself, if any other apparition should come to him, since evil spirits would certainly be chained up by them.[…]The friar presented the hostie to them, which gave them such a check, that he was fully satisfied of the virtue of this preservative.

1836, Church of England, Extraordinary Instance of Romish Imposition: The Church of England Magazine, volume 1, page 349:

(obsolete, Catholicism, Scotland) the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.


hostie

nl-noun

hostie f (plural hosties, diminutive hostietje n)

hosties (plural)
hostietje (diminutive neuter)

(Christianity) host (consecrated bread / wafer)


hostie

hostii (plural)
hostie (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
hostia (accusative definite nominative singular)
hostii (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
hostiile (accusative definite nominative plural)
hostii (indefinite singular)
hostiei (definite singular)
hostii (indefinite plural)
hostiilor (definite plural)
hostie (singular vocative)
hostio (singular vocative)
hostiilor (plural vocative)

(Christianity) host, The consecrated bread


cena

(Christianity, often capitalized) Ellipsis of Santa Cena; Last Supper


주

Clipping of 천주 ("God"), from Sino-Tibetan 天主.


성

Sino-Korean word from 聖, from the Middle Korean reading 셔ᇰ〯 (Yale: syěng).

성 베드로


imam

From Malay imam, from Arabic إمام (ʔimām, “leader, imam”).


oblate

From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), a nominal use of the past participle of offerō (“I offer”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.


hod

English: hade, hede (obsolete)

Scots: hade (obsolete)

Inherited from Old English hād, from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz.

(Christianity) The Trinity; the three hypostases making up the Godhead.


nones

From Latin nōnus (“ninth”).
As a day of the Roman calendar, via nōnae (“ninth days”) from the original Roman practice of counting forward to the next full or new crescent moon, the nones' occurrence 8 days before the ides of every month (9 counting inclusively) following the establishment of a fixed calendar, and from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. Some scholars believe the name is a variant of the nundines (nūndinae fēriae (“ninth-day festival”)), the Roman market days held every eight days (9 counting inclusively), which were likely announced for each coming month by the Roman kings on the first-quarter days.
As a time of day, via the plural form of Middle English, Anglo-Norman, & French none and Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) after the manner of earlier matins, vespers, etc. As a meal, from the time of day, whether from its plural, genitive, or the occasional adverbial sense of -s.

The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.

(Christianity) The divine office appointed to the hour.


simar

Borrowed from French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer.

(Christianity) A type of ecclesiastical vestment, similar to a cassock.


lavabo

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lavabo.wav

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

(Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.

These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.

1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, page 203:

(Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.


prim

(Christianity) Prime, the divine office appointed for the hour in the liturgy


schema

Unadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.

(Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.


synod

From Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”) – from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).
Compare also with the term סַנְהֶדְרִין (“sunédrion”) common throughout Hebrew Talmudic literature.

bor

Addressing a number of previously taboo topics, this synod could result in several liberalizing reforms, though there is no guarantee that it will produce anything at all.

2023 October 2, Jason Horowitz, Elisabetta Povoledo, “What Is a Synod in the Catholic Church? And Why Does This One Matter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Christianity) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

(Christianity) An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America


synod

synod (nominative singular)
synody (nominative plural)
synodu (genitive singular)
synodów (genitive plural)
synodowi (dative singular)
synodom (dative plural)
synod (accusative singular)
synody (accusative plural)
synodem (instrumental singular)
synodami (instrumental plural)
synodzie (locative singular)
synodach (locative plural)
synodzie (singular vocative)
synody (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French synode, from Ecclesiastical Latin synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos).

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) synod (ecclesiastic council or meeting)


antinomian

From Medieval Latin Antinomi, from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”) + νόμος (nómos, “custom, law”).

"He was called by many persons an antinomian, though his life was exemplary."

1886, J. H. Thorpe, "John Brine" entry in Dictionary of National Biography:

(Christianity, Judaism) One who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism.

antinomisti

one who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism


fête

→ English: fête

→ German: Fete

→ Polish: feta

Inherited from Middle French feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

Le 18 mai, c’est la fête des Éric.

May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.


canonization

en-noun

canonization (countable and uncountable, plural canonizations)

(Christianity) The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.


consubstantiation

(Christianity) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation, as opposed to transubstantiation.

consubstanciación

the presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament


valid

en-adj

valid (comparative more valid, superlative most valid)

more valid (comparative)
most valid (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French valide (“healthy, sound, in good order”), from Latin validus, from valeō (“I am strong, I am healthy, I am worth”) + -idus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”).

der

(Christianity, theology) Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.


pall

From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.

(Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).

By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]

1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section II. The Seventh Century.”, in The Church-history of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: Printed for Iohn Williams, →OCLC; The Church History of Britain, […] In Three Volumes, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, […], 1842, →OCLC, section 38 (What a Pall is), page 107:

Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.

1840, [Elizabeth Stone], “Needlework of the Dark Ages”, in Countess of Wilton [i.e., Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton], editor, The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages; including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 66:

(Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).


deification

en-noun

deification (usually uncountable, plural deifications)

From Middle English deificacion, from Middle French deifier + -acion or borrowed directly from Latin deificātiō, from deificō (“deify”) + -tiō (noun suffix), from deus (“god”) + -ficō (“make”). Equivalent to deify + -ication. In the Christian theological sense influenced by the use of deificātiō as Latin translation of Byzantine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

euhemerization

act of deifying; chiefly Chinese contexts

There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.

2010, Paul M. Collins, Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion, page 108:

(Christianity, theology) Union with God; theosis.


dispensation

dispensation (countable and uncountable, plural dispensations)

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō.

تَحِلَّة

[H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 5–6:

Why, there has gone already to Rome a messenger to crave a second dispensation from his Popeship, and the King himself hath signed the request, praying that you and I should graciously be permitted to wed!

