Snapewife

The Snapewives are an extreme facet of a much larger fandom milieu.

2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 257

But the story of the Snapewives is inseparable from the story of the rise of Internet fan culture as a whole: the story of how we as a broader culture have transformed the way we insert ourselves—our loves, our wants, our desires, our chosen narratives—into the stories we consume.

2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

Although Brony tulpas and Snapewives may practice a unique kind of fandom, one might consider that fan fiction writings across a range of imaginary worlds do similar work by speculating what it might be like to interact with favourite characters.

2022, Andrew Monteith, "Transhumanism, Utopia, and the Problem of the Real in Ready Player One", The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2022, page 10

(fandom slang) A female adherent of the mid-2000s new religious movement Snapeism.


Snapeism

The question of what it takes to be monogamous with Snape is one of the many theological battles that plagued—and eventually destroyed—Snapeism.

2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 220

Alderton argues that Snapeism is a fiction-based religion, but the evidence she presents demonstrates that it is a very poor example of the category.

2018, Markus Altena Davidsen, “The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach”, in Markus Altena Davidsen, editor, Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction, unnumbered page:

However, Harry Potter fans have also formed religious cults of their own, one of the most popular examples being "Snapeism", a religion focused around the character of Severus Snape [2].

2023, Samuli Laato, Sampsa Rauti, & Juho Hamari, "Resemblance of religion and pervasive games: A study among church employees and gamers", CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2023, unnumbered page

new religious movement
new religious movement

(fandom slang) A new religious movement, emerging in the mid-2000s in online Harry Potter fandom, centered on the fictional character Severus Snape, with its female adherents professing a spiritual connection or astral marriage to him.


people's warden

en-noun

people's warden (countable and uncountable, plural people's wardens)

(UK, Christianity) A type of churchwarden elected annually by the congregation as a whole.


post-Catholic

Like Hunt, I am a postCatholic, but it is difficult for me to define Christians as justice-seeking.

1991, Carol Anne Douglas, “[Review of] Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship, Mary E. Hunt”, in Off Our Backs, volume 21, number 4, page 18b:

An advocate of a society with values postdating Catholicism.


Izhar

he-m

יִצְהָר (yitshár)


tahrif

(Islam) the belief that alterations were made to the previous revelations of God


Goloka

Borrowed from Sanskrit गोलोक (goloka, literally “cow’s world”), from a compound of गो (go, “cow”) + लोक (loka, “world, realm”).

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Gokul (or Goloka)—the innermost realm of love, is, like, Krishna’s Form all-pervading. At Krishna’s will Goloka revolves through all the worlds. From this it follows that Goloka is the realm of his eternal love-games, which successively manifests itself throughout the worlds.

1927, Charuchandra Guha, Krishna of Vrindabana, Bengal Library Book Depot, →OCLC, page 490:

(Hinduism) The celestial abode of the Hindu god Krishna and his chief consort goddess Radha.


moline cross

[…] a moline cross upon a shield, over which shield the words "MOLINE CROSS BRAND" appear, […]

1906, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 2421:

[…] it is a moline cross […]

2015 February 26, James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 211:


kirkmaster

From Middle English kirkmaster, kyrkmaster, equivalent to kirk + master.

(obsolete, Christianity, Northern UK) Alternative spelling of kyrkmaster


kyrkmaster

From Middle English kirkmaster, kyrkmaster, equivalent to kyrk + master. Piecewise doublet of churchmaster.

Item to the makyng of the stepell of Tykhill cˢ., a cart with iiij hors. Item to the kyrkmasters a nobill. Item to Kateryn, the doghter of Robert his son, a caldron, a pot, and a littell posnet. […] [6 Sep. 1429.]

1835, “CCCIV. Testamentum Johannis Sandford de Tikhill. [M. f. 563-b]”, in Testamenta Eboracensia; or, Wills Registered at York, […], London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 417:

Another entry shows that Henry Barry one of the witnesses to the grant, was at one time Kirkmaster:—"The Preuost and Counsall has grantit til Henry Barry and till Marione of Bum, his wyf, thar laris within the Kirk or queyr of Dunde, quhar thai pies til haff thame becaus the said Henry gef to the Kyrk werk his fee that pertenit til hym the tyme that he wes kyrkmaster, and a rest of silver that tha aucht till hym."

