soulical

This is done, by representing phenomena which are in reality merely soulical, as having a spiritual origin.

1867, David Thom, Soul and Spirit, page 291:

Of or relating to a person's soul, sometimes (theology) as opposed to the divine spirit.


Christmas City

So called because the city's name Noel is coincidentally also a synonym for Christmas in the English language (although it was actually named after two people with the surname Noel).

A nickname for the city of Noel, Missouri, United States.


Malabar rites

(Christianity, historical) Certain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their Indian neophytes to retain after conversion but which were afterwards prohibited by Rome.


Prot

The rarest species was a Protestant although I'd bet that the majority of Ivy League rockheads in the 1950s were Prots.

2015, Edward A. Hagan, To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970, page 46:


Holy League

The initiative for a Holy League often came from a secular power, not the pope, but papal involvement was inevitable if it was to have the same spiritual benefits to participants as a crusade.

The third article contains an invitation to all other Powers, who shall find themselves disposed to avow these sacred principles, to join them in this Holy League.

1816, Robert Hindmarsh, Remarks on the Holy League Lately Entered Into, page 5:

Raymond de Cardona was immediately to lead his army into Lombardy, in order that he might have more influence on the distribution of the territories occupied by the Holy League, as well as to feed his army at the expense of that country, which Ferdinand assigned to them in place of pay.

1861, Thomas Henry Dyer, The History of Modern Europe, Volume 1, John Murray, page 292:

Instead, Zaccharia urges them to fight the "infidel" Turks as he elaborates in another poem on the Holy League. This is the only way, he asserts, that the Holy League will receive the support of God, who will unleash his heavenly army and send "his Angel from the highest cloister to take bitter and hard revenge"; the only way "that the power and malicious anger of the dragon will be oppressed, which will generate his ultimate ruin."

2011, Benjamin Paul, “"And the moon has started to bleed": Apocalypticism and religious reform in Venetian art at the time of the Battle of Lepanto”, in James G. Harper, editor, The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750, page 76:

(historical) Any one of several temporary alliances between Christian countries of (especially mediaeval) Europe, formed for some specific objective of ostensible benefit to Christianity.

Heilige Liga

any of several temporary alliances between Christian countries


harbi

From Arabic حَرْبِيّ (ḥarbiyy, literally “military”), a reference to the House of War.

bor

(Islam) A person who is not a Muslim and does not live under the condition of the dhimma.


Juggernaut

(historical) The Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna.


devotionalism

en-noun

devotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural devotionalisms)


Atheism Plus

Coined by blogger Jey McCreight in 2012.

(historical) A short-lived movement, active in the 2010s, that aimed to encourage atheists to address social justice issues in addition to religious ones during their activism.


imambarra

(India, historical, Islam) A building maintained by Shi'a communities in India for the express purpose of celebrating Muharram.


Shaitan

Borrowed from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān, “satan, devil”)

bor+

Beside him two Egyptian artillerymen with their throats cut were sobbing out their lives upon the ground. "Who lays the gun this time?" asked the fierce chief, glaring at the frightened gunners. "Here, thou black-browed child of Shaitan, aim, and aim for thy life."

1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Green Flag:

He thanks Allah for his mercy to men in sending Mohammed the Prophet, who gave the world the True Belief, and he curses Shaitan, who wages war against Allah and his children.


apotelesma

It is further to be observed, that although both the Natures in Christ remaine distinct […] both Natures doe that which is proper vnto them, but with Communion of each with other. This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.

1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60:

Satisfaction is […] looked on as a real act or operation of one or the other nature in Christ, when it is the apotelesma or effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ – the dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in Christ as not to have a third compound principle of physical acts and operations thence arising; but each nature acts distinctly according to its own being and properties, yet so as what is the immediate act of either nature is the act of him who is one in both; from whence it has its dignity.

1669, John Owen, “On the Satisfaction of Christ”, in A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity:

[25][…]Holl. (728) further enumerates the apotelesmata of Christ, as of a twofold order. The divine nature of the λόγος cannot affect some things except by a union with flesh[…]; other things, from his free good pleasure or purpose, he does not will to effect without flesh (for example, miracles).

1876, Heinrich Schmid, translated by Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 360:

Leontius of Byzantium calls the result of this retrospective reconstruction – from the trinitarian Son through the creation of human physis to the enhypostasis – an apotelesma. That is an important shift compared to Chalcedon: the apotelesma, the result of the whole process, is not the hypostasis as such, because the hypostasis – as the hypostasis of the second person of the Trinity – is the hegemonikon principle from the very beginning. The apotelesma, the final point, is the retrospectively reconstructed enhypostatical union of the person of Jesus Christ.

2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106:

(theology) The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.


Asmodeus

From Ancient Greek Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaîos). Believed to ultimately come from an unattested Avestan *𐬀𐬉𐬴𐬨𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (*aēṣ̌madaēuua, from a compound of 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēšəma, “wrath”) + 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua, “demon”)). Doublet of Ashmedai: a borrowing from Hebrew.

der

*𐬀𐬉𐬴𐬨𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀

The king of demons in Jewish tradition, and thought to represent lust in Christian demonology.


theodicist

Many theodicists have maintained that God is justified in permitting suffering...

1974, Clement Dore, “Do Theodicists Mean What They Say?”, in Philosophy:


let it snow

From the song "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945.

Christmas season
Christmas season#English

(colloquial) Used around the Christmas season to express anticipation of snowfall.

Jule Styne
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Sammy Cahn


God Emperor

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

cal

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician and 45th president of the United States.


fundagelical

In Alabama, Fundagelicals - our modern day moral majoritarians calling themselves Citizens for a Positive Education, banned the use of a social studies textbook on the grounds that it failed to extol the virtues of capitalism […]

1982, A View from the Loft, volumes 5-8, page 11:

What do fundagelicals instinctively oppose? Gay marriage, abortion, gun control, taxes, the UN (and the currently top-rated candidate for anti-Christ, Kofi Annan), withdrawal from Iraq, Michael Moore, Janet Jackson's left breast.

2004 May 3, John Sutherland, “God save America...”, in The Guardian:

Let us be radicals: not conservatives or liberals, fundagelicals or charismatics (or whatever other brand of something-less-than gospel entices), but radicals: radical preachers and practitioners of the gospel by justification by faith without the deeds of the law.

2012, Gerhard O. Forde, “Radical Lutheranism”, in Virgil Thompson, editor, Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer, Gerhard O. Forde, and Others, page 19:

(sometimes derogatory) A person with beliefs and values characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.


propositionalism

(theology) The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.


Five Poisons

(folklore) Five animals regarded as poisonous or otherwise hazardous in Chinese folklore: typically snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders.


War on Christmas

(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) An alleged plot by atheists and liberals to remove Christianity from Christmas or ban the festival of Christmas itself.


NLT

New Living Translation
w:New Living Translation

(biblical) Initialism of New Living Translation.


chelev

From Yiddish חלבֿ (kheylev), from Hebrew חֵלֶב (khélev).

(Judaism) Certain animal fats that the Torah prohibits Jews and Israelites from eating.


gigunu

(religion, historical) A kind of ancient shrine or holy dwelling, of disputed function, associated with a ziggurat.


Britomartis

From Ancient Greek Βριτόμαρτις (Britómartis).

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, primarily worshipped on the island of Crete.


Side X

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are sinful and should be avoided, and that no true Christian can be homosexual.

Side A, Side B, Side X, Side Y (theological views)


Side A

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are blessed by God and should not be treated differently from traditional heterosexual marriage.


clobber passage

en-noun

clobber passage (plural clobber passages)

(Christianity, LGBTQ, informal) Any of a number of passages in the Bible that may be interpreted as clear condemnations of homosexuality: usually Genesis 19:1-38; Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; Jude 6-7; and Romans 1:25-27.


Side B

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality is an intrinsic trait of some people, but that gay marriage is nevertheless sinful and should be avoided.


Buddhist economics

A spiritual and philosophical approach to the study of economics, considering human psychological and emotional factors.


Adephagia

From Ancient Greek Ἀδηφαγία (Adēphagía).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of gluttony.


Angelic

(Christianity) A member of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul, a Roman Catholic religious order.


parinibbana

parinibbana (countable and uncountable, plural parinibbanas)

(Buddhism) Alternative form of parinirvana


Amidism

From Amida (“Amitabha”) + -ism (“forming nouns concerning schools of thought”).

suffix

(Buddhism) Synonym of Pure Land Buddhism.


palitza

The palitza, or diamond-shaped epigonation, signifies the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and is a senior award of the priesthood. At times in Greece this vestment has been employed to indicate the educated clergy who are ...

2010, Michael Prokurat, Michael D. Peterson, Alexander Golitzin, The A to Z of the Orthodox Church, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 337:

If the priest has been awarded the palitza, he blesses it with the words Blessed be our God..., kisses the cross, and puts it on after the nabedrennik, on the right thigh. When vesting in the nabedrennik and the palitza, […]

2011, Gregory W. Woolfenden, A Practical Handbook for Divine Services, Holy Trinity Publications, →ISBN, section 3:

(uncommon, Eastern Christianity) The epigonation.


Ramrajya

Borrowed from Hindi रामराज्य (rāmrājya).

(India, Hinduism) The reign of Rama's rule in the kingdom of Ayodhya, in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

"The VHP will now focus more on establishing ' Ram Rajya ', a harmonious society based on equality, where every person will be treated with dignity." - Alok Kumar

(India, Hinduism, Hindutva) a government or society ruled under Hindutva.


Santa Paws

No no not Santa Paws! Bean O'brien. Everyone deserves a second chance maybe he was just being a poophead cuz he need a hug Bessa Phaneuf. You a bad troll...!! Mattie Bissmeyer. He's a very norty Troll. But i don't like to see anyone cry ...

year unknown, Josephine Tuckfield, Saving Santa Paws, Lulu.com

It turned out that Snowy was upset because at Christmas all the animals are left out and he wants to be SANTA PAWS. Well, Ithought what a great idea this was and went back into the room and said to Snowy, “What a kind dog you are ...