1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, May Margaret: called "the fair maid of Galloway," - Page 184:

The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

(Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).


domination

domination (countable and uncountable, plural dominations)

/ˌdɒməˈneɪʃən/

/ˌdɑːməˈneɪʃən/

From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

The succession of orders given in this passage is not exactly the same as in the succeeding chapters, in which it is as follows: -- Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones; Dominations, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, Angels.

1872, The Sacristy: A Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature, page 20:

According to Dionysius, the dominations have the duty in the heavenly host of regulating the tasks of the angels and "through them the majesty of God is manifested." Through the efforts of the dominations - who are naturally seen only rarely by mortals -- the very order of the cosmos is maintained.

2010, Matthew Bunson, Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host, →ISBN, page 80:

(Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.


elevation

elevation (countable and uncountable, plural elevations)

/ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃən/

From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.


incarnation

French: incarnation

From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem.

bor

(Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.


invitation

en-noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

From Middle English invitacioun, ynvytacioun, from Latin invītātio, reinforced by Middle French invitation. Displaced native Middle English lathinge from Old English laþung (see dialectal English lathing).

(Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.


midweek

From mid- + week. Compare Saterland Frisian Midwiek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Low German Middeweek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Mittwoch (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”).

cog

This Wednesday is churchwide midweek; men's is the next one.

(Christianity, Latter-Day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, informal) Midweek worship service, held by many congregations and in addition to a Sunday morning service.


revival

en-noun

revival (countable and uncountable, plural revivals)

(religion) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

(Christianity) A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.


server

→ Danish: server

→ Dutch: server

→ German: Server

→ Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)

→ Hungarian: szerver

→ Italian: server m

→ Japanese: サーバー (sābā)

→ Korean: 서버 (seobeo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar

→ Persian: سرور

→ Polish: serwer

→ Portuguese: server

→ Romanian: server n

→ Russian: се́рвер (sérver)

desc

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Turkish: server

From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.

(Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.


moderate

From Middle English moderat, from Latin moderātus, perfect active participle of moderor (“regulate, restrain, moderate”), from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus (“moderate, discreet, modest”), from modus (“measure”); see mode and modest. Doublet of moderato. Displaced native Old English ġemetlīċ (“moderate”) and metegian (“to moderate”).

(Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.


diptych

From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).

(Christianity) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.

díptic

double catalogue of ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church


Holy Land

(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.

اَلْأَرْض اَلْمُقَدَّسَة

that part of Asia in which most Biblical events are set


Old Testament

From Middle English [Term?], calqued from Latin Vetus Testāmentum. Old refers to ancientness, not to obsolescence. Equivalent to a retronym, by comparison with the New Testament.

The Old Testament says that eating shellfish is a sin.

(religion, chiefly Christianity) The first major part of the Christian Bible, covering events before the coming of Christ, corresponding roughly to the Jewish Tanakh. Usually subdivided into the categories of law, history, poetry (or wisdom books), and prophecy.


(Christianity, astronomy): A globus cruciger (the globe surmounted by a Christian cross), representing Christ's or the Church's rule over the redeemed world. Alchemical extension to newly-discovered antimony, motivated by an attempt to retain an association between the basic metals and the known planets. Astronomical use is reinforced by the graphic similarity to the symbol ⟨♀⟩ for Venus, which is the planet that is most similar to Earth.

(Christianity) the redeemed world (a symbol that was carried by depictions of Jesus and medieval Christian kings).


G-d

הַשֵּׁם

the name; literally a Hebrew phrase used for the same reasons

[…] after ſome pauſe, his rage for a while depriving him of utterance, he took out his pen-knife, and opening it, vehemently ſwore, with this very pen-knife, by G—d, will I cut off his ears.

1784, Thomas Sheridan, “Section VII.”, in The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, London: […] C[harles] Bathurst, W[illiam] Strahan, B. Collins, […], pages 438–439:

[…] having made a cross cut, so as to ascertain the depth of the fat upon the chest, exclaimed, in a sort of rapture, “Three inches of white fat on the brisket!—prime—prime, as I am a crowded sinner—and de’il ane o’ the lazy loons in but mysell! Seven—aught—aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season![…]”

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 85:

The designer, in essence, is G-d--it is s/he who creates the geography of the world (It took me six months to design the world for Lords and Wizards ((Adam's fantasy boardgame, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited-tpg))...guess I'm a slow worker, because it took you-know-how six days.).

1978 May 29, Adam L. Gruen, “Fantasy Game Design”, in Thomas Philip Gould, editor, Lilaf, number 9, New York, N.Y.: FWS Publications, page 3:

(dated, Christianity) Censored spelling of God in contexts perceived as blasphemous.


Христос

head

Хри́стос • (Hrístos) m

Хри́стос (canonical)
Hrístos (romanization)


New Testament

Holonym: Bible

Muslims believe that the Final Testament, the Quran, is a continuation of the New Testament.

(biblical, Christianity) The second half of the Christian Bible, which includes the four Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelation.


patriarch

/ˈpeɪtɹɪɑːk/

/ˈpeɪt͡ʃɹiɑɹk/

From Middle English patriark, patriarche, from Late Latin patriarcha; later reinforced by Old French patriarche, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -ᾰ́ρχης (-árkhēs, “-arch”), with some senses likely influenced directly by Latin pāter (“father”) or Ancient Greek πᾰτήρ (patḗr, “father”). Compare matriarch. By surface analysis, patri- + -arch.

der

(Christianity) The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank.


old man

en-noun

old man (countable and uncountable, plural old men)

From Middle English alde mann, aldman, elde man, oldeman, from Old English eald man.

A new light has entered into the life and transformed it wonderfully, the soul has been born again, the old man has been put off, the new man which is akin to Jesus Christ has been put on.

1906 [1890 November], Richard Acland Armstrong, “What must I do to be saved?”, in George Gilbert Armstrong, editor, Richard Acland Armstrong: A Memoir, Green, page 155:

(Christianity) The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.