1886 February 8, John Shiell, “Notice of Carved Oak Panels Which Were Formerly in the Chapel of the Fransiscan Nunnery in Dundee”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume XX, Edinburgh, page 122:

"Upon a pew in Thornton Church is the following inscription cut in black letter upon oak:
" In the yer yat all the stalles
in thys chyrch wā mayd
Thomas Kijrkbe ihо̄n skre
bye hew resten ihon smyth
Kyrkmasters in the yer of owre Lorde God mccccc xxxii."

1898, Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, “Church Notes”, in The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, volume XXXIV, page 279:

[1507. 12 Nov.] […] "Provided allway that when soever the said Jamys Karr shall change his naturall lyfe, that then it shalbe lawfuU, as ofte tymes as it shalbe nedfuU, to the vicar of ye churche afforsaid for the tyme beyng and kyrkmasters of the same, heires executors and assignes to the said Jamys jontle, to electe one person beyng within holye orders, to be scole master of the gramer scole afforsaid, whiche so electe, and abled by the Prior of Duresme, shall have occupye and rejoce the said halfif acre of land and the hows therapon beildyd with the appurtenaunce, in lyk wyse as the said Jamys occupyed and usyd in hys tyme. […]”

1903, “Giggleswick Grammar School”, in Arthur Francis Leach, editor, Early Yorkshire Schools, volume II, […] J. Whitehead and Son for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, page 233:

At St. Andrews there was a special ' Master of the Kyrk werk ' or ' Kyrkmaster' responsible for the fabric of the parish church as early at least as 1503 ; in 1598 the office was still filled by a ' Kirkmaister.'

1907 October 14, David Patrick, “General Statutes of 1549”, in Statutes of the Scottish Church 1225-1559 […], Edinburgh: […] T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, page 119:

The kyrkmasters of the Trinete kyrk for a Garthen behynd the mason loge yerly

1983, “Rental of the Town's Land, 1465”, in Rosemary Horrox, editor, Selected Rentals and Accounts Medieval Hull 1293-1528, England: […] The University of Leeds Printing Service for the Yorkshire Archæological Society, page 116:

(obsolete, Christianity, Northern England, Scotland) A churchwarden.


Biblism

While dissemination of the Bible, without commentary, leads to the overthrow of all beliefs, the mysticism which one is supposed to reach through this Biblism leads to the conviction that the perfect security of the soul in the love of God renders unimportant the actions of the body, even those which were commonly held to be the most guilty.

1982, Henri Troyat, quoting the French embassy, translated by Joan Pinkham, Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, Inc., →ISBN, page 243:

(Christianity) A belief that the Bible is the sole authority in Christianity (rather than any subsequent tradition).


Marut

(Vedic religion, Hinduism) Maruts, storm deities and children of Rudra and Prishni.


Old Adam

(theology) A human nature of a sinful, unregenerate or unredeemed state.


team ministry

(Church of England) A ministry which administers multiple parishes.


Bhudevi

Borrowed from Sanskrit भूदेवी (bhūdevī).


Angala Devi

Borrowed from Tamil அங்காளதேவி (aṅkāḷatēvi).

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(Hinduism) a village goddess, manifestation of Parvati.


Periyalvar

Borrowed from Tamil பெரியாழ்வார் (periyāḻvār).

பெரியாழ்வார்

(Hinduism, Vaishnavism) One of the twelve alvar saints, foster father of Andal.


Iravan

Borrowed from Sanskrit इरावान् (irāvān).

(Hinduism) a village deity, character in Mahabharata; son of Arjuna and Ulupi.


Devi Kanya Kumari

Borrowed from Sanskrit देवी कन्या कुमारि (devī kanyā kumāri).

देवी कन्या कुमारि


karsevak

Transliteration of Hindi कारसेवक (kārsevak), in turn from Sanskrit कार (kāra, “work”) + सेवा (sevā, “service done with devotion”).

translit

The karsevaks built a new shelter to protect homeless people.

Huge number of karsevaks had gathered in Ayodhya in support for Ram temple campaign.

(India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism) A person who freely offers their service to a religious cause; particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.


Jakkamma

Borrowed from Tamil ஜக்கம்மா (jakkammā).

(Hinduism) a folk deity worshipped in Tamil Nadu.


Isakki

(Hinduism) a folk Hindu goddess primarily worshipped in South India.


Nappinnai

Borrowed from Tamil நப்பின்னை (nappiṉṉai).


Niladevi

Borrowed from Sanskrit नीलदेवी (nīladevī).

(Hinduism) a Hindu goddess, primarily worshipped in South India.


Pidari

(Hinduism) a Hindu deity, consort of Shiva.