2009, Buckham Derek, Santa's Christmas Story Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 24:

Duke happily trotted to the main stand Where Santa Paws sat, all dressed in red and looking very grand. The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight. Duke happily trotted to the main ...

2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28:

"Santa Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winkedat Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." Adam struggled to get the Santa cookie he'd ...

2014, Meda White, Christmas Give: A Holiday Novella, Meda White, →ISBN:

Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too! Brittni Vega. plate of cookies and a glass of milk. I don't mean to ruin the . . . I am almost twelve in dog years. I stopped believing in Santa Paws a few months ago.

2015, Brittni Vega, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese): Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too!, Penguin, →ISBN:

Santa Paws knows Santa Claus, because he was his first and favourite pet. Santa Claus loved Santa Paws so much, that every Christmas, Santa Claus would take Santa Paws with him in his sleigh. Santa Paws would look at the beautiful night ...

2017, Hanna L. Farha, Santa Paws, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

When Belle opened her eyes , she saw Santa Paws. " I got your letter , Belle , " chuckled Santa Paws. " I have to say, when I was a young pup, I also made some mistakes. Look at me now! I grew up just fine!

2020, Sara J J Gunkel, Dear Santa Paws, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 13:

(humorous, fiction) An equivalent to Santa Claus as an anthropomorphic dog or cat.


Horeb

(biblical) The mountain where the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by Yahweh, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.


Auphanim

In Chochmah the angels are Auphanims, called wheels, by the prophet Ezekiel who wrongly placed them in the order of Cherubims.

2001, Adewale Thompson, The Invisible World, page 58:

The order of angels in the sphere of Chokmah are the Auphanim, or “Wheels,” a word derived from the root AVPh which means “to encircle.”

2002, John Bonner, Qabalah: A Magical Primer:

Nevertheless the Angel Order of the Auphanim operate well within our reach and affect every life or energy cycle on earth—or elsewhere.

2007, William G. Gray, The Ladder of Lights, page 190:

A biblical angel made from bright wheels covered in eyes.


holy rood

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Holy Rood: the True Cross of Jesus.


Jewnited Snakes

Blend of Jew + United States + snakes, implying that the United States is malicious, untrustworthy and controlled by Jews. First use appears c. 1982. See cite below.

What makes Mark [Margoian] unique is the fact he is literate. That, for a wacko, is very unusual. Out of two legal-sized pages of single-spaced harangue he misspells only a handful of words. And most of these, such as “Jewnited Snakes government” and “niggar,” are apparently misspelled for effect.

1982 September 9, Frank Boyett, “Yes, there are a few wackos out there”, in Clare Nichols, editor, Sandpoint Daily Bee, volume XVII, number 58, Sandpoint, Ida.: Pend Oreille Printers, Inc., →OCLC, page 2, column 4:

The current German Regime, which does not represent German popular opinion, is currently arresting and jailing American citizens for acts committed within the sovereign borders of the United States. These acts are not illegal in the U.S. German law is not in effect in the U.S. The crime? Belonging to a "politically incorrect" organization. The victims? Gerhard Lauck, American hero; Hans Schmidt, American hero, and others. WHY is the Zionist Occupied Government of the Jewnited Snakes permitted to surrender its sovereignty to the traitors occupying Bonn?

1996 January 25, JohnOttoNY, “German Gov't attack on US Citizens”, in alt.society.sovereign (Usenet):

YOUNG ARABS, IRANIANS, SIKHS,
AFGHANS AND PAKISTANIS ARE FORMING SKINHEAD GANGS TO STOMP JEW$ INTO
BLOODY RED MESS! EVEN THE PEOPLE OF THE JEWNITED SNAKES OF AMERIKA ARE
GETTING SICK OF YOU HEBES!

2002 May 5, Habib Al-Hazra, “Are Zionist Jews Satanic Creatures?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

No, the countries of the human shields aren't under threat of
terrorism since neither faction in the Congo conflict is getting
billions of dollars anually from the Jewnited Snakes, nor do any of
those niggers drive us into wars for their own benefit.

2003 April 9, Mark, “White House Hawks View Iraq War as Lesson to the World”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

::When you've made a few posts attacking Israel or the Jewnited Snakes of Scamerica we may take you seriously
::Bring the lads home to a heroes welcome

2003 July 13, tucobeneditopacificojuanmariaramirez, “Should the 'UK' Guantanamo Two come 'home'?”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):

Where's the Furher^([sic]) when we need
him? These "jewnited snakes" are in dire need. The Fe(de)ral
government MUST be dissolved.

2007 June 24, AnArky, “Why I admire Hitler”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Maybe you don't remember or know about Jonathan Pollard and what he did and
whom he worked for and you clearly certainly didn't lose any family members
murdered by jews who the traitorous former President Johnson and his other
jew pals in the jewnited snakes tried to sink the U.S. Liberty by conducting
a false flag operation they intended to use to blame on Egypt (Muslims) so
Israel could use the jewnited snakes military machine to destroy the Arab
states and steal their resources.

2007 August 6, 12 String, “The Misinformed Person's Guide To Copyright or...”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):

They don’t want the pornographic filth that the Jewnited Snakes of America is disseminating around the globe. They don’t want to live under a usurious credit system run by the greedy Self-Chosen and they sure don’t want their daughters to be inundated with the sexual libertinism and permissiveness that Hollywood outre-peddlers count as normalcy.

2009 December 30, muto2100, “JEWS 15 MORE Ways To Destroy Your Country: How the Jewish Supremacists Are STILL Wrecking America”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

He has defended Iran against Israel and the Jewnited Snakes for nine years now. Here is Putin with Ahmadinejad of Iran, who overtly denounces the Holocaust fraud.

2014 March 3, dc, “JDN: ENGLISH Obama, Putin and Ukraine”, in Money Morning Refugees (Google Groups):

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The United States.


TCDSB

Coordinate term: TDSB

Abbreviation of Toronto Catholic District School Board.


Jodo

A borrowing of Japanese 浄土 (Jōdo, literally “Pure Land”), q.v.

bor

...zealous persons, chiefly the followers of the Sect of Siodo...

1727, Engelbert Kaempfer, translated by John Gaspar Scheuchzer, History of Japan, volume I, page 287:

The Jō-do-shū, or Pure Land sect.

1886, Bunyiu Nanjio, chapter IX, in A Short History of the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects:

In 1579, the two great sects of Nichiren and Jōdo held a great discussion upon religious subjects.

1876, William Elliot Griffis, Mikado's Empire, page 233:

In the far off West there is said to be the home of Amida... He is free from the chain of transmigration and enjoys a conscious and happy immortality in ‘Jodo’,—that is, in the Pure Land.

1901, R.L. Halsey, The Religion of Japan & the Present Attitude of the Japanese, page 13:

The Jōdo appeals naturally more to plebeian requirements because of the simpleness of its faith and teaching.

1938, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture, page 37:

Jodo Buddhism... had in its structure a grace-based doctrine of salvation of trusting in its goddess that was similar to the doctrine of grace in Christianity.

2012, Atsuyoshi Fujiwara, Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context, page 175:

(Japanese Buddhism) Synonym of Pure Land: a sect of Buddhism and its primary afterlife, the seat of the Amida Buddha.


Jodo

Simple faith in Buddha's grace was all that one needed to cross this ocean of samsara to the Jodo or 'Pure Land'.

(Japanese Buddhism) Alternative letter-case form of jodo: any of various other pure lands.


Pure Land

Calque of Chinese 淨土／净土 (Jìngtǔ) and Japanese 浄土 (Jōdo), both meaning "pure land" and used as the common name of the Buddhist sect devoted to Amitabha and rebirth into his pure land.

(Buddhism) A school of Mahayana Buddhism focused on the Pure Land sutras and the buddha Amitabha.

(Buddhism) The specific pure land of the buddha Amitabha, generally understood as a paradise wherein believers will be led to enlightenment.


Pure Land

(Buddhism) Alternative letter-case form of pure land: any of the various celestial realms of other buddhas and boddhisattvas.


Baháʼíst

Baháʼí Baháʼí

A Baháʼí; a follower of the Baháʼí Faith.


vairagi

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैरागी (vairāgī).

(Hinduism) One who has attained the state of vairagya.


Baháʼ

From Arabic بَهَاء (bahāʔ, “splendor, glory”).


Baháʼu'lláh

/bəˈhɑːʊˌlɑː/

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَهَاءُاللّٰه (bahā'u-l-lāh), from Arabic بَهَاءُ ٱللّٰه (bahāʔu llāh, literally “glory of God”).

bor

بَهَاءُاللّٰه

der

بَهَاءُ ٱللّٰه

Born Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí (1817–1892), Persian religious leader, prophet-founder of the Baháʼí Faith.


Baháʼí

From Classical Persian بَهَائِی (bahā'ī).

بَهَائِيّ

follower of the Baháʼí Faith / follower of Baháʼu'lláh


Baháʼí

pertaining to Baháʼís or beliefs held in the Baháʼí Faith


Greyfriars

As a common British placename, typically derived from having been the site of a Franciscan friary prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscans: the Order of the Friars Minor.


Baháʼí Faith

Baháʼí Baháʼí

A religious movement founded by Baháʼu'lláh, which draws on the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and other Baháʼí texts.


kedushah

en-noun

kedushah (countable and uncountable, plural kedushahs)

Borrowed from Hebrew קדושה (k'dushá, “holiness”).

bor+

(Judaism) Any of several prayers involving the recitation of the biblical verses Isaiah 6:3 and Ezekiel 3:12.

When we sing this melody [Napoleon's March], are we singing a non-Jewish melody? Of course not! We have accepted it and even given it a degree of k'dusha (holiness) by attaching it to a liturgical text.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 208:

According to the Torah, all people are required to be morally good, but Jews are additionally required to protect the border that kedushah creates around us.