Baal

en-proper noun

Baal (countable and uncountable, plural Baals or Baalim)

From Late Latin Baal (as in the Vulgate) and Ancient Greek Βάαλ (Báal); from Hebrew בַּעַל (bá`al, “lord, husband, owner”), Phoenician 𐤁𐤏𐤋 (bʿl, “lord, master, owner”) and Ugaritic 𐎁𐎓𐎍 (baʿlu, “lord, owner”), all from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- (“owner, lord, husband”).

der

(Christianity) One of the demons or fallen angels of Satan.


Marian

en-adj

Marian (comparative more Marian, superlative most Marian)

more Marian (comparative)
most Marian (superlative)

a Marian apparition

Marian devotions

When, e.g., Dr. Pusey and others tell him, on à priori grounds, that his constant and unintermitting worship of Mary lessens his simple trust in Jesus, such a statement can only elicit from him amazement and pity; because he knows, as a matter most strictly within his own personal cognisance, that Marian devotion is among his most efficacious helps for growing in the knowledge and the love of God.

1867, E. Pusey, “Dr. Pusey on Ecclesiastical Unity”, in The Dublin Review, volume 8, page 84:

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Virgin Mary.


Johan

Asturian: Xuan

Leonese: Xuan

Mirandese: Juan, Joan

e si elli non for ay dallos cada fiesta de Sant Johan Babtista

and if him weren't able to give him (the money) each festivy of Saint John the Baptist

(biblical, Christianity) The name of several persons in the Christian Bible, among them John the Baptist, John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos.


Johan

desctree

Spanish: Juan
→ Carolinian: Wan
→ Classical Nahuatl: Juan
→ Chinese: → 胡安 (Hú'ān) (transliteration)
Don Juan → Chinese: → 唐璜 (transliteration)
→ English: Juan
→ Tagalog: Juan

From Latin Iōhannēs or Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān).

der

Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān)

Delãt ierico a .ij. milleros en la riƀa del flum iordan es bethania o baptizaua ſant ioħn baptiſta.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r:

Two thousand paces from Jericho, on the bank of the Jordan River, is Bethany, where Saint John the Baptist baptized.


jardin

Fala: jardín

Galician: xardín

Portuguese: jardim

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *gardô
Frankish *gardōbor.
Early Medieval Latin gardīnus
Old French gardinbor.
Old Galician-Portuguese jardin
Borrowed from Old French gardin (“garden, enclosure”), probably from Vulgar Latin or early Gallo-Romance hortus gardinus, from Old Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardo (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”).

der

[…]a Loemos que nos meta no iardi[n] / de ſeu fille que nos guarde do mui grand fogỹfernal.

13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 235 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/425small.gif] facsimile]):

[…] let us praise Her so that She will admit us to the garden of Her Son (=Heaven) and save us from the great fire of Hell.


Mattathias

/ˌmætəˈθaɪ.əs/

From the Latin Mattathiās, from the Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς (Mattathíās), from the Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū). Doublet of Matthew.

uder

מַתִּתְיָהוּ

vvho vvas of Matthathias, vvho vvas of Amos, vvho vvas of Naum, vvho vvas of Heſli, vvho vvas of Naggé,

1582, The Nevv Teſtament of Ieſus Chriſt, tranſlated faithfully into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (first edition), The Holy Goſpel of Ieſus Chriſt according to Luke iii:25 (page 144)

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew — famously held by:

(Christianity, in Luke’s genealogy of Christ) The son of Amos and father of Joseph, six-times-great–grandfather of Jesus.

vvho vvas of Mahath, vvho vvas of Matthathias, vvho vvas of Semei, vvho vvas of Ioſeph, vvho vvas of Iuda,

1582, The Nevv Teſtament of Ieſus Chriſt, tranſlated faithfully into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (first edition), The Holy Goſpel of Ieſus Chriſt according to Luke iii:26 (page 144)

(Christianity, in Luke’s genealogy of Christ) The son of Semei and father of Mahath, twelve-times-great–grandfather of Jesus.

In thoſe dayes aroſe Mathathias the ſonne of Iohn, the ſonne of Simeon, prieſt of the ſonnes of Ioarib from Ieruſalem, and he ſate in the mountayne of Modin: and he had fiue ſonnes, Iohn who was ſurnamed Gaddis: and Simon, who was ſurnamed Thaſi: and Iudas, who was called Machabeus: and Eleazar, who was ſurnamed Abaron: and Ionathan, who was ſurnamed Apphus.

1610, The ſecond tome of the Holie Bible faithfully tranſlated into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (first edition), The Firſt Booke of Macabees ii:1–5 (page 896)

(Judaism and Christianity) A Jewish priest featured in the second chapter of 1 Maccabees, instigator of the Maccabean Revolt and progenitor of the Hasmonean dynasty.


Mattathias

la-proper noun

Mattathiās m sg (genitive Mattathiae); first declension

Mattathiās (canonical masculine singular)
Mattathiae (genitive)
Mattathiās (nominative singular)
Mattathiae (genitive singular)
Mattathiae (dative singular)
Mattathiān (accusative singular)
Mattathiā (ablative singular)
Mattathiā (singular vocative)

English: Mattathias

Polish: Matatiasz

[mät̪ˈt̪ät̪ʰiäːs̠]

[mät̪ˈt̪äːt̪iäs]

From the Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς (Mattathíās), from the Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).

der

מַתִּתְיָהוּ

In diebus illis ſurrexit Mathathias filius Ioannis, filij Simeonis, ſacerdos ex filijs Ioarib ab Ieruſalem, & conſedit in monte Modin: & habebat filios quinque, Ioannem, qui cognominabatur Gaddis: & Simeonem, qui cognominabatur Thaſi: & Iudã, qui vocabatur Machabæus: & Eleazarum, qui cognominabatur Abaron: & Ionathan, qui cognominabatur Apphus.
In thoſe dayes aroſe Mathathias the ſonne of Iohn, the ſonne of Simeon, prieſt of the ſonnes of Ioarib from Ieruſalem, and he ſate in the mountayne of Modin: and he had fiue ſonnes, Iohn who was ſurnamed Gaddis: and Simon, who was ſurnamed Thaſi: and Iudas, who was called Machabeus: and Eleazar, who was ſurnamed Abaron: and Ionathan, who was ſurnamed Apphus. ― translation from: The ſecond tome of the Holie Bible faithfully tranſlated into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (1610), The Firſt Booke of Macabees ii:1–5 (page 896)