Kannagi

(Hinduism) a character in Cilappatikaram, sometimes worshipped as a goddess of chastity.


Sudalai Madan

Borrowed from Tamil சுடலைமாடன் (cuṭalaimāṭaṉ).

(Tamil religion) a Dravidian folk religion deity, considered to be a son of Shiva and Parvati.


Madurai Veeran

Borrowed from Tamil மதுரைவீரன் (maturaivīraṉ).


Annamar

(Hinduism, Tamil religion) a Tamil village deity of the Nalavar and Pallar castes


Pavadairayan

Borrowed from Tamil பாவாடைராயன் (pāvāṭairāyaṉ).

(Hinduism) a folk and Hindu deity worshipped in Tamil Nadu.


Meenakshi

(Hinduism) a Hindu goddess, the tutelary deity of Madurai.


Perumal

(Hinduism) a Hindu deity, considered to be a form of Vishnu.


Uttarā

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तरा (uttarā)

lbor

परीक्षित् परीक्षित्

(Hinduism) Uttarā, wife of Abhimanyu and the mother of परीक्षित्.


Christmas Capital of the Philippines

en-proper noun

the Christmas Capital of the Philippines

After the Giant Lantern festivals held every Christmas in the capital of the province, San Fernando.

(Philippines, chiefly Pampanga) A nickname for Pampanga.


atheologian

From a- + theologian, or atheology + -an.

I leaue heere to your owne conſiderations, the places, examples, and authorities of holy Scripture,which are miſtaken, and this Monſiure might alleage. For of this aſſure your ſelues, theſe Atheologians, or maimed Diuines, will no more faile therein, then the Negromancers do, in the inuocation of their ſpirits, and diuels,or in their healing of diſeaſes.

1602, Étienne Pasquier, “The third Booke of the Ieſuits Catechiſme”, in The Ieſuites Catechiſme. Or Examination of their doctrine, page 135:

They of your ſociety , as they tooke their originall from a ſouldier,ſo they are the onely Atheologians whoſe heades entertaine no other obiect but the tumult of realmes; […]

1603, John Hayward, chapter 8, in An Answer to the First Part of a Certaine Conference, Concerning Svccesion, Pvblished not long ſince vnder the name of R. Dolman, London: […] Simon Waterſon,and Cuthbert Burbie:

To any one who knows what controversy really means the reading of such work as Dr. lightfoot.'s recently republished criticisms on Supernatural Religion, after the much-vaunted work of German theologians, or atheologians of the present day, or of their imitators and admirers in England, is like reading a proposition of Euclid after a speech of Mr. Gladstone's.

1889 December 28, “The Bishop of Durham”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 68, number 1783, London, page 729, column 1:

From this condition of our prevalent religious nurture we may distinctly trace the readiness of the Christian age to dispense with God and be satisfied with a fancied human evolution of the Christian morals that we are addicted to; according to the teaching of the brood of atheologians who are capturing our seminaries and invading our pulpits.

1904 December 14, “The Lordship of Christ”, in Salvation, volume VI, number 12, New York, page 368:

A person who is not a theologian, especially one who opposes theology.


Kriya

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā)

lbor

(Hinduism) Kriyā, (personified as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma; or as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu)


double monastery

en-noun

double monastery (plural double monasteries)

(Christianity) A monastery which combines separate communities of monks and nuns into a single institution.


aufruf

Borrowed from Yiddish אויפֿרוף (oyfruf, “summoning”), with the spelling influenced by German Aufruf.

bor+

My Hebrew is horrible, but my Haftarah trope's pretty good. :-) My father-in-law taught me the haftarah trope for my aufruf; that was my first one ever. I just did the haftarah yesterday (my excuse being my wife's birthday), and I'll use my birthday in a couple of months as my excuse for doing a third.

2003 May 25, Tim Meushaw, “Shabbat debut”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

At an aufruf I was at a few months ago, the groom's uncle did Adon Olam to the tune of "Rock Around The Clock". It worked amazingly well - it sounded like a one-man band on the bimah!

2003 October 10, Eliyahu Rooff, “Who shall live and who shall die, tra-la-la-la-la!”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) An aliyah (Torah reading) made by the bridegroom, typically on the Shabbat before the wedding; a gathering at which this occurs.


hashkama

(Judaism) An early-morning prayer service.


tircha d'tzibura

The last several weeks has seen Sephardi Haftaras being much shorter than the Ashkenazi one. What would be wrong with an Ashkenazi shul adopting the Sephardi Haftaras as a measure to cut down on Tircha D'Tzibura?