2021 06, Eli L. Garfinkel, The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 210:


nabedrennik

Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church

A vestment worn by some priests in the Russian Orthodox Church: a square or rectangular cloth worn at the right hip, suspended from a strap.


morose delectation

en-noun

morose delectation (countable and uncountable, plural morose delectations)

Calque of Medieval Latin dēlectātiō mōrōsa, used and possibly coined by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae.

calque

For quotations using this term, see Citations:morose delectation.

(Catholicism) The act of lingering with pleasure on an impure thought.


Quiet Revolution

Likely coined in The Globe and Mail or the Montreal Gazette.

A period of vast sociopolitical change in Quebec in the 1960s characterized by secularization, a rise of Quebec nationalism, and the development of a welfare state.

Montreal Gazette
Quiet Revolution
The Globe and Mail


Coronatide

/kəˈɹəʊnəˌtaɪd/

From corona(virus) + -tide (suffix meaning ‘time’, denoting seasons), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide and Eastertide.

suffix

Nowhere in the letter do the writers express a desire to know what is going on with the recipient; they do not wish to listen, learn, or truly befriend. They seem, above all, to want compliance. They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.

2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-31:

But Coronatide, as our extraordinary time has been dubbed, obliterated the usual sacred spaces and practices.

2020 August 12, David Gibson, “Jazz Vespers”, in Commonweal, volume 147, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Commonweal Foundation, published September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-21, page 64:

In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.

2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual Reality and Liturgical Theology in Conversation, New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page xx:

Charles Butler's remarks in The Principles of Musik that "a Singing-man neede never fear the Astma, Peripneumonia, or Consumption: or any other like affections of that vital part: which ar the death of many students," seems particularly apt advice for the current Coronatide—an incentive perhaps for us all to sing more, even if we are stuck at home.

2021 spring–summer, Anna Lewton-Brain, “Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx + 245 pp. + 16 illus. + 14 tracks. $77. [book review]”, in Donald R. Dickson, editor, Seventeenth-Century News, volume 79, numbers 1 and 2, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

Coronatide made it hard to go an hour or two without snacking, but we’re past that now, and Mass is definitely not the place for the munchies.

2022 October 4, Katie Burke, “Ready for Mass: Churching like a pro”, in The Catholic Sun, Phoenix, Ariz.: Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

(Christianity, neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


volipresence

(theology) A form of omnipresence in which an entity is present wherever it wishes to be.


Volcanus

(Roman mythology) Synonym of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork.


COVIDtide

Alternative letter-case form of Covidtide.


Erisianism

The philosophy expressed in this book-also called “Discordianism” or “Erisianism” or even “Marxism-Lennonism”-is a group artwork, like reality itself.

1985, Camden Benares, Zen Without Zen Masters, Falcon Press, →ISBN, page 11:

Then they might start to see the fallacy of all questions in that form and we will achieve a large part of the goals of General Semantics, Erisianism, Deconstructionism and Buddhism.

1995, Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, New Falcon Publications, →ISBN, page 109:

In the 70's a humorous deity is still considered impossible, ridiculous and blasphemous. As far as I'm concerned, I have proven my point. Eris is a real deity and even though I don't promote Erisianism as a serious religion.

2013 March 13, Malaclypse The Younger, Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger, Lulu Press, →ISBN:


docetize

en-verb

docetize (third-person singular simple present docetizes, present participle docetizing, simple past and past participle docetized)

docetizes (present singular third-person)
docetizing (participle present)
docetized (participle past)
docetized (past)

(Christianity, transitive) To explain or interpret in terms of docetism.


Eye of Providence

en-proper noun

Eye of Providence (plural Eyes of Providence)

A symbol of an eye usually enclosed in a triangle, representing the eye of God.

Olho da Providência

a symbol of an eye usually enclosed in a triangle


Seghatoleslam

Borrowed from Iranian Persian ثقت الاسلام (seğato l-eslâm), from Classical Persian ثِقَةُ الْاِسْلَام (siqatu l-islām), from Arabic ثِقَةُ الإِسْلَام (ṯiqatu l-ʔislām, literally “Trustworthy of Islam”).

m+

ثِقَةُ الْاِسْلَام

der

ثِقَةُ الإِسْلَام


dorcastry

(Christianity, historical) A Dorcas society (ladies' church association making clothes for the poor)


Gurneyism

The religious principles of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), Quaker minister who brought about a schism among American Quakers.


Hicksism

(US, historical) The religious principles of the Hicksites.


Rappism

(historical, religion) The beliefs and principles of the Rappists, or Harmonists.


Akhand Bharat

Transliteration of Hindi अखंड भारत (akhaṇḍ bhārat).

translit

(Hindutva) A state proposed by Hindutva supporters that claims several other nearby countries and regions as former Hindu or Indianised cultures such as Myanmar, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Indonesia. This superstate also includes the rest of South Asia and sometimes Tibet and Yunnan.


Sanatana Dharma

Borrowed from Sanskrit सनातन धर्म (sanātana dharma, “the eternal way, the eternal law”).

bor

(India, Hinduism) Orthodox and traditionalist Hinduism.


philactory

"Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 252:


Christiform

(theology, Christianity) Formed like, or acting in accordance with, Christ.


Ghazwa-e-Hind

Partly re-Arabized form of Urdu غزوہ ہند (ġazvā-e hind), from Classical Persian غزوهٔ هند (ğazwa-yi hind), from Arabic غزوة الهند (“battle of Hind [India]”).

der

(Islam) A prophecy in some hadiths where an Islamic army invades and conquers the Indian subcontinent, as part of the events leading to the eventual apocalypse.

(South Asia, politics) Alleged attempts by Islamist groups to conquer the Republic of India.


Sanatani

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सनातनी (sanātanī, “of the eternal [way], Hindu”).

lbor

(India, Hinduism, religious slur, politics) a traditionalist Hindu


Dar al-Islam

Borrowed from Arabic دار الإسلام (“land of submission [to God]”).

bor

(Islam) Lands that practice Islamic law; the Muslim world.

Dar al-Sulh

land of treaty; non-Muslim countries under a treaty with Islamic countries

Dar al-Harb

land of war; countries hostile against Islam, or any non-Muslim countries by extension

harbi

military; usually a non-Muslim who is not under Muslim rule


sarkari Muslim

The usage of sarkari as a negative term originated from Khalistani supporters who condemned Sikhs who supported the government of India. It was later adopted by Muslim activists and nationalists within India.

Shahbagi

equivalent term in Bangladesh used for liberals and opponents of Islam

(India, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A Muslim who supports India, especially the BJP and Hindutva, at the expense of other Muslims, a Muslim Indian race traitor.

(India, derogatory, slang, politics, religious slur) A Muslim who rejects some Islamic beliefs and norms, a liberal Muslim.


libbu

(India, politics, derogatory, vulgar, Internet slang) A liberal, a leftist.

raita

a conservative Hindu who does not support Hindutva


savarna

From Hindi सवर्ण (savarṇ), derived from Sanskrit सवर्ण (savarṇa, “same colour, same caste”).

der

(India, Hinduism) A member of the Savarna gotra (lineage) of the Brahmin caste.


savarna

en-adj

savarna (comparative more savarna, superlative most savarna)

more savarna (comparative)
most savarna (superlative)

(India, Hinduism) From the four varnas (social castes) in Hinduism.


Gangajal

In Hinduism, Gangajal is considered to be immensely sacred. This is the reason why one should always keep the holy water at the place of worship.

2022 January 26, “Keep these things in the home temple to maintain Goddess Laxmi's blessings”, in Hindustan Times, archived from the original on 2022-02-17:

The water from the river Ganga, considered holy in Hinduism.


Hurufi

(Islam, historical) A follower of Hurufism.


Ops

Learned borrowing from Latin Ops, from Latin ops (“resources, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- base

(Roman mythology) The goddess of earth and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Rhea, Ops was the sister-wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter. After Saturn learned of a prophecy that his children by Ops would overthrow him, he ate each of them just after they were born; however, Ops saved Jupiter by feeding Saturn a stone instead.


upsherin

In some Jewish cultures, a ceremony for a three-year-old boy's first haircut, or the haircut itself.


derech

You see, I had gone off the derech--off the path. To complete my self-determination, to live an authentic life, I would have to leave the community, the most egregious offense imaginable.

2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 8:

(Judaism) The path of propriety or righteousness, or especially of Hasidism or Judaism.


Blanchardist

From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.

From these acts of the English vicars apostolic, the Blanchardists appealed (irregularly, it is allowed) to the Irish prelates convened in synod at Tullow.

1824, Francis Plowden, Human Subordination, page 99:

Besides the Blanchardists, there remained in England a considerable number of orthodox French priests and laymen, and their presence had a great influence on the Catholic Church in this country, far greater than is represented by the half-dozen churches or missions founded by a few of them.

1905, Bernard Ward, Catholic London a Century Ago, page 57:

That was not the method of Milner, however, who agitated for the most public denunciations of the Blanchardists.

1984, Joan Connell, The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850: A Study in Internal Politics, page 109:

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Blanchardism.


Blanchardism

In these he concurs with the Irish Bishops in their condemnation of Blanchardism, […]

1862, F. C. Husenbeth, The Life of the Right Rev. John Milner, page 229:

The schism of the Petite Eglise, or Blanchardism as it was called in England, was a terrible blow to him.

1867 May, “'He Went About Doing Good'”, in The Catholic World, page 265:

By the time of the Restoration most of the French had gone, and those who had not were often infirm or tainted with Blanchardism.

1980 May, Dominic Bellenger, “The English Catholics And The Exiled French Clergy”, in British Catholic History, volume 15, number 3, page 439:

(Christianity, historical) A Catholic schism that emerged in the early 19th century among exiled French clergy who, having fled to England after the French Revolution, opposed the Concordat of 1801, an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that sought national reconciliation between the revolutionaries and the Church.