1592, Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. juſſu recognita atque edita (first edition), Liber Primus Machabæorum ij:1–5 (page 852)

a male given name from Hebrew — famously held by:

(Judaism and Christianity) Mattathias (Jewish priest feat. in 1 Macc., instigator of the Maccabean Revolt and progenitor of the Hasmoneans)

qui fuit Mathathiæ, qui fuit Amos, qui fuit Nahum, qui fuit Heſli, qui fuit Nagge,
vvho vvas of Matthathias, vvho vvas of Amos, vvho vvas of Naum, vvho vvas of Heſli, vvho vvas of Naggé, ― translation from: The Nevv Teſtament of Ieſus Chriſt, tranſlated faithfully into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (1582), The Holy Goſpel of Ieſus Chriſt according to Luke iii:25 (page 144)

1592, Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. juſſu recognita atque edita (first edition), Sanctum Ieſu Chriſti Euangelium ſecundum Lucam iij:25 (page 952/1)

(Christianity) Mattathias (son of Amos and father of Joseph, 6×great-grandfather of Jesus)

qui fuit Mahath, qui fuit Mathathiæ, qui fuit Semei, qui fuit Ioſeph, qui fuit Iuda,
vvho vvas of Mahath, vvho vvas of Matthathias, vvho vvas of Semei, vvho vvas of Ioſeph, vvho vvas of Iuda, ― translation from: The Nevv Teſtament of Ieſus Chriſt, tranſlated faithfully into Engliſh, out of the authentical Latin (1582), The Holy Goſpel of Ieſus Chriſt according to Luke iii:26 (page 144)

1592, Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. juſſu recognita atque edita (first edition), Sanctum Ieſu Chriſti Euangelium ſecundum Lucam iij:26 (page 952/1)

(Christianity) Mattathias (son of Semei and father of Mahath, 12×great-grandfather of Jesus)


Randan

From Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān, “Ramadan”). The use of the word attests to the fact that—though Malta had been Christian before the Arab conquest—modern Maltese people mainly descend from converted Muslims. Arabic-speaking Christians otherwise use the terms اَلصَّوْمُ الْكَبِير (aṣ-ṣawmu l-kabīr, literally “great fast”) or صَوْمُ الْأَرْبَعِين (ṣawmu l-ʔarbaʕīn, literally “fast of the forty”). Compare also Għisa (obsolete for “Jesus”). Doublet of Ramadan.

(Christianity) Lent, the Christian time of fasting before Easter


free will

From Middle English fre will, fre wil, fre wille.

Some people deny that humans have free will, and argue that every thought and action is preordained by God.

You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.

What is free will but the power of volition and action, and of thought and speech, to all appearance as of one's self?

1869, Emmanuel Swedenborg, translated by R Norman Foster, The True Christian Religion:

The new challenge to free will comes from a different direction: neuroscience's discovery that people's brains are a collection of diversely oriented modules, and that our understanding of our own intentionality is to a great degree a legitimating fiction which one module in the left hemisphere of the brain retroactively imposes over the decisions different modules make.

2012 January 12, “Free will and politics”, in The Economist:

(philosophy, Christianity) The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc.


gospel

en-noun

gospel (countable and uncountable, plural gospels)

→ Japanese: ゴスペル (gosuperu)

From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ).

der

(Protestantism) The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.


soror

la-noun

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

sorōris (genitive)
soror (nominative singular)
sorōrēs (nominative plural)
sorōris (genitive singular)
sorōrum (genitive plural)
sorōrī (dative singular)
sorōribus (dative plural)
sorōrem (accusative singular)
sorōrēs (accusative plural)
sorōre (ablative singular)
sorōribus (ablative plural)
soror (singular vocative)
sorōrēs (plural vocative)

Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: suroră

Dalmatian:

seraur

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: serore, sorore

North Italian:

Istriot: sorura

Old Lombard: seror

Lombard: seror

Old Venetan: sorore

Piedmontese: sëror (Biella, Val Sesia)

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: seror

Old French: seror, serur

Occitano-Romance:

Old Occitan: seror

Gascon: seror

→ Old Spanish: seror

Borrowings:

→ Interlingua: soror

→ Portuguese: soror

Via nominative sŏror:

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: sor

Dalmatian:

saur

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: soro, suoro

Sicilian: soru

North Italian:

Friulian: sûr

Lombard: sor

Old Emilian: sore

Old Ligurian: sor

Ligurian: seu

Old Venetan: sor

Old Piedmontese: suor

Piedmontese: seur, seure

Romansch: sour

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: suèr

Old French: suer

French: sœur

Norman: soeu

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: sor

→ Spanish: sor

Occitan:

Auvergnat: sòrre, suerre

Gascon: sòr

Languedocien: sòrre, sòr

Provençal: sòrre

Vivaro-Alpine: sór, sòrre

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: sorre (Logudorese), sorri (Campidanese)

Borrowings:

→ English: soror

Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: sorã

Megleno-Romanian: soră

Romanian: soră

Italo-Romance:

Italian: sora, suora ⇒ sorella

q

Neapolitan: sora (dialectal plural serure < *serōrēs < sorōrēs)

North Italian:

Piedmontese: seura

Romansch: sora

⇒ Venetan: sorela, soreła

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: suèra

From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


Quadragesima

/ˌkwɒdɹəˈdʒɛsɪmə/

From Latin Quadrāgēsima (“Lent”), from feminine substantive use of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”), from the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter using inclusive counting and excluding Sundays.

Quadragesima Sunday
Quadragesima Sunday#English

(Christianity) Synonym of Quadragesima Sunday: the first Sunday in Lent.