2002 October 28, Raphael, “The liturgy of Orthodox Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

The concept is that having got a minyan together for Minchah we don't expect them to go away and come back later (Tirchah detziburah) for Maariv.

2007 November 15, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “No Brakha on Someone Else's Talit?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) An inconvenience to the congregation.


metzora

a kohen does not "treat" tzoraas; there is in fact no medical treatment for tzoraas, the only cure being for the metzora to do teshuva, and it does not require a kohen to advise him how to do that

2009 September 5, Giorgies E. Kepipesiom, “The book is coming along well”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


tzibbur

Borrowed from Hebrew ציבור (“community”).

The phone company said they were working on it [the eruv] and the work would be completed during Friday evening. Can you trust them to the extent of informing the Tzibbur that they may not carry on Friday night but may on Shabbat morning?

2004 February 4, Henry Goodman, “Repairing an Eruv on Shabbat”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

At hashkama I sit in front of an annoying old man who is always correcting the Torah readers, a practice infuriating to the tzibbur and to the reader.

2008 January 13, Abe Kohen, “Cincinnati congregations”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


taharat hamishpacha

Borrowed from Hebrew טהרת המשפחה (“family purity”).

That's an _added_ bonus, like avoiding pork products avoids trichonosis or circumscised males are less prone to penile cancer and women who practice taharas hamishpacha are less prone to cervix cancer.

2003 May 18, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Actually, only 20% of the Jewish people left Eg”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

They are "offended" by the laws of taharas hamishpacha and bristle at the idea that women sit behind a mechitza.

2004 May 23, Susan Cohen, quoting Cindys, “Sheitel Burning in Israel”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Numerous scholars […] have opined on potential ways in which adherence to the mandates of taharat hamishpacha can benefit a marriage, including injecting a monthly sense of renewal into the husband-wife relationship, ensuring that the couple learns to relate to each other on levels beyond the physical, cultivating a husband's sensitivity towards his wife during a vulnerable time of the month, sanctifying the physical bond between husband and wife, and more.

2010, Shmuel Goldin, Unlocking the Torah Text: Vayikra, Gefen Publishing House, →ISBN, page 88:

The Jewish laws pertaining to menstruation, given in Leviticus.


Vasishtha

Borrowed from Sanskrit वसिष्ठ (vasiṣṭha).

(Hinduism) Vasishtha, husband of Arundhati, attributed as the author of the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda and one of the seven Saptarshis.


impastor

Anyways, please by all means, this man is an Impastor, and it is wrong of him to present himself as such.

2003 April 26, Celestial, “Belief in God”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

At least you have the common sense not to buy fake religions as touted round by impastors

2006 March 6, Les Hellawell, “Ignorant Atheist Idiots”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I felt even more like an impostor. Impastor.

2011, Greg Paul, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 119:

I'm not referring to tattoos. I'm referring the ungodly, foul-mouthed impastor in the back seat.

2014 November 13, @Protestia, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

It’s pretty well known so I’m surprised that all those moronic impastors are so progressive, unless…

2023 October 16, u/Cerberus_Rising, Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

In this cosplay, @TuckerCarlson plays the Leninist “useful idiot” to the self-ordained impastor, whose delusional desire for power, would round up liberal Episcopalians like Tucker & use blasphemy laws to “disappear” them all from their #datpostmil Utopia

2024 April 15, @DanielRHyde, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

American impastors using the Bible for unnecessary sermon illustrations is no different than this woman tearing it up.

2024 June 23, @farmingandJesus, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

(Christianity, informal, derogatory) Someone who pretends to be a pastor; a false teacher.


chatan

"So, who is the chosson," she asked. Her father told her the name, but of course she had no idea who he was or what he looked like. She asked if she could see him. "Of course you'll see him! You're going to marry him, and you'll see him for 120 years."

2002 May 22, R, “Dating a midrashh”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Another potential reason for leniency is the basic requirement of weddings that the ring must belong to the chatan (Shulchan Aruch E.H. 28). In fact, mesadrei kiddushin verify with the chatan that he owns the ring and did not simply borrow it. If the chatan forgot to bring the wedding ring, the mesader kiddushin will ensure that the "lender" of a replacement ring transfers the title of the ring to the chatan with proper kinyanim (halachic mechanisms of conveyance).

2008, Chaim Jachter, Ezra Fraser, Gray Matter: Volume 3, Ian Richmond, →ISBN, page 116:

Yesterday I traveled from Chicago to New Jersey for the day to attend an afternoon wedding at a place called the Venetian in Garfield New Jersey. The Chatan was the son of friends of mine.