Ghar Wapsi

Transliteration of Hindi घर वापसी (ghar vāpsī, literally “to return home”), from घर (ghar, “home”) and वापसी (vāpsī, “return, coming back”). The term owes to the Hindu nationalist ideology that all people of India in ancient times were Hindus, so by converting to Hinduism they were returning to the religion of their ancestors.

translit

(India, Hinduism, Hindutva) Conversion of non-Hindu people to Hinduism.


Yarilo

Derived from Russian Ярило (Jarilo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *jaro (“spring”) or Proto-Slavic *jarъ (“strong, fierce”). It is related to Old East Slavic ярилой (jariloj), a straw effigy used by the ancient Slavs during the festival of Kupala to expel evil spirits.

The god of vegetation, fertility, and springtime in Slavic mythology.


Svetovid

Derived from Russian Световит (Svetovit), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy”) and Proto-Slavic *vitъ (“lord”).

The chief god of the Slavic tribe of Rani and the Polabian Slavs, ruling over war, fertility, and prosperity.


Mokosh

Learned borrowing from Russian Мо́кошь (Mókošʹ), from Old East Slavic Мокошь (Mokošĭ), from Proto-Slavic *Mokošь.

lbor

(Slavic mythology) Slavic goddess of fertility, waters and earth mentioned in East Slavic sources


prozbul

bor

Hebrew פרוזבול

(Judaism) A document assigning one's promissory notes to a court for collection, used to evade the sabbatical year's nullification of debts.


Jesusland

From Jesus + -land, implying that Republican states are historically and traditionally religious.

(slang, derogatory, humorous, US politics) A collective term describing the numerous US states who typically vote for Republican candidates in US elections.

red state

referring to states that overwhelmingly support Republican politicians


Urduwood

Four, although Baahubali is not a Bollywood film, Baahubali trolls resent the success of Bollywood’s three Khans, because they are non-Hindus – hence the “Urduwood” taunt.

(India, Hindutva, informal, Internet slang) Bollywood.


Upāli

Transliteration of Sanskrit उपालि (upāli).

translit

(Buddhism) one of the ten disciples of the Buddha


gohei

An implement used in Shintō rituals, consisting of two kamishide draping down alongside a wooden post or bamboo pole.


Kardama

Transliteration of Sanskrit कर्दम (kardama).

The story of Kapila's birth begins with the sage Kardama, who worships Viṣṇu in the hopes of procuring a wife and children.

2016 March 9, Brian Black, Laurie Patton, Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 143:

Kapila's father was Kardama Prajapati, one of the early progenitors of the human race.

2019, Swami Satyamayananda, Ancient Sages, Advaita Ashrama, →ISBN:

(Hinduism) Name of a Prajapati, father of Kapila and husband of Devahuti.


Sterquilinus

(Roman mythology) A Roman god of odor and manure.


Daitya

Coordinate term: Deva

(Hinduism) Any of a clan or race of Asuras, the children of Diti and the sage Kashyapa.


Eurostan

Yeah, and guess what, I still don't care. And by "the rest of the world"
you're referring to Eurostan and Muslim nations.

2004 November 22, Don Swayser, “Terrorism in Iraq”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

Ok, let them all receive their lessons from the imams in Arabic and
Urdu. I think all of the European countries should do this, since the
native Europeans will be dhimmis soon enough. With it becoming Eurostan
and all.

2006 April 28, Evron, “'Separate laws for Muslims' idea slammed (Sweden)”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

It is remarkable to me that the overwhelming majority have not turned
towards radical Islam because that sure as hell is where many on the right
would like to see them go on this group and their talk of 'Eurostan',
'Londistan' and all other manner of derisory comments is designed to make
them feel, "if that's how they see us, we might as well be that ( better to
die on our feet than live on our knees )".

2007 September 27, The Happy Hippy, “Iran president's ignorance”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

true, since it becoming Islamic Republic of Eurostan

2007 November 14, GeekBoy, “Why I hate America”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

I don’t think Orwell foresaw this multicultural superstate. This is something new. All we can be sure of is that this Eurostan—the new European superstate now in the making—will be a multicultural dystopia rife with race wars, gang rapes, cheap foreign labor, widespread unemployment for the dispossessed White minority, bullying bosses, cowed workers, overflowing prisons, fatcat lawyers, psychotic politicians, police state surveillance, fabricated news items, false flag attacks, demoralized families, dysfunctional children, schools for morons, mass suicides, manufactured diseases, promoted perversions, drug addiction, gambling, prostitution, pornography, serial killers on the rampage, and nonstop mindless entertainment for the zombified masses.

2016 September 3, track...@yahoo.com.au, “Germany: Rape on an Industrial Scale...”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

(derogatory, offensive) A supposed future Europe which has undergone Islamization.


Huveane

(mythology) A trickster god and a creator god in Pedi and Venda mythologies.


Vāc

(Hindu mythology) The goddess of speech, the written word, and language.


JewBu

Meditation, the JewBus argued, did not detract from their Jewishness; rather, their identity was enhanced by the practice, by silent reflection and a mental reaching out toward God.

(informal) A Jewish person who practises Buddhism.


kenesa

Borrowed from Karaim כְּנִיסָא (kǝnîsāʾ), from Aramaic כְּנִישָׁא (kənīšā, “gathering”), likely via Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “church, synagogue”).

der

An Eastern European or Persian Karaite synagogue.


duskarma

en-noun

duskarma (countable and uncountable, plural duskarmas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit दुष्कर्मन् (duṣkarman, “wickedness”), from दुष्- (duṣ-, “bad”) + कर्मन् (karman, “action”).

bor+

... for an offence against Dharma, (i.e. law or morality) goes far to shed the duṣkarma that results from his offence.

1946, Chittenjoor Kunhan Raja (contributor), Dr. C. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume - A Volume of Indological Studies, page 228:

Forcing oneself into a varṇa other than that in which he is born, will make the offender guilty of duṣkarma or sin , whose effect will be to intensify the effects of prāktanakarma (past-birth action) to which his present caste itself is traceable.

1952, Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami Aiyangar, Some Aspects of the Hindu View of Life According to Dharmaśāṡtra, page 99:

It is a definite consequence of the duṣkarma on the part of the individual.

1968, University of Madras, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Indian Philosophical Annual - Volume 2, page 191:

At any one time we all have the preponderance of one guna over the other two and due to this we do either, (a) satkarma-good acts, or (b) duṣkarma-bad acts.

1998, Pathikonda Viswambara Nath, Tat Tvam Asi, The Universal Massage in the Bhagavadgītā - Volume 1, page 138:

Knowingly or unknowingly people do a lot of duṣkarma (wrong deeds).

2000, Muralidharan, Śrī Guru-Gītā, page 157:

The tone of this verse and verses six and seven seem to refer to any karma whatever, whether it is śrauta, smārta or sādhāraṇa kind and even to duṣkarma that all humans do.

2003, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, R. Balasubramanian, Paramparā - Essays in Honour of R. Balasubramanian, page 199:

(eastern religion) A misdeed, sinful action, vice, or wrong.


uhtsong

(Christianity, obsolete) The nocturn or night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours.


sickularism

(India, Indian politics, derogatory) Secularism, viewed as being anti-Hindu.


volkhv

From Russian волхв (volxv), and from Old East Slavic вълхвъ (vŭlxvŭ).

(historical, paganism) A pre-Christian priest from Slavic cultures.

(religion, paganism) A priest from Slavic neopaganism.


Tukde Tukde Gang

Borrowed from Hindi टुकड़े टुकड़े गैंग (ṭukṛe ṭukṛe gaiṅg), from Hindi टुकड़ा (ṭukṛā, “fragment”). Coined by the journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, later popularised after an alleged video of Jawaharlal Nehru University students calling for India to be divided during a protest.

टुकड़े टुकड़े गैंग

(India, Indian politics, Hindutva) Leftist mass-media groups and companies that oppose Narendra Modi's administration and Hindutva.


Godi media

en-noun

Godi media (countable and uncountable, plural Godi medias)

From Hindi गोदी (godī, “lap”) + media, referring to the mentioned media as “lap dogs” of Narendra Modi. Coined by journalist Ravish Kumar.

(uncountable, India, Indian politics, derogatory) Mass media that supports Narendra Modi and Hindutva.


Jai Shri Ram

Borrowed from Hindi जय श्री राम (jay śrī rām).

(Hinduism) "Victory to Lord Rama"; a salute or invocation towards the Hindu god Rama.

ജയ് ശ്രീ റാം

jayŭ śrī ṟāṁ


kharaj

(Islam) A kind of individual Islamic tax on agricultural land and its produce.

(Islam, historical) A lump sum duty levied by Muslims upon the lands of conquered provinces.

(Islam, historical) A land tax levied by Muslim rulers on non-Muslim subjects or dhimmis.


Orpah

And they tooke them wiues of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten yeeres.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:4:

(biblical) A Biblical figure, daughter-in-law of Naomi, wife of Chilion.


Om Namah Shivaya

Borrowed from Sanskrit ॐ नमः शिवाय (oṃ namaḥ śivāya).

bor+

(Hinduism) "Adoration to Lord Shiva"; a salute or invocation towards the Hindu god Shiva.


re-presentation

en-noun

re-presentation (countable and uncountable, plural re-presentations)

...but one constant of his work was his thinking about the theology of the eternal sacrifice (self-offering) of Christ on the cross and its relationship to the Eucharist. Jones was particularly interested in the relationship between the Mass and time, and constantly meditated on the Mass’s ability to touch all moments of history through the dynamic of “re-presentation” (anamnesis).

2021, Anna Svendsen, “C. C. Martindale (1879–1963), the History of Religions, and the Theological Imagination of David Jones (1895–1974)”, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, page 566:

(Catholicism, by extension) Presentation anew of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ through the Eucharist.


tna'im

Borrowed from Hebrew תְּנָאִים, plural of תְּנַאי (“condition, term”).

The tna'im contained guarantees of sufficient substance that the couple's future might now be seen as entirely settled.