Saint Nicholas

(Christianity) A 4th-century Greek bishop from Myra, Anatolia, patron saint of children, mariners and the unwed among others, functioning in multiple countries as a gift-giving figure around his feast day of December 6.

Shën Nikolla

4th-century Greek bishop, patron of children and mariners


deus

Galician: deus

Portuguese: deus (see there for further descendants)

From Latin deus (“god”). See deus for more information.

Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan.

13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 3 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/057small.html] facsimile])

Through her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.


Χριστός

Christós (romanization)
Χριστός (nominative singular)
Χριστού (genitive singular)
Χριστό (accusative singular)
Χριστέ (singular vocative)

From Byzantine Greek, from Koine Greek, from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós).

Coordinate term: (male given name) Χρίστος (Chrístos)

(Christianity) Jesus Christ (the Messiah named Jesus)


immaculate

en-adj

immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)

more immaculate (comparative)
most immaculate (superlative)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Museo del Prado

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₁- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
cognates
* Catalan immaculat
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)
* Portuguese imaculado
* Spanish inmaculado

ref

From the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

perfek

containing no mistakes — see also flawless

(Roman Catholicism) Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.

onbevlekte

of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled — see also undefiled


fundamentalist

From fundamental + -ist, after a book series called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth“ (1910).

(Christianity) Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles.

fundamentalisti

adherent of a certain American Christian movement


nativity

en-noun

nativity (countable and uncountable, plural nativities)

From Middle English nativite, from Anglo-Norman nativite, Middle French nativite, and their source, Latin nātīvitās (“birth”). See also naïveté.

Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the said statute of repeal, and every thing therein contained […] shall be void and of none effect, from, and after the feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist, next coming.

1559, “An Act for the uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and the administration of the Sacraments”, in William Keatinge Clay, editor, Liturgical Services: Liturgies and occasional forms of prayer set forth in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge University Press, published 1847, page 27:

1624, will of Edmond Heywood of the parish of Christchurch London, cited in Katharine Lee Bates, “A Conjecture as to Thomas Heywood’s Family,” The Journal of English and German Philology, Volume 12, 1913, p. 96,
Alsoe I give to the poore of the parish of Christchurch The some of Sixe poundes to be disposed of in this sorte that is to saie, three poundes thereof in Bread on the daie of my funeralle and the other three poundes in bread alsoe on the feast of the Nativitie of our lord then next followinge […]

Occasionally, too, he ventured to bring her some ghostly present—such as a picture of the Madonna and child, or one of those little naked images which are hawked about the streets at the nativity.

1835, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Martin Franc and the Monk of St. Anthony”, in Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, volume I, New York: Harper & Bros., pages 33–34:

The earliest mention of the 25th of December as Christmas Day is found in an ancient catalogue of Church festivals about A.D. 354. And it is surprising to see with what alacrity the date was received and the Nativity celebrated throughout Christendom.

1894, Henry van Dyke, The Christ-Child in Art: A Study of Interpretation, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 61:

The edition of 1564 contains 23 festival days, the following being a list in Kalendar order. […] 24 June—Nativity of John Baptist; […] 8 Sept.—Nativity of Mary […]

1956, John A. Lamb, The Kalendar of The Book of Common Order, 1564-1644, page 19:

(Christianity, also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.


archimandrite

/ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/

Borrowed from French archimandrite, from Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “highest”) + μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosure, cloister, monastery”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “member of”).

uder

ἀρχιμανδρίτης

(Eastern Orthodoxy, rarely Catholicism) An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.


pasko

eo-head

pasko (accusative singular paskon, plural paskoj, accusative plural paskojn)

paskon (accusative singular)
paskoj (plural)
paskojn (accusative plural)

From Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פסחא (pasḥa), from Hebrew פסח. Doublet of Pesaĥo. Compare French Pâques.

La “letero al diplomatio”, skribita dum la pasko 1915, estis lia cigno-kanto.

c. 1929, Ernest Drezen, “Lasta tragedio de Zamenhof”, in Zamenhof, Omnibus Typografi, published 2000, →ISBN, page 24:

Resurekto kaj pasko estas la plej gravaj okazintaĵoj en la ortodoksa kredo, sed ĉe Tolstoj ne temas pri tiu resurekto aŭ iu transmonda miraklo.

2000, Wolfgang Kirschstein, “Tolstoj instigas ankoraŭ hodiaŭ”, in La Ondo de Esperanto, volume 11, number 73, archived from the original on 2013-05-11:


end times

And I can hear it loud and clear / The world is ending, and what do I care? / She's gone, end times are here

2010, Mark Oliver Everett (lyrics and music), “End Times”, performed by Eels:

Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview that Mr. Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.

2020 January 22, Elizabeth Dias, “Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88”, in The New York Times:

(Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.

ахырызаман

the days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah

Hellenistic Judaism was familiar with the idea that deceit is characteristic of the end times (see T. Levi 10:2; 16:1).

2002, Raymond F. Collins, I & II Timothy and Titus: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 113:

The apocalyptic writings are at times quite fascinating, especially since they stand in some relationship to the apocalyptic visions of the end times found in both the OT and NT.

2002, Larry R. Helyer, Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 22:

(Christianity) Corresponding periods in other religious traditions.


antichrist

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντίχριστος (antíkhristos).

der

(chiefly Christianity) Antichrist (the false messiah appearing in the book of Revelation)


antichrist

Afrikaans: antichris


eucharistic

en-adj

eucharistic (comparative more eucharistic, superlative most eucharistic)

more eucharistic (comparative)
most eucharistic (superlative)

The eucharistic sacrament.

1849, George Cornewall Lewis, An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion:

(Christianity) Pertaining to the Eucharist.


papist

From Middle French papiste, from Latin pāpa (“pope”).

(religious slur, Christianity) A Roman Catholic, especially one whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.


papist

papist (comparative more papist, superlative most papist)

more papist (comparative)
most papist (superlative)

However, Menem promptly surprised many observers (and most of his voters) by forming an alliance with Alsogaray, and becoming more papist than the Pope in economic orthodoxy.