2013 October 7, David Makowsky, “Wedding food”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


bitachon

(Judaism) Faith, trust, especially in God.


alien prior

(historical, Christianity) A foreign prior who is affiliated with an alien priory.


USI

Abbreviation of United Submitters International.


Hiranyakashipu

Borrowed from Sanskrit हिरण्यकशिपु (hiraṇyakaśipu).

(Hinduism) Hiranyakashipu, son of Kashyapa and Diti, father of Prahlada, slain by the Narasimha avatar of Vishnu.


Satya Yuga

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit सत्य युग (satya yuga).

ubor

(Hinduism) The first and best of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 1,728,000 years.


Horomazes

/hɒ.ɹəʊˈmɑːzɪs/

From Ancient Greek Ὡρομάζης (Hōromázēs), though Latin Hōromazēs, ultimately from Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁 (ahura mazdā).

(Zoroastrianism) Ahura Mazda, the divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the highest God.


mesader kiddushin

en-noun

mesader kiddushin (plural mesadrei kiddushin)


baal chesed

Borrowed from Hebrew בעל חסד (“master of kindness”).

bor+

The greatest ba'al chessed is one with the broadest notion of self, including as many people as possible.

2009 April 27, Micha Berger, “Avigdor Lieberman, our realistic new Foreign Minister (Naomi Ragen)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) A highly generous or righteous person.


mega-synagogue

He wanted His prophet to think bigger than reaching one or two, bigger than a Torah study group, bigger even than a mega-synagogue.

1996, Daniel Lupton, I Like Church, But…, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:

On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, there is a mega-synagogue called B’nai Jeshurun, known as “BJ” to its members.

2021, Amanda Ripley, chapter 7, in High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, New York: Sim & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 237:

(Judaism, rare) An unusually large synagogue.


hiloni

Borrowed from Hebrew חילוני (“secular”).


nivul peh

In the course of my lifetime, I have engaged in many sorties in milchamtah shel Tora. In some, I have conceded error; in some, those with whom I disagreed conceded error; in yet others, we agreed to remain in disagreement. However, in none of them did the conversation ever degenerate to the level of personal insult or invective, and certainly not to the nadir of nibul pe. Rather, we each made the effort to understand the other's point of view respectfully, and responded to each other's thoughts and the words by which they were expressed, not to what we perceived to be the other's motives.

2008 November 11, meir b., “Annulment of Vows - How Recent?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


leitzanus

Borrowed from Hebrew ליצנות (“clownery”).

The uncorrected child who scorns, mocks and laughs at others is subconsciously being educated to become a perpetrator of leitzanus.

2002, Moshe Young, Apples from the Tree: Transmitting Torah Values to Our Children:

Your problem is that you did _not_ ask a question on limudei kodesh, you made bad jokes and leitzanut. Don't be surprised if your answered in kind.

2006 July 3, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “SCJM Contest Shel Shavua: "OK, Rock, Gay Pishen!"”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) ridicule, disrespectful mockery.


Israel-firster

From Israel + firster, influenced by and compared to America First (“American isolationist ideology”).

The ZPC never lost a beat: Israel Firster and Zion-Con fanatic, US Treasury Under Secretary responsible for terrorism and financial intelligence, Stuart Levey, succeeded in convincing China to tighten trade credit ...

2010, James Petras, Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, page 78:

Former Israel-firster Andrew Sullivan chalked up the likes of Krauthammer as "victims of Israel Derangement Syndrome."

2011, Norman G. Finkelstein, "This Time We Went Too Far" - Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion, page 177:

The increasing proximity to the president of this quintessential "Israel firster" most likely played a role in reigning in Obama's initiative to completely freeze Israeli settlements.

2013, Josh Ruebner, Shattered Hopes - Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace, page 75:

routinely used the white supremacist anti-Semitic slur "Israel Firster" to describe any Jew who was hawkish on Israel.

2014, Ben Shapiro, Bullies - How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans, page 247:

Don't pull U.S. into this. You Israel firster should fight your own fights.

One critic argued, "Kirk is a pure Israel-firster ... [H]e brings home the bacon for Israel big time.

2018, Colton C. Campbell, David A. Dulio, James A. Thurber (editors), Congress and Diaspora Politics - The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying, page 236:

It has also earned me the titles "Ziofascist", "Jewish Nazi", "Tool of the Likud", and "Israel Firster".