2000 February 1, Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

Small-town rabbis, therefore, sometimes lived in conditions of poverty, despite their right to supplement their income with payments for drawing up tnaim (for engaged couples) and marriage contracts...

2000, Dov Levin, The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 59:

After the tna'im (nuptial agreement) is witnessed, the mothers of the bride and groom hold and break a plate, and the bridegroom shatters a glass at the end of the wedding ceremony.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 197:

(Judaism) An informal document containing the terms and expectations for a betrothed couple.


gartel

From Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl). Doublet of girdle.

The bride stands perfectly still at one end of the room and holds a long gartel while the male dancing before her holds the other end.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 140:

(Judaism) A belt or sash used in prayer.


Bratslaver

The Bratslaver Hasidim, therefore, requested my advice regarding nigunim they hoped to sing in a forthcoming recording project.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 109:

Of or relating to the Bratslav Hasidic sect.


dveykut

From Hebrew דְּבֵקוּת (literally “attachment, devotion”).

der

The Rebbe approached the bima and before responding, sang a nigun that was filled with intense dveykut.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 95:

(Judaism, uncountable) Intense devotion or piety.


co-believer

For it was highly probable in their belief system that one or more of such 'unknown' co-believers were sice, i.e. spacemen disguised as fellowmen, sent to carry private orders to them or to guide them to safety at the time of the[…]

1982 January 1, J. G. Platvoet, Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach: An Analysis of Akan, Para-Creole, and IFO-Sananda Rites and Prayers, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

She had great authority among her co-believers who addressed her as ' mother - abbess ' . 115 Meshchanka Anna Mikhailova organised a home chapel and a school in her house where she taught poor children how to read and write without[…]

2003, Irina Paert, Old Believers: Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 78:

Help your co-believer who is in need of help, if it is safe to do so with their permission. 10. Those who sin must be corrected. Yahweh has given us His new Laws in order to hold one another accountable, in regards to the new agreement.

2021 June 29, The Prophet Naziyr, The Holy Book of the Prophesied Counselor: A Reference Guide to Spiritual Freedom, iUniverse, →ISBN:

[…] way who should use the same technical apparatus, making the same distinctions, etc., but drawing opposite conclusions and denying free-will entirely, would fascinate the first philosopher far more than would the naïf co-believer.

2021 June 14, William James, The Complete Works of William James. Illustrated: The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing:

Someone who shares one's faith; a brother in faith.


shabbaton

At a Shabbaton dedicated to Jewish music, each participant was asked to introduce himself or herself in a few sentences.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 74:

(Judaism) A shabbat-long or weekend-long educational gathering.


hakafot

I told him that he was right and that his request was timely, as Simchat Torah, one of the most joyous festivals of the year featuring the hakafot (procession of Torah scrolls), would take place in three weeks.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 37:

(Judaism) A procession of people making circuit around something.


Resh Galuta

Yekum purkan is said every Sabbath but not on festivals occurring on weekdays because the ceremony of honoring the Raysh Galuta ("the Prince of the Exile") took place only on the Sabbath.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 374:


Sefer Torah

bor+

סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה

(Judaism) A scroll of the Torah, a handwritten parchment containing the Pentateuch


hexaple

From Ancient Greek ἑξαπλᾶ (hexaplâ), neuter plural of ἑξαπλοῦς (hexaploûs, “sixfold”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “hexa-: six”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”).


hexapla

A text presented in six parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.


tetraples

From French tétraples, from Ancient Greek τετραπλᾶ (tetraplâ), neuter plural of τετραπλοῦς (tetraploûs, “fourfold”), from τετρα- (tetra-, “tetra-: four”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”).


octaples

From French octaples, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.


octapla

From Late Latin octapla, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

A text presented in eight parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Bible presented in such a fashion by Origen.


Gabbatha

From Ancient Greek Γαββαθᾶ (Gabbathâ), from Aramaic [Term?].

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:13:

(biblical) The Aramaic name of a place in Jerusalem, thought to be the place of the trial of Jesus before his crucifixion


Ushpizin

bor

Hebrew אושפיזין

In the Syrian tradition the eight stanzas, honoring the seven Ushpizin plus Elisha and Melekh hamashi'ah, are assigned to different worshipers to recite.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 322:

the seven guests who spiritually visit the sukkah during Sukkot.


Kisei Eliyahu

Borrowed from Hebrew כיסא אליהו / כִּסֵּא אֵלִיָּהוּ (literally “chair of Elijah”).

he-l

כִּסֵּא אֵלִיָּהוּ

The head of the household instructs his children not to use this chair, similar to the 'Kisay Eliyahu ("Elijah's Chair"), which is used for the Brit Milah only.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 333:

The chair in which the sandek sits during brit milah, dedicated to the prophet Elijah.


Kohen Gadol

bor

Hebrew כהן גדול

This utterance was originally a response by the people when they heard the Tetragrammaton from the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) on Yom Kippur and every day on Birkat Kohanim.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer:


seudah shlishit

Borrowed from Hebrew סְעוּדָה שְׁלִישִׁית (literally “third meal”).

bor+

סְעוּדָה שְׁלִישִׁית

Some explain that including Tzidkatekha after Minhah is because it is customary to eat Se'udah Shelishit ("the third meal"), and the Talmud states, "He who observes the three meals on the Sabbath is saved from three evils: the travails of the Massiah, the retribution of Gehinnom, and the wars of Gog and Magog."

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 327:

(Judaism) The third meal eaten on the Sabbath.


bekhor

The father is required to give the Kohen "five shekels of silver" for redeeming the bekhor ("firstborn").

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 287:


Kriat Shema

From Hebrew קְרִיאַת שְׁמַע.

der

קְרִיאַת שְׁמַע

Hebrew קְרִיאַת שְׁמַע

Another reason for Keri'at Shema is that it alludes to the Ten Commandments.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 294:


shirah

It is a day similar in solemnity to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur when shirah ("praise") is not offered, as the Musaf service on Rosh Hodesh reads, Zeman kapparah lekhol toldotam ("a time for forgiveness throughout their generations").

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 229:

Israel will imitate the angels by saying the shirah of the angels.

2001, Max Kadushin, Worship and Ethics: A Study in Rabbinic Judaism, Global Academic Publishing, →ISBN, page 149:

(Judaism) Praise to god in the form of song


kavanah

The Gaon of Vilna (Ha-Gra) also opposed saying the formula Leshaym Yihud as well as Hineni mukhan umezuman ("Behold I am prepared and ready") since precepts do not require kavanah.

(Judaism) Heartfelt intent during prayer, as opposed to roteness.


Olam Haba

bor

Hebrew העולם הבא

Maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa.

1997 January 11, li...@interport.net, “Lesbianism in Halakha”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) The Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds


tefillah shel yad

en-noun

tefillah shel yad (plural tefillin shel yad)

If a person is left-handed, however, then the right hand is weaker and the Tefillah shel yad is placed on that hand.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 217:

A leather strap wrapped around the hand as part of tefillin.


Newchurchman

(historical, Christianity) A member of the New Church; a Swedenborgian.


Sefirat Ha'Omer

Transliteration of Hebrew סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

translit

סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

The forty-nine words in the psalm also correspond to the seven days of Sefirat Ha'omer and the seven verses in the psalm correspond to the seven weeks one counts the Omer.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 208:

counting of the Omer
counting of the Omer

(Judaism, Samaritanism) The counting of the Omer; the ritual of saying what day of the Omer it is.


Antidicomarian

(historical, Christianity) A member of a Christian sect, active from the 3rd to the 5th century, who refused to accord any special status to Mary, mother of Jesus, and rejected the doctrine of her perpetual virginity.


antimins

From Ancient Greek Ἀντιμήνσιον (Antimḗnsion).

(Christianity) A rectangular piece of linen or silk, usually decorated with religious emblems and inscriptions, and containing a small relic of a martyr.


Shahbagi

From Bengali শাহবাগী (śahbagī), from Bengali শাহবাগ (śahobag), a locality in Dhaka, Bangladesh that was home to the 2013 Shahbag protests. Doublet of Shahbag.

What happens if Shahbagi eats biryani, I can't control my greed when I see Jafar Iqbal Sir's book.

2021 July 11, Emily Anderson, Speed of the Wind, Emily Books House:

...entire villages could serve as witnesses. As a Shahbagi noted,...

2016 January 29, Navine Murshid, “The genocide of 1971 and the politics of justice”, in Ali Riaz, editor, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh, Routledge, →ISBN, page 56; republished as Sajjadur Rahman, Mohammad, editor, (Please provide a date or year):

(Bangladesh, politics, slang, derogatory) An ardent left-wing netizen, especially an atheist or Islamophobe


satanous

en-adj

satanous (comparative more satanous, superlative most satanous)

more satanous (comparative)
most satanous (superlative)

Maybe the last Sunday in will be a new holy day of obligations to celibrate the day the truely faithful rebuffed the satanous ATF :-)

1993 March 5, James Felder, “Jesus is alive in Waco, Texas!!!!!!!!!!!”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-15:

hmm... i have to agree about the evil kia commercials and their names in general... AND the entire Chrysler corporation, which, under the satanous paws of iococca, killed several towns in wisconsin, including my hometown, kenosha... bitterness aside. ah well...

1999 May 30, Thomas Dempster, “-O- lame names for cars”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-15:

VOF: Why you satanous bastard mofo, go eff yourself.

2007 February 11, Timmah, “PMS is Live in festival 2-11-07”, in alt.fan.gene-scott (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-15:


Rome rule

(derogatory, chiefly historical) The control of an autonomous or independent Ireland by the Pope and the Catholic Church, as claimed by Protestant unionists.


Buraq

Borrowed from Arabic البُرَاق (al-burāq).

bor+

(Islam) The horse-like creature that Muhammad is said to have ridden during the Night Journey.


hindouism

(non-native speakers' English) Alternative letter-case form of Hindouism.