2011, Jill Hedges, Argentina: A Modern History:

(religious slur, Christianity) Roman Catholic.


Gabriel

[ɡa.bɾɪˈɛʊ̯]

[ɡɐˈβɾjɛ.li]

(Christianity, Judaism) Gabriel (archangel who carries messages from God)


deicide

en-noun

deicide (countable and uncountable, plural deicides)

(Christianity, theology) The crucifixion of Jesus, viewed as a crime.


institution

institution (countable and uncountable, plural institutions)

/ˌɪnstɪˈtʃuːʃən/

From Middle English institucioun, from Old French institution, from Latin institūtiō, from instituō (“to set up”), from in- (“in, on”) + statuō (“to set up, establish”).

(Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.


fara

farny (adjective)
fara (nominative singular)
fary (nominative plural)
fary (genitive singular)
far (genitive plural)
farze (dative singular)
farom (dative plural)
farę (accusative singular)
fary (accusative plural)
farą (instrumental singular)
farami (instrumental plural)
farze (locative singular)
farach (locative plural)
faro (singular vocative)
fary (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fara

→ Slovincian: fara

Borrowed from German Pfarre. First attested in 1553. Compare Silesian fara.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “fara”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(archaic, Christianity) parish church; parish (church that serves as the religious center of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches)

(Middle Polish, Christianity) parish (part of a diocese; costs associated with parish maintenance)


fara

szl-noun

fara f (diminutive farka, related adjective farski or farny)

farka (diminutive)
farski (adjective)
farny (adjective)
fara (nominative singular)
fary (nominative plural)
fary (genitive singular)
farōw (genitive plural)
farze (dative singular)
farōm (dative plural)
farã (accusative singular)
fary (accusative plural)
farōm (instrumental singular)
farami (instrumental plural)
farōma (instrumental plural)
farze (locative singular)
farach (locative plural)
faro (singular vocative)
fary (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Pfarre. Compare Polish fara.

(Christianity) rectory, presbytery (residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church)

(Christianity) parish (part of a diocese)


chapel

→ Japanese: チャペル (chaperu)

→ Korean: 채플 (chaepeul)

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

der

(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.


discipline

en-noun

discipline (countable and uncountable, plural disciplines)

spontaneity

antonym(s) of “controlled behaviour et al.”

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

فَرْع مِنَ الْمَعْرِفَة

specific branch or knowledge or learning

All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.

2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:

A punishment to train or maintain control.

(Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.

piiska

Catholicism: whip used for self-flagellation


Exodus

From Middle Dutch exodus, from Latin Exodus, from Koine Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos).

(Judaism, Christianity) Exodus (supposed departure of the Israelites from Egypt)

(Judaism, Christianity) Exodus (book of the Hebrew Bible)


communicate

en-verb

communicate (third-person singular simple present communicates, present participle communicating, simple past and past participle communicated)

communicates (present singular third-person)
communicating (participle present)
communicated (participle past)
communicated (past)

Borrowed from Latin commūnicātus, perfect passive participle of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of commune.

It seems that now [the Devil] was driving Alison hard. She had been remiss of late—fewer souls sent to hell, less zeal in quenching the Spirit, and, above all, the crowning offense that her bairn had communicated in Christ's kirk.

1899 January – 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Watcher by the Threshold”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 213:

The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 148:

(intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.

cumnic

to receive or take part in Holy Communion

[W]hen ſhe [the church] can underſtand that ſuch an emendation is made, and the man is really reformed, ſhe can pronounce him pardon'd, or vvhich is all one, ſhe may communicate him.

1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Repentance Preparatory to the Blessed Sacrament. Sect[ion] V. What Significations of Repentance are to be Accepted by the Church in Admission of Penitents to the Communion.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, pages 475–476:

(transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).


frontal

From Middle English frountel, from Old French frontel, from Latin frontāle (“a frontlet, metal band for the forehead”).

der

Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.

1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27:

(Christianity) A decorative drapery covering the front of an altar.


frontal

[fɾon̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese frontal, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin frontalis (“frontal”), from Latin frons.

lbor

(Christianity) frontal (a decorative drapery covering the front of an altar.)


pistol

pistol (nominative singular)
pistolas (nominative plural)
pistol (accusative singular)
pistolas (accusative plural)
pistoles (genitive singular)
pistola (genitive plural)
pistole (dative singular)
pistolum (dative plural)

desc

Middle English: pistel, pistle, pistell, pystyll

English: pistle

Scots: pistil, pistill, pistle

From Late Latin epistola, epistula. Compare Middle Dutch pistele, pistel, Middle Low German pistele, Middle High German pistel.

(religion, Christianity) letter, epistle

(religion, Christianity, biblical) an epistle of the New Testament


abito

Borrowed from Latin habitus (“habit, appearance”), a noun based on habeō (“have”).


mystery

en-noun

mystery (countable and uncountable, plural mysteries)

From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from μύστης (mústēs, “initiated one”), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μύω (múō, “I shut”). Displaced native Old English ġerȳne.

der

The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.

(Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

мисте́рия

an event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions


mis

From Dutch mis, from Middle Dutch misse, from Latin missa.


purification

en-noun

purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)

/ˌpjʊəɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Old French purificacion, from Latin pūrificātiō.

(Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.


declare

en-verb

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

declares (present singular third-person)
declaring (participle present)
declared (participle past)
declared (past)
declare (infinitive)

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

декларирам

to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".

(Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.