2019, Alan Dershowitz, Taking the Stand - My Life in the Law, page 478:

On the other, to fail to show sympathy for Palestinians was to out yourself as a heartless tribalist, an Israel-firster.

2022, Richard Landes, Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? - Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, page 478:

(informal, somewhat derogatory, politics) A person who places the interests and welfare of the State of Israel above those of the nation in which they reside.


neo-Ebionite

From the perspective of the sixteenth century, this neo-Ebionite halfway house between Pharisaic Judaism and Apostolic Christianity came to represent a viable pathway into Christianity for former Jews [who did not share in the traditions of medieval Catholicism] much as it was also a pathway back to the Old Testament for certain evangelical Restitutionist Christians who wished to eliminate much of medieval Catholic tradition.

1994, Jerome Friedman, edited by Richard H. Popkin, Gordon M. Weiner, Jewish Christians and Christian Jews: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, U.S.A.: Springer Science+Business Media, B.C., →DOI, →ISBN, page 41:

5. the highly reformed neo-Ebionite version where many Judaic practices are still kept.

2012 June 16, Ir. Jim K K Wong, chapter 19, in The Evolution of the God of Illusion, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 142:

Likewise, this research will seek to answer the question of whether we are at this time, 15th century Spain, facing the possibility of the existence oif a new movement of "Neo-Ebionites", which might have been represented and directed by the same converts, and if this is the case and we really are talking about the existence of a neo-Ebionite movement led by these converts, then who are those converts that constitute it and what religious, social, and political purpose do they have in the development of this ideology?

2019 November 27, Fabio Lichtensztein, Fray Hernando de Talavera. Frente al fenomeno ebionita a judeo cristiano en la España del siglo XV, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 5:

(Christianity, rare) Similar to what the Ebionites believed.


neo-Ebionite

His views were Monarchian, and are identified by Schleiermacher with those of the Patripassians, and by Bauer with those of Artemon and the neo-Ebionites.

1911, Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, London: John Murray, page 132:

(Christianity, rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.


neo-Ebionism

This third group, that which was led from Creationalism to neo-Ebionism, is represented by Arius and his followers.

1956, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation, volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, page 593:

Somewhat later a form of neo-Ebionism evolved which understood the notion of the incarnation of the Logos in the person of Jesus in much the manner that the Divine Presence may be said to rest upon any righteous and exemplary man.

1992, J. David Belich, edited by Lenn E. Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 247:

Augustine seemed to be making room for a kind of neo-Ebionism on the part of Jewish converts, for there can be no such thing as a qualified submission to the law’s observances.

2002, Peter J. Gorday, “six”, in Daniel Patte, Eugene TeSelle, editors, Engaging Augustine on Romans: Self, Context, and Theology in Interpretation, Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, →ISBN, page 215:

(Christianity, rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian denomination whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.


Suchus

From Latin Sūchus, from Ancient Greek Σοῦχος (Soûkhos), ultimately from Egyptian s-b-k:I3 (sbk). Doublet of Sobek.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">sbk</i>

(Egyptian mythology) Synonym of Sobek (“An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.”)


tachrich

(Judaism) A traditional simple white burial furnishings, usually made from 100% pure linen, in which the bodies of deceased Jews are dressed for interment after undergoing a taharah (ritual purification).


Shurasena

Borrowed from Sanskrit शूरसेन (śūrasena).

bor+

(Hinduism) Shurasena, King of Mathura, and the father of Samudravijaya, Vasudeva and Kunti


issur

The C movement has eliminated: mamzerut, the issur of kohen and grusha, permitted eydut of woman, permitted driving on shabbat and half a hundred other issurim.

2003 July 20, bac...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Re; For Julie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) A prohibition; something forbidden.


chiyuv

When you're engaged, you have a chiyuv to set up your friends too. You might not have anybody in mind for your friends before you're engaged, but once you are, you obtain a special power that makes it possible to sense a good shidduch when you see one.

2002 May 15, Harry Weiss, “60 ways to be a frummie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

When it comes to a person's freedom of action in Judaism, there are only chiyuvim and issurim, and everything else is up to the individual.

2005 March 24, Lisa, “Force feeding geese for pate”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

When I was a chiyuv (saying kaddish for my father, a'h, and thus leading prayers almost every day), I asked my LOR whether I should continue my practice, or adopt the more standard version. He told me that my version was an acceptable variant within the shul's own accepted nusach.

2000 November 3, Eliot Shimoff, “Liturgical issues -- in the spirit of Conservative Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) A mourner who is obligated to say Kaddish.