Hindouism

So, MrGoodSalt, pray tell, why should I choose Christianity over one of the other Big Three religions, such as Judaism or Islam? Or perhaps I shall go Eastern, what with Buddhism and Hindouism... or I could go back to the *really* ancient religions and choose Wicca or some other pagan-type religion, or perhaps go Ancient Greek? So many choices, so little hope for salvation...

2000 March 12, DarkAngel, “I'm a little confused”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-16:

They took their name from the religion class, I suppose, because we learn about catholicism and bouddhism^([sic]) and hindouism and all..

2001 June 28, DarkSunMoon, “power ballads”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.gnr (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-16:

The hindouists do not worship trees, earth, or human. As I know the several divinities in hindouism are differents^([sic]) ways, and different faces of God; Krshna for example has many names, they represent his multiple qualities like in Islam Allah has many names.

2003 September 28, spek, “Muhammad”, in alt.france (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-16:

And the real freedom of religion is leaving any people beleive^([sic]) on what he want without being disturbed. You can find that freedom in most of the religions like Bouddhism,^([sic]) Hindouism, Shamanism that americans have killed, islam, ... Except in christian country where nobody can live without being disturbed by any missionary people who will come to tell his lies!

2004 September 10, MuhammadColumbo, “Peace with musulims?”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-16:

Nothing wrong with the quality of my English for it is what you can comprehend.
Islam is far better Hindouism. And the Muslims better people than those worshippers of thousand millions gods

2012 April 3, Sabona, “Re: Islam Dismantled”, in alt.history (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-16:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of Hinduism.


arahitogami

Borrowed from Japanese 現人神(あらひとがみ) (arahitogami).

(Shinto) A deity in human form in Shinto religion.

one of ten major incarnations by the Hindu god Vishnu as a man upon Earth

historically used to refer to the Emperor of Japan when he was worshipped as a living god


demonkin

Equivalent to demon + -kin (from otherkin).

Someone who identifies as a demon or demonic being.


bedikat chametz

בְּדִיקַת חָמֵץ

(Judaism) The search for chametz throughout the household prior to Passover.


Yakubian

en-adj

Yakubian (comparative more Yakubian, superlative most Yakubian)

more Yakubian (comparative)
most Yakubian (superlative)

my question is. . .who's more detrimental to hip-hop----the north-faced goons that line up for eminem, the indie rockers that dig coflow, or the "post-label shapeshifting yakubian legions" (to paraphrase one of pedestrian's finer turns of phrase) who jock the fellowship?

1999 January 13, nfri...@haverford.edu, “Last night's Eminem show.”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

but yo, doesn't e have special significance to the nation, as they feel placing the "I" before "E" except after "C" preferences the (now known to be unintellible) internalist notion find intelligibility's primacy in the subjectivized I (a la) rather then the involved 5 senses (here signed in e, the fifth letter of the alphabet) unless that sense is sight, which is sufficiently detached for whitey's yakubian purposes.

1999 August 31, hypochristmutreefuzz, “A Conspiracy among White Rappers?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Have you noticed that we're livin' in a police state?! YT (for those that don't know after 13 years of DGT, say it faster, also standz for Yakubian Tribe) has deceitfully and silently made it so, right before our eyes!

2007, M'Bwebe Aja Ishangi, Analitikul Cogitationz:

IRON MIKE... HEAR MY PLEA... SEND THAT YAKUBIAN DEVIL JAKE PAUL DIRECTLY INTO THE PITS OF HELL

2024 March 14, jan (@janitorsupreme), X (formerly Twitter), archived from the original on 2024-09-21:

(Nation of Islam, Internet slang, derogatory) Pertaining to Yakub, used to describe white people.


antienthusiastic

antienthusiastic (comparative more antienthusiastic, superlative most antienthusiastic)

more antienthusiastic (comparative)
most antienthusiastic (superlative)

(religion, historical) Opposing the idea of enthusiasm, or divine possession.


fictionkin

Otakukin sound like something out of a science fiction or fantasy novel. However, that is precisely what they are. Most simply stated, otakukin (or fictionkin) are humans who, in a past life, were someone or something else, drawn out of multiple universes or worlds.

2009, American Folklore Meeting, Program and Abstracts, page 95:

This community was originally for those who believe themselves to be fictionkin/mediakin/otakukin, however we accept Soulbonders with Bonds from fictional sources, people who are unsure or the plain old curious folks.

2014, Danielle Kirby, Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives, and Digital Cultures, page 47:

Once such group's members subscribe to a metaphysics that considers fictional worlds fully real, or that regards what most view as reality as another fiction. Included here are fictionkin and mediakin, people who claim spiritual or soul […]

2018, Hugh Urban, Greg Johnson, Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions:

An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind, whether it be as a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc. Depending on the individual, some who identify as fictionkin may also categorize their experience as an experience within otherkinity or therianthropy.


mediakin

Simultaneously, the Otherkin highly proximate relationship to popular fictional narrative clearly locates such beliefs within the framework of hyper-real religiosity. This relationship becomes most apparent within the context of Otakukin and Mediakin, and related concepts such as soulbonding, but is nonetheless present within the broader community as well.

2012, Adam Possamai, Handbook of Hyper-real Religions:

2014, Danielle Kirby, Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives, and Digital Cultures, page 46:

Once such group's members subscribe to a metaphysics that considers fictional worlds fully real, or that regards what most view as reality as another fiction. Included here are fictionkin and mediakin, people who claim spiritual or soul [...]


phantomist

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) One who believes that Christ's corporeal body was an illusion.


magyckal

magyckal (comparative more magyckal, superlative most magyckal)

more magyckal (comparative)
most magyckal (superlative)

I'm not sure about the precise genus and species of the various magyckal creatures gamboling in the background, but I suspect that EarthLink employs a few trolls.

2005 September 19, James Kibo Parry, “Disturbing commercial #20050920a.”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Never!!! That would be revealing my sooper seekrit magyckal skillZz and chit..

2006 September 22, blu, “PING Froup”, in alt.buzzard.rules (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

"Tis precisely what I think happened," Elyzabeth told them. "and even though the self-styled witches had no magyckal powers, I ken they bound Eustacia to a promise to use her's for the good of the coven."

2021, Sue Buttermark, Confessions of A Faerie Princess: Sorcery School Summer:

(uncommon, sometimes humorous) Alternative spelling of magical.


Compitalia

(religion, historical) An annual Ancient Roman festival in honour of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways met.


Keter

(Judaism) The topmost of the sefiroth of the tree of life in Kabballah.


yom tov

From Hebrew יוֹם טוֹב (yom tov). Pronunciation from Yiddish יום־טובֿ (yontev).

(Judaism) A major religious holiday, on which a certain set of rules and prohibitions applies.


tefillah shel rosh

en-noun

tefillah shel rosh (plural tefillin shel rosh)

(Judaism) The portion of the tefillin that is worn on the head.


chovah

bor

Hebrew חוֹבָה

That the evening prayer and Hanuka prayer in the Grace after the meal, can change from a "Rshut" to a "Chovah".

1983, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis: Position Papers of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America:

(Judaism) A ritual that is not commanded in the Torah but that is still considered mandatory.


Four Species

The four plant-parts shaken as a unit on Sukkot


milchemet reshut

(Judaism) A war commanded by a ruler rather than God.

The war in Southeast Asia, far from being a milchemet chovah in the defense of South Vietnam, is a milchemet reshut against the entire civilian population of all Vietnam.

1995, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Marc Lee Raphael, An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History : in Honor of Moses Rischin, Carlson Pub, →ISBN:

(Judaism) A war not fought out of necessity.


besamim

From Hebrew בְּשָׂמִים (b'samím), plural of בושם / בֹּשֶׂם (bósem).

he-m

בושם / בֹּשֶׂם (bósem)

Ashkenazim use a combination of cloves and bay leaves for besamim, as well as other pickling spices.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 170:

A spice mixture used for its scent on Havdalah.


milchemet chovah

(Judaism) A war fought out of necessity.


tashlikh

From Hebrew תַּשְׁלִיךְ.

bor

Hebrew תַּשְׁלִיךְ

(Judaism) A ritual practiced on Rosh Hashanah of throwing pieces of bread into a body of water, symbolically disposing of one's sins.


hagalah

Hebrew הַגְעָלָה

(Judaism) The process of putting eating utensils into boiling water to kasher them.


amud

Hebrew עַמּוּד

In many congregations it is customary for the Reader to chant Hamelekh while standing in his place or near the amud (prayer desk) and then to walk to it with a bowed head and to conclude, "Who is sitting on a high and lofty throne."

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 145:


Matan Torah

From Hebrew מַתַּן תּוֹרָה.

מַתַּן תּוֹרָה

Hebrew מַתַּן תּוֹרָה

(Judaism) The giving of the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai


zimrah

Hebrew זִמְרָה

A table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night.


biur chametz

The process of destroying (as by burning) the chametz in one's possession before Passover.


table song

Of unknown authorship, it seems that it was sung as a Sabbath table-song and a festival table-song for holidays in general.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 122:

A hymn sung communally by Ashkenazi Jews at the dinner-table.


begottenness

(theology) The quality of being begotten.


Admonitionist

(historical, Christianity) A supporter of the Admonition to the Parliament of 1572, which denounced the bishops of England and called for the replacement of Episcopalianism with presbyterianism.


Great Mother

In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:


Great Goddess

Gone is the obese Great Goddess; come is the sleek young maid, the Queen of Heaven.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:


three poisons

(Buddhism) The three root kleshas of Moha (delusion and confusion), Raga (greed and sensual attachment) and Dvesha (aversion and hate), which are considered to be innate in a being.


mishloach manot

From Hebrew מִשְׁלֹחַ מָנוֹת (mishlóach manót).

מִשְׁלֹחַ מָנוֹת

In the morning when saying Sheheheyanu, the Sheli'ah Tzibbur and worshipers should keep in mind the special mitzvot, such as Mishlo'ah manot (sending foodstuff to friends) and the festive Purim se'udah (feast) that are performed during the day without any designated blessing.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 115:

(Judaism) The sending of gifts of food for Purim, or the food given.