宣布

to affirm or state something emphatically


dismissal

en-noun

dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

(Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.


nebo

nebọ̑ (canonical neuter)
nebọ̑ (nominative singular)
nẹ̑bi (dual nominative)
nẹ̑ba (nominative plural)
nebȃ (genitive singular)
nẹ̑b (dual genitive)
nẹ̑b (genitive plural)
nẹ̑bu (dative singular)
nẹ̑bi (dative singular)
nẹ̑boma (dative dual)
nẹ̑bama (dative dual)
nẹ̑bom (dative plural)
nẹ̑bam (dative plural)
nebọ̑ (accusative singular)
nẹ̑bi (accusative dual)
nẹ̑ba (accusative plural)
nẹ̑bu (locative singular)
nẹ̑bi (locative singular)
nẹ̑bih (dual locative)
nẹ̑bah (dual locative)
nẹ̑bih (locative plural)
nẹ̑bah (locative plural)
nẹ̑bom (instrumental singular)
nẹ̑boma (dual instrumental)
nẹ̑bama (dual instrumental)
nẹ̑bi (instrumental plural)
nebọ̑ (singular vocative)
nẹ̑bi (dual vocative)
nẹ̑ba (plural vocative)
nebọ̑ (nominative singular)
nebẹ́si (dual nominative)
nebẹ́sa (nominative plural)
nebẹ́sa (genitive singular)
nebẹ̄s (dual genitive)
nebẹ̄s (genitive plural)
nebẹ́su (dative singular)
nebẹ́si (dative singular)
nebẹ́soma (dative dual)
nebẹ́sama (dative dual)
nebẹ́som (dative plural)
nebẹ́sam (dative plural)
nebọ̑ (accusative singular)
nebẹ́si (accusative dual)
nebẹ́sa (accusative plural)
nebẹ́su (locative singular)
nebẹ́si (locative singular)
nebẹ́sih (dual locative)
nebẹ́sih (locative plural)
nebẹ́som (instrumental singular)
nebẹ́soma (dual instrumental)
nebẹ́sama (dual instrumental)
nebẹ́si (instrumental plural)
nebọ̑ (singular vocative)
nebẹ̑si (dual vocative)
nebẹ̑sa (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

* obsolete; compare pluralia tantum nebesa

From Proto-Slavic *nebo, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos.

(Christianity, archaic, uncountable) heaven


archpriest

From Middle English archepreest, archeprest, archiprest, ercheprest, erchepreste; compare Old French archeprestre and Medieval Latin archipresbyter; equivalent to arch- + priest.

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.


tertiary

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
Lay Carmelites
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Saint-Étienne Cathedral
University of Cambridge

PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from the Latin tertiārius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós, whence English third) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire.

bor

Tertiaries living in places where there is no Church of the Order or of the Third Order can gain all the indulgences they would gain visiting such a church, by visiting their respective parish church, or, where there is no parochial church, by visiting another church or public oratory, and fulfilling the other conditions.

1952, Dominican Tertiaries’ Manual: For the Daily Use of Private and Fraternity Tertiaries of the Third Order of St. Dominic, 1st rev. edition, New York, N.Y.: Third Order of St. Dominic, published 1954, →OCLC, page 362:

Immediately after her arrival in Ferrara, while she was still striving to secure the foundation of her exemplary reformed community of Dominican tertiaries, [Lucia] Brocadelli also renewed her attempts to enhance [Girolamo] Savonarola's saintly reputation.

2008, Tamar Herzig, “The Power of Visions: Lucia Brocadelli and Osanna Andreasi”, in Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press; large print edition, Richmond, B.C.: ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd., 2010, page 146

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.

terziario

Roman Catholicism: member of a third order


jul

head

jul c (singular definite julen, plural indefinite jule)

julen (definite singular)
jule (indefinite plural)
jul (indefinite nominative singular)
julen (definite nominative singular)
jule (indefinite nominative plural)
julene (definite nominative plural)
juls (genitive indefinite singular)
julens (definite genitive singular)
jules (genitive indefinite plural)
julenes (definite genitive plural)

Norwegian Bokmål: jul

q

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: jul (partially from an earlier East Nordic borrowing)

→ German: Jul
→ Dutch: joel

⇒ German: Julfest
→ Dutch: joelfeest

→ Greenlandic: juulli

From Old Norse jól, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō.

(Christianity) Christmas (the time around 25 December)


motor

→ Persian: موتر (môtar)

→ Japanese: モーター (mōtā)

→ Korean: 모터 (moteo)

→ Burmese: မော်တော် (mautau)

→ Hausa: mōtā̀

→ Nupe: mátò

→ Yoruba: mọ́tò

→ Shanghainese: 馬達／马达 (mo⁶-da⁶)

→ Chinese: 馬達／马达 (mǎ dá)

→ Tibetan: མོ་ཊ (mo ṭa)

From Middle English motour (“controller, prime mover; God”), from Latin mōtor (“mover; that which moves something”), from mōtō (“I set in motion”).

der

(Christianity, archaic, poetic) The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.


Simon

[ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

From Latin Simon. Cognate with English Simon.


Natale

From Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”).


solemn

en-adj

solemn (comparative solemner or more solemn, superlative solemnest or most solemn)

solemner (comparative)
more solemn (comparative)
solemnest (superlative)
most solemn (superlative)

From Middle English solempne, solemne (“performed with religious ceremony or reverence; devoted to religious observances, sacred; ceremonious, formal; of a vow: made under a religious sanction, binding; religious celebration, celebration of a feast day; famous, well-known; important; grand, imposing; awe-inspiring, impressive; grave, serious; dignified; enunciated or held formally”) [and other forms], from Old French solempne, solemne (“serious, solemn”) [and other forms], or from its etymon Late Latin sōlempnis, sōlennis, from Latin sōlemnis, from sollemnis (“appointed, established, fixed; common, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional, usual; ceremonial, religious, solemn; festive; annual, yearly”) [and other forms]. The further etymology is uncertain; sollus (“entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + epulum (“banquet, feast”) (in the sense of a ritual; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) has been suggested.

nb...

solem, solemp, solempe, solempn, sollempne, solom, solen, solenne, sollen, sollene

(religion, specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.