Symeon

Borrowed from Latin Symeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sumeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, “hearkening, listening”), originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob. Doublet of Simon.

der

(biblical) Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Symeon.


archdivinity

One myth asserts that it was first used in designating the archdivinity of Yorubaland.

2004, Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, page 833:

(theology, rare, religion, fantasy, science fiction) A chief or reigning divinity, particularly in a polytheistic system.


Buto

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουτώ (Boutṓ), from Egyptian wAD-t-I12 (wꜣḏt (literally “green one”)), an allusion to the skin of the cobra. Doublet of Wadjet.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">wꜣḏt</i> (literally “green one”)


hashgacha pratis

(Judaism) Divine providence, especially in personal matters.


hashgacha

Borrowed from Hebrew השגחה (“supervision”).

bor+

Having been on the lookout for some specialty flours of late, I was told by a friend that all of King Arthur's commercial-grade flours are under hashgachah. However, only a few -- the ones commonly sold in stores -- seem to have any indications of a hechsher on their packaging, or in the catalogue.

2003 May 19, Lawrence Szenes-Strauss, “King Arthur Flour”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Rabbinic supervision of the process of the making of foodstuffs to certify it as kosher.


drash

en-verb

drash (third-person singular simple present drashes, present participle drashing, simple past and past participle drashed)

drashes (present singular third-person)
drashing (participle present)
drashed (participle past)
drashed (past)

This is a parsha that begs to be split. Like the split letter "vav" in a kosher sefer Torah in the word "shalom". Old Spearchucker gets his reward. There's a census of our ancestors. The laws of inheritance. The mo'adim, fixed holidays. Rather than reveal my level of incompetence by drashing in detail on the above, I'm going to do something easy, yet informative and entertaining. Look up words in the dictionary.

2007 July 5, in...@rambam.biz, “Parshat Pinchas: The Name Game”, in soc.culture.judaism.moderated (Usenet):

2010 July, Janice W. Fernheimer, “Talmidae Rhetoricae: Drashing Up Models and Methods for Jewish Rhetorical Studies”, in College English, volume 72, number 6:


apostolic exhortation

en-noun

apostolic exhortation (plural apostolic exhortations)

(Roman Catholicism) A magisterial document written by the pope.


apostolic letter

apostolic letter (plural apostolic letters)

(Christianity) One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.

(Roman Catholicism) An ecclesiastical letter issued by the pope.


apostolic constitution

apostolic constitution (plural apostolic constitutions)

(Roman Catholicism) The most solemn form of legislation issued by the pope.


third order

(Christianity) Lay members of Christian religious orders, who do not necessarily live in a religious community such as a monastery or a nunnery, and yet can claim to wear the religious habit and participate in the good works of a great order.


polytherian

From poly- (“many”) + therian (“clipping of therianthrope”).

prefix

(otherkin fandom slang) A therianthrope with multiple theriotypes.


revival meeting

en-noun

revival meeting (plural revival meetings)

(Christianity) A series of Christian religious services held to inspire active members of a church body to gain new converts and to call sinners to repent.


vintage shout

vintage shout (usually uncountable, plural vintage shouts)

Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in the source of their luxury, should be wailing, the forerunner of sorrow to come.

1860, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets - With a Commentary, Explanatory and Practical, and Introductions to the Several Books · Volume 3, page 197:

and "The vintage shout," words long since set to express the simple music that accompanies life and labor in the field, are typical of its quiet, peaceful, cheerful, and innocent character.

1862, California State Board of Agriculture, Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society, page 216:

literally, a vintage shout, derived from a root meaning to tramp, and alluding to the cry with which the treaders of the grapes used to animate their toil.

1903, Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick, Frederic Henry Chase, John James Stewart Perowne, Reginald St. John Parry (contributors), The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Book of the prophet Jeremiah, together with the Lamentations, page 177:

so that where the vintage shout is not heard one assumes the occasion to be one of solitude and sorrow.

1925, Charles William Budden, Edward Hastings, 1 Kings - Malachi, page 30:

(biblical, dated, literary) A type of work song sung by grape-treaders.


believing is seeing

(idiomatic, religion) Faith often precedes any miracle.


Zion Don

From Zion + Don or blend of Zionist + Donald, in the context of his pro-Israel stance. Also chosen for its quasi-rhyme.

They realized that they have overused their Zion Don to the point where one more of these attacks and his base is going to abandon him entirely.