Aranyaka

(Hinduism) Any part of the ancient Indian Vedas concerned with the meaning of ritual sacrifice.


Romuva

From Lithuanian Romuva, a Baltic pagan temple known in mediaeval records as Romowe. The term "Romuva" means "sanctuary" or "adobe of inner peace", from the Baltic root ram-/rām- (peaceful, quiet), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-.

(religion) a neopagan religion from Lithuania that practices reconstructions of the ancient Baltic polytheistic religion.


Armageddonism

(Christianity) Belief in the coming Armageddon.


Armageddonist

(Christianity) One who believes in the coming Armageddon.


Ascensiontide

en-noun

Ascensiontide (usually uncountable, plural Ascensiontides)

(Christianity) The period from Ascension Day (39 days after Easter) until Whitsunday (49 days after Easter).


Assumptionist

(Christianity) A member of the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, a worldwide congregation of Catholic priests and brothers.


asterikos

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy) A metal cross that is placed over the diskos to prevent the veil from touching the host.


Asherite

/ˈæ.ʃəˌɹaɪt/

[ˈæʃɚ.ʌɪ̯t̚]

A descendant of Asher, eighth son of Jacob.

A descendant or member of the tribe of Asher.


Asherite

/ˈæ.ʃəˌɹaɪt/

[ˈæʃɚ.ʌɪ̯t̚]

Of or pertaining to Asher, or to the tribe of Asher.

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


Antevorta

(Roman mythology) An ancient Roman goddess of the future.


Athanasianist

(Christianity) A supporter of the Athanasian Creed.


Athanasianism

(Christianity) Support for the Athanasian Creed.


Audianism

(historical, Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Audians.


Audian

Named after their founder Audius or Audaeus.

(historical, Christianity) A member of a fourth-century Christian sect in Syria and Scythia, who took literally the text of Genesis stating that God created mankind in his own image.


korban todah

From Hebrew קָרְבָּן תּוֹדָה.

bor

קָרְבָּן תּוֹדָה

Hebrew קָרְבָּן תּוֹדָה

When reciting the Gomayl blessing, one should stand because this benediction is offered instead of the Korban Todah (thank-offering), which was performed while standing.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 100:


Shinar

And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:2:

In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar.

2022 April 11, Jonathan Haidt, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid”, in The Atlantic:

(biblical) The southern region of Mesopotamia.


JAWI

w:ms:Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (“Islamic Religious Department of the Federal Territory, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAIS

Islamic law enforcement agency in Selangor


JAKIM

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (“Department of Islamic Development Malaysia”).


Chamisha Chumshei Torah

From Hebrew חמשה חומשי תורה, five-fifths of the Torah.

der

חמשה חומשי תורה

Hebrew חמשה חומשי תורה


collectarium

(Roman Catholicism) A book that contains the collects (type of prayer).


Collegiant

(Christianity, historical) A member of an association of Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland, founded in 1619, who held a college (meeting) on the first Sunday of each month at which everyone had the same liberty of expounding the scripture and praying.


alt.atheist

What alt.atheists believe. (To clarify, I am coining a new term "alt.atheist" to avoid the baggage of existing terms).

1990 September 21, Jim Perry, “Front-door Atheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

The thing is that atheists (or, at least, alt.atheists) do not hold science as religion, but as science. Science-as-religion is held by some half-assedly-educated laymen, of which you do not see many here (your opinion of somne alt.atheists notwithstanding).

1997 October 14, MindFlayer, “Atheists and Aliens”, in alt.paranormal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Irrelevant. The persons whose behavior *is* described in my posts *are* numbered alt.atheists. No matter how many alt.atheists don't do X, the fact that two or more do X enables me to truthfully say that alt.atheists do X. As I showed in my example, *you* are the one making the generalization based upon the specifics.
I am consistently referring to specifics.

2002 February 12, Tichy, “Grading Alt.atheism's use of the Twit List”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

> I don't consider myself an alt.atheist. I consider myself an atheist who posts to alt.atheist. There are other things I do besides this, y'know, and it's incorrect to say that I'm an "alt.atheist", as if it is something different than "regular atheist".
I wasn't trying to say different. By alt.atheist I meant the typical atheist I have meet at alt.atheism. I am not saying that alt.atheists are different in any other way.

2005 April 5, keit...@yahoo.com, “The Atheist Lie”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Everyone who jabs at alt.atheists is a Christian.

2014 June 17, jackpi...@gmail.com, “How many alt.atheists does ot take to screw in a lightbulb?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.atheism.


sci.skeptic

AS> You try to discredit any of the sources that are provided,
I assume you mean other sci.skeptics; me, I haven't looked at your sources yet (I only just received some that might be accessible to me).

1993 February 27, phil...@stsci.edu, “Afrocentrism”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

I think this thread is a perfect example of why most scientists (and us sci.skeptics) hold Philosophy of Science in such low regard.

1994 May 14, DaveHatunen, “Feyerabend's Against method: a proposal for debate”, in sci.philosophy.tech (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

I made a suggestion of something new to the sci.skeptics who hate Christianity but love Judaism.

2001 January 16, Matt Giwer, “More formal (mathematical) proof of prehistorical transatlantic contacts”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.skeptic.


Macaulay's children

Sanatani

a devout Hindu who values traditionalist Hinduism

From Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British politician who made English the language used by higher levels of formal education in India. The term refers to his views towards traditional Indian culture and the Hindu religion, which he described as stagnant and unfit for the modern world.

(India, derogatory, slang, politics, ethnic slur) Indian people who reject their native culture in favour of westernization.


Khalistani

en-adjective

Khalistani (comparative more Khalistani, superlative most Khalistani)

more Khalistani (comparative)
most Khalistani (superlative)

From Khalistan + -i. Derived from Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ (xālistān, literally “place of Khalsa”).

der

(India) Related to Khalistan, a name for the Punjab region of northern India.

Hindu and Sikh groups in Canada came together on Monday to pass a resolution against Khalistani groups. According to sources, a meeting was conducted by the Khalsa Diwan Society Ross Street Vancouver Gurudwara where 36 societies of Hindus and Sikhs participated with almost 1,000 people present. The groups passed a resolution against Khalistani extremists and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

2024 November 4, “Hindu, Sikh Groups in Canada Pass Resolution Against Khalistanis And Trudeau”, in News18:

(Indian politics) Supporting a militant separatist movement that advocates for a separate Sikh state by waging war against the Indian government.


Khalistani

A member or supporter of the Khalistan movement.


Vigilantian

en-adj

Vigilantian (comparative more Vigilantian, superlative most Vigilantian)

more Vigilantian (comparative)
most Vigilantian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Vigilantius (fl. c. 400), Christian presbyter who wrote a work, now lost, that opposed a number of common fifth-century practices, and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420).


Helvidian

Helvidian (comparative more Helvidian, superlative most Helvidian)

more Helvidian (comparative)
most Helvidian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Helvidius, the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary.


Helvidian

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Helvidius' religious views.


Flacian

(Christianity, historical) A Gnesio-Lutheran.

(Christianity, historical) An adherent of Matthias Flacius' view of original sin, rejected by the Formula of Concord.


Gnesio-Lutheran

(Christianity, historical) A member of a theological party in the Lutheran churches, in opposition to the Philippists after the death of Martin Luther and before the Formula of Concord.


Bonosian

Bonosian (comparative more Bonosian, superlative most Bonosian)

more Bonosian (comparative)
most Bonosian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Bonosus of Sardica, a bishop of Sardica in the latter part of the fourth century, who taught against the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary.


Bonosian

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Bonosus' religious views.


Philippism

(Christianity, historical) The beliefs of the Philippists.


Philippist

(Christianity, historical) A member of a party in early Lutheranism who opposed the Gnesio-Lutherans.


hindouist

(non-native speakers' English) Alternative letter-case form of Hindouist.


halukka

From Hebrew חלוקה (literally “division, distribution”).

bor

(Judaism, historical) An organized collection and distribution of charity funds for Jewish residents of the Land of Israel.


Hindouist

Greek or roman, as well as hindouist polytheisms are not "real" polytheisms, which could mean that many "God-like" supreme being would be at the origin of the universe, man and so on.

1998 August 26, Thomas Thierry, “Deism vs. Pantheism”, in alt.religion.deism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-10:

5. dynasty swa (môn-khmer with hindouist civilisation; perhaps from lin-yi kingdom or champa of actual center vietnam) xieng dong xieng thong became muang swa; 8 kings.

2003 July 31, drsouk, “Royal Lao Descendant”, in soc.culture.laos (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-10:

The name is a reference to the hindouist god siva often represented with many arms.

2004 October 23, Stephane Payrard, “[perl #32117] [PATCH] new multifacetted pmc: siva”, in perl.perl6.internals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-10:


Hindouist

We have to doe an interview about the religion "Hindouism" for our school.
Our question is if somebody, being a Hindouist, is willing to give us an interview about his/hers religion.

1996 March 4, luck...@pop.pi.net, “interview”, in alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-10:

Actually, Greeks and Romans (which I know better than Hindouists) are factual "monotheist" if we consider that monotheism is based on a "One first cause" system.

Yes, the official figures (more or less) gives around 1929 millions, whose 1093 are catholics. WSecond largest are muslims, with 1075 m; third are hindouists, with 745 m; fourth are chinese religions, with 363m, 5th are ethnical beliefs, 232m; (I discarded agnostic and athees, 961 m). Jews are only 15 m.

2000 September 8, roger gonnet, “San Jose picket”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-10:


triunitarianism

(theology) Trinitarianism; the Christian doctrine which asserts that God's nature is triune.


Medjed

Borrowed from Egyptian mḏd (“Medjed”, literally “the true-striking”).

bor+

(Egyptian mythology) A minor god mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.