церемониален

of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites


validity

en-noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

(Christianity, theology) The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.


neophyte

Borrowed from Latin neophytus, from Ancient Greek νεόφυτος (neóphutos, “newly planted”), from νέος (néos, “new”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant, child”). By surface analysis, neo- + -phyte.

der

(Christianity) A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those who have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, especially those converts from heathenism or Judaism.


jug

Probably from Latin jugum (“yoke, tether”). A folk etymology claims that it is an acronym for "justice under God" or "judgment under God". https://www.ignatius.edu/news/september-2017/jug-em-with-a-jugumhttps://catholicphilly.com/2021/10/news/local-news/local-priest-moves-closer-to-sainthood/

“Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”

1970, Kenneth H. Brown, The Narrows, New York City: The Deal Press, via Google Books:

I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.

2017 June 12, Stephen, N., S.J. Katsouros, Come To Believe: How the Jesuits are Reinventing Education (Again), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 27:

In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.

2017 September 20, Tom Healey, “Jug 'Em with a Jugum”, in Lessons from Loyola Hall, Cleveland: Saint Ignatius High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:

A common infraction that landed pupils in jug was getting caught using a stairwell that was reserved for use by faculty and other adults.

2018 October 16, Ted Slowik, “Slowik: Reunion reveals changes to high school, people and places in 35 years”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2021-11-24:

In addition to JUGs and disciplinary lectures, spats and hacks, paddles used to smack misbehaving students, often went with receiving a JUG.

2020 March 8, Steele Clevenger, “A Look Back at JUGs”, in The Jesuit Chronicle, Beaverton, Oregon: Jesuit High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:

(US, Roman Catholicism, countable or uncountable) detention (after-school student punishment)


jug

en-verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

jugs (present singular third-person)
jugging (participle present)
jugged (participle past)
jugged (past)

Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.

2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 60:

The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.

2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6:

(US, Roman Catholicism, transitive) to issue a detention (to a student)


stigmata

From English stigmata, plural of stigma, from Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”), from στίζω (stízō, “I mark”).

(Christianity) a mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body


indulgence

en-noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.

To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 555:

(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.


indulgence

en-verb

indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)

indulgences (present singular third-person)
indulgencing (participle present)
indulgenced (participle past)
indulgenced (past)

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) to provide with an indulgence


synoptic

en-adj

synoptic (comparative more synoptic, superlative most synoptic)

more synoptic (comparative)
most synoptic (superlative)

From New Latin synopticus, from Ancient Greek συνοπτικός (sunoptikós, “seeing the whole together or at a glance”), from σύνοψις (súnopsis, “a general view, synopsis”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”).

der

(Christianity) Pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

synoptinen

Christianity: pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke


apophasis

en-noun

apophasis (countable and uncountable, plural apophases)

Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) + φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence Latin fārī, cognate to fame, fable.

af

(Christianity, philosophy, theology) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.


apophasis

la-noun

apophasis f (genitive apophasis); third declension

apophasis (genitive)
apophasis (nominative singular)
apophasēs (nominative plural)
apophasis (genitive singular)
apophasium (genitive plural)
apophasī (dative singular)
apophasibus (dative plural)
apophasem (accusative singular)
apophasēs (accusative plural)
apophasīs (accusative plural)
apophase (ablative singular)
apophasibus (ablative plural)
apophasis (singular vocative)
apophasēs (plural vocative)

English: apophasis

French: apophase

Galician: apófase

→ Finnish: apofaasi

Portuguese: apófase

→ Russian: Апофазия (Apofazija)

[äˈpɔpʰäs̠ɪs̠]

From Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”), ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) + φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from ἀπόφημι (apóphēmi, “speak out; say no, refuse, deny”) from Attic Greek φημί (phēmí), Doric Greek φᾱμί (phāmí) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence via Proto-Italic *fāōr, *fāmā compare fārī, fābula, fāma, hence English fable, fame.

(Ecclesiastical Latin, Christianity, philosophy, theology) apprehending knowledge of what is true about an unknowable, such as the essence of a divine being like God, by a negative process of denying propositions that are knowably untrue


parish

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

der

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy


establishment

en-noun

establishment (countable and uncountable, plural establishments)

disestablishment

antonym(s) of “institution of a church as state church”

→ Polish: establishment

From Middle English *establishment, stablishment, stablisshement, from Old French establissement (Modern French établissement), from the verb establir. Equivalent to establish + -ment.

Not all Anglicans have supported establishment.

(Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.


homily

From Middle English omelī, omelīe, omelye, from Old French omelie and directly from Late Latin homīlia (“homily”), from Ancient Greek ὁμιλία (homilía, “homily; instruction”), from ὅμῑλος (hómīlos, “crowd, throng”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming abstract feminine nouns). ὅμῑλος is derived from ὁμός (homós, “common; same”) + ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, “crowd”) (from εἴλω (eílō, “to aggregate”)).

der

O moſt gentle Iupiter! What tedious homilie of Loue haue you wearied your pariſhioners withall, and neuer cri'de, haue patience good people.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 196, column 1:

But to return to the Homily on St. Gregory. It is printed from a Tranſcript I had made of it from one made by Dr. Hopkins, I believe, out of the Cottonian Book, Vitellius D. 17. […] The Homily is one of thoſe which were prepared by Ælfrick, to be uſed in the Engliſh Saxon Church: […]

1709, [Ælfric of Eynsham], Eliz[abeth] Elstob, “The Preface”, in An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St. Gregory: […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer, →OCLC, page lvi:

[W]e must pay attention not only to the rich tradition of the homily in the early Church and the retrieval of this preaching form by Vatican II but also to the evolving understandings of the homily from those who have tried to respond to the changing cultural patterns, pastoral needs, and theological trends of the day.

1998, Robert P. Waznak, “From Sermon to Homily”, in An Introduction to the Homily, Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 16:

[W]hen one approaches Origen's homilies, this aspect of the work of the priest must be kept in mind. The purpose of his sermons was to instruct and to lead beginners in the faith to a higher level of understanding and maturity.

1990, Origen, “Introduction”, in Gary Wayne Barkley, transl., Origen: Homilies on Leviticus 1–16 (The Fathers o the Church; 83), Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(Christianity) A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.