Ṭūbā

Transliteration of Arabic طُوبَى (ṭūbā).


halitzah

bor

Hebrew חֲלִיצָה

Halitzah carries with it the implication of shame on the male who by refusing to marry his sister-in-law is guilty of not fulfilling his obligation to his dead brother and his dead brother's estate.

1995 January 15, AB...@aol.com, “Levirate Marriage”, in soc.genealogy.jewish (Usenet):

To discourage sexual attraction between brothers and sisters-in-law, later Jewish law expressed a clear preference for ḥalitzah (the ritual of the sandal) rather than levirate marriage.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1134:

(Judaism) A rite by which a widow absolves herself of the duty of levirate marriage.


Hindumisia

From Hindu + -misia (as in misogyny or misotheism). Sometimes used as an alternative to the word Hinduphobia, to point out hatred towards Hindus or Hinduism as opposed to being afraid of Hindus or Hinduism.

(India, neologism, rare) Hatred of Hinduism and Hindu people.


Quarantine

Than turned we vp in to Quarantene

a. 1500, The Pilgrymage and the Wayes of Jerusalem ("Stations of Jerusalem"), HM 144, [https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/manifest/c7848d41bd1fed02b0af37c3a5bf7359f61fa800?tify={%22pages%22:[170],%22view%22:%22thumbnails%22} fol. 80 rev.]

Mount of Temptation
Mount of Temptation#English


Lutyens' media

From Edwin Lutyens, a British architect who designed the city of New Delhi, which was also known as "Lutyens' Delhi".
Because it contained the Parliament building, it was also known as "Lutyens' zone", and the name "Lutyens" became associated with leftist politicians.

(India, derogatory, slang, Hindutva) Leftist-aligned mass media.


Hindumisic

en-adj

Hindumisic (comparative more Hindumisic, superlative most Hindumisic)

more Hindumisic (comparative)
most Hindumisic (superlative)

(India, neologism, rare) Showing hostility and hatred against Hinduism and Hindu people.

(India, politics) Opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


Nizam-e-Mustafa

From Urdu نظام مصطفى, made of Arabic نظام (“law, order”) and Arabic مصطفى (“the Chosen One [by God], a title for the Prophet Muhammad”). Literally means "the order of the Chosen One".

bor

Urdu نظام مصطفى

der

the Chosen One 􂀿by God􂁀, a title for the Prophet Muhammad

(Islam, Pakistan, India) the ideal society, ethics, and social norms of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dar al-Islam

the Muslim world in general, rather than one specific society or state


Quarentena

We went up mount Quarantena in company with ſome eccleſiaſticks, having an Arabian for our guide. Formerly the Arabians concealed themſelves in the cavities of this mountain, and would not ſuffer the Franks to come up; but at preſent the fathers of the Holy Land pay ten piaſters per annum caphar, or paſſage-money, and thus have free acceſs to the ſummit of it. The aſcent is very toilſome, being moſtly up a rock, that without aſſiſtance it would ſcarce be practicable in ſome places.

1759, translating Johannes Aegidius van Egmont van der Nijenburg & al. as Travels through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c., Vol. I, p. 329


Quarantania

II. Mount Quarantania

1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery, Pt. I: Divine Tragedy, Sect. I: "The First Passover"


Mount of Temptation

Monastery of the Temptation
Mount of Temptation

(Christianity mythology) The supposed location of the Temptation of Christ in the early 1st century.


Great Father

In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

(paganism, religion) The preeminent male deity of various religions.


urban Naxal

Coined by Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri in Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, a 2018 book about his 2014 film Buddha in a Traffic Jam. Referring to the group's alleged ties with communist militants for left-wing beliefs, support for socialism, and hostility to Hindu nationalism.

(Indian politics, derogatory, slang, chiefly Hindutva, politics) a liberal or a leftist.

Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva; Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva


Dhu'l-Qarnayn

From Arabic ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن (ḏū l-qarnayn).

bor

ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن

Arabic ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن (ḏū l-qarnayn)

(Islam) The powerful ruler (traditionally believed to be a reference to Alexander the Great) who built the wall that keeps Gog and Magog from attacking mankind.


Dhu'l-Qa'da

From Arabic ذُو الْقَعْدَة (ḏū l-qaʕda).

ذُو الْقَعْدَة

Arabic ذُو الْقَعْدَة (ḏū l-qaʕda)

The eleventh month of the Islamic calendar.


Dhu'l-Hijja

From Arabic ذُو الْحِجَّة (ḏū l-ḥijja), from Arabic ذُو (ḏū, “possessed of”) + Arabic الْحِجَّة (al-ḥijja, “the pilgrimage”).

ذُو الْحِجَّة

Arabic ذُو الْحِجَّة (ḏū l-ḥijja)

compound

Having performed the rites of Pilgrimage, on the twentieth day precisely of Dhu'l-Hijjah I went out of Mecca in company with the commander of al-Iraq.

1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 54

Stay at Arafat on 9th Dhu al-Hijjah from after dawn to slightly after sunset (when pilgrims proceed to Muzdalfa).

2003, Arshad Khan, Islam 101: Principles and Practice, page 60:

The twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar, during which the hajj takes place.


tamid

Borrowed from Hebrew תָמִיד (“always, regularly”).

bor+

The tamid offering is to be financed by all the people, not merely by the leaders or by the rich.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 930:

(biblical) The twice-daily sacrifice of two male lambs by the priesthood.


takkanah

According to a takkanah (enactment) of the chief rabbinate of Palestine in 1943, in Israel daughters inherit on an equal footing with sons.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 926:

A law created by the rabbis not derived from Biblical commandments.


ABY

(Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of York.


'aqida

en-noun

'aqida (countable and uncountable, plural 'aqa'id)


Ivanovism

new religious movement
new religious movement

A Slavic neopagan new religious movement based on the teachings of the Russian mystic Porfiry Ivanov (1898–1983), who elaborated his doctrines by drawing upon Russian folklore.


wazukhana

From Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā) / Urdu وضو خانا (vazūxānā, “washing court”), from वज़ू (vazū) / وضو (vazū, “washing, wudu”) + ख़ाना (xānā) / خانا (xānā, “court”).

bor

Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā)

(India, Pakistan, Islam) a pool in a mosque where worshippers wash themselves as wudu before praying.


peot

Borrowed from Hebrew פּאות (pe'ot) or Yiddish פּאות (peyes).

With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.

1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18:

'Manny? Sweet? Manny doesn't do sweet.'
'Every man does sweet, Max. Even weird ones with payess.'

He showed me the items in his den, or “trophy room” — the cardboard cutout of Sinatra wearing Jewish payos, the portrait of King made entirely of jelly beans, his Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.

2015 August 29, Mark Leibovich, The New York Times:

Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

pejzy

sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews


istighfar

اِسْتِغْفَار

Arabic اِسْتِغْفَار (istiḡfār)

(Islam) Act of asking God for forgiveness

istigfar

(Islam) act of asking God for forgiveness


cow-mother

A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

(religion) A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.


Free Will Baptist

en-noun

Free Will Baptist (plural Free Will Baptists)

(Christianity) A member of a General Baptist Christian denomination which believes in free grace, free salvation and free will.


Clarissian

For a commentary on the range of Clarissian criticism, see...

1986, Helen O. Molitor, “Modern Isms and the Lovejovian Universe”, in Man and Nature, volume 5, page 128:

Along with the charism of the Teresian Carmel, other cloistered orders exist in South Korea, namely the Carthusians, the Complative Missionary Fraternity, Dominicans, Clarissian sisters and the Cistercians.

2008 November 21, Theresa Kim, “Comtemplatives in Korea...”, in PIME AsiaNews:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Clarissan: Of or relating to the Order of Saint Clare; of or relating to someone named Clarissa.


Clarissian

In 1260, the Clarissians moved to the convent of Santa Chiara in town; afterwards, the church became a Fransciscan friary...

1992, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, page 322:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarist

His wife desired to enter a convent of Clarists.

1840, Kenelm Henry Digby, Mores Catholici, page 404:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.


Clarist

Soon after I arrived in Kerala, during a period when I was making frequent visits to Alphonsa's shrine in Bharananganam, a few of the Clarist nuns decided that I should take a trip up into the nearby mountain range to meet a gentleman they thought would be of great help to me in my research.

2001, Corinne G. Dempsey, Kerala Christian Sainthood, page 18:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Clarissan: of or related to the Order of Saint Clare.


Poor Lady

Originally an epithet of St Clare of Assisi herself.

...his widow became a Poor Lady in the convent of Strala, where she long fulfilled the office of abbess...

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:


Clarissine

From French clarissine, from Clarisse + -ine.


Clarissine

...she returned shortly thereafter to Austria where she lived from 1313 until her death in the Clarissine monastery of Ko:nigsfelden

2019, Attila Zsoldos, The Árpáds and Their Wives, page 199:


Clarissan

Strict enclosure presented additional complexities when the convent churches were open to the lay public, as was the case in the Clarissan order ("Poor Clares").

2005, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, c. 1213–1340”, in Medieval Religion: New Approaches, page 249:

There are two commissions for the Clarissan order (or Poor Clares), that warrant attention, the convent church at Santa Chiara in Bra and the convent church at Santa Chiara in Turin.

2021, William Stargard, “Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone's Architecture”, in Hemispheres and Stratospheres, page 46:

(Catholicism) Of or relating to the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissan

The rule of the Clarissans, who take their name from St Clara, was very strict.

1865, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Women's Work in the Church, page 130:


Sister Minoress

Sister Minoress (plural Sisters Minoress)

From sister + Minoress, q.v. Doublet of Sister Minor.

...the Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate...

1451, Rolls of Parliament, volume V, page 224:


minorite

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minorite: a Franciscan.


sister minoress

sister minoress (plural sisters minoress)

It appears that Catharine became a sister minoress of the house of Brisyerd, in Suffolk.

1823, William Hutchinson, History and Antiquities of Durham, volume III, page 84:

Alternative letter-case form of Sister Minoress.