2019 April 1, D. Schlenk, “Mossad/CIA False Flag Warning”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet):

Good, that’s where Zion Don belongs. I doubt, however, that Democrats have balls to do that. Also, the fact that they call prison a “niggerville” really says a lot about niggers.

2023 November 19, D. Ray, “Re: 8 NIGGERS ARRESTED IN VEGAS TEEN'S FATAL BEATING”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet):

Trump supporters have also moved to the right of Trump himself: hence, accusations of Trump running a MIGA campaign (Make Israel Great Again) or even himself being a Zion Don can be found on Reddit and 4chan (Luddy 2021).

2024, Elizaveta Gaufman, Bharath Ganesh, The Trump Carnival - Populism, Transgression and the Far Right, page 59:

(US politics, derogatory, uncommon) Donald Trump.


Kashyapa

(Hinduism)Kashyapa, who is considered to be the author of some of the hymns of the Rigveda; one of the seven Saptarishis; the father of the Adityas


the Three Weeks

(Judaism) A period from the seventeenth of Tammuz to the Tisha B'Av


Purim spiel

Borrowed from Yiddish פּורימשפּיל (purimshpil).

bor+

A usually comic theatrical reenactment of the book of Esther.


ardhamandapa

(Hinduism) A half-open entrance porch on a Hindu temple.


Luth.

Coordinate term: Ref.

(Christianity) Abbreviation of Lutheran.


Daozang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道藏 (dàozàng, literally “Repository of the Way”).

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Similar Daozang 道藏 (Repositories of the Tao) had been compiled by earlier Chinese dynasties, always under the authority of the Son of Heaven himself.[…]Today, only the above-mentioned Ming Daozang has survived.[…]The Ming Daozang remains the last.[…]Although the philosophical texts of Laozi 老子, Zhuangzi 莊子, and others, together with their numerous commentaries, figure prominently in the Daozang, they do not amount to more than some 200 titles.

2005 August 1, Franciscus Verellen, Kristofer Schipper, The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 1—2:

While I have indicated the ways in which different Daoist scriptures were emphasized in different Daoist movements, no discussion of Daoist texts would be complete without the Daozang (Tao-tsang, Daoist Canon), the primary textual collection of the Daoist tradition from the late medieval period forward.[…]Such collections received the designation of Daozang, which literally means “storehouse of the Dao” (see Komjathy 2002; Schipper and Verellen 2004).[…]The received, Ming-dynasty Daozang in total consists of 1,487 texts (see Schipper and Verellen 2004; also Komjathy 2002).

2012 June 20, Louis Komjathy, The Daoist Tradition: An Introduction, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 237:

The vast literature of the Daoist canon, or Daozang, survives in a Ming Dynasty edition of some 1,500 different texts. Compiled under imperial auspices and completed in 1445 – with a supplement added in 1607 – many of the books in the Daozang concern the history, organization, and liturgies of China's indigenous religion. A large number of the works deal with medicine, alchemy, and divination.

2012 November 2, ASU News, “Rare Daoist canon comes to ASU Libraries”, in ASU News, archived from the original on 2024-08-17:

(Taoism) An extensive canon of Taoist writings, consisting of around 1,500 texts covering various topics.


Sun Wukong

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 孫悟空／孙悟空 (Sūn Wùkōng, literally “Sun Awakened-to-Emptiness”).

(Chinese mythology) A fictional anthropomorphic monkey with various abilities and magical powers best known for being one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese epic Journey to the West, and is revered as a deity by some Buddhists and most Taoists.


Triadology

en-noun

Triadology (countable and uncountable, plural Triadologies)

From Greek Τριάδα (Triáda, “Trinity”) + -logy.

(Christianity, theology, triunitarianism) the discipline concerned with the Holy triunity.


evo-creo

(slang) Clipping of evolution-creationism.


glory-land

My pockets all are empty, I've got nothing more to lose
Take me home to glory-land and take away my blues

(Can we date this quote?), “Say Goodbye”:


kar seva

(Hinduism, Sikhism) Voluntary labor for the benefit of a religious cause.


Prayers of the People

(Christianity) A liturgical structure for public prayer in worship, moving in a well-defined sequence and covering specific content.


Scotch Baptist

(Christianity) A member of a Baptist denomination consisting mainly of immigrants from Scotland to northern England.


Snegurochka

the Snow Maiden, a character in Russian folklore who assists her grandfather Ded Moroz in bringing gifts to children every New Year.


Wakan Tanka

bor

Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka

The Great Spirit in Lakota religious and spiritual belief.


HIAS

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
w:Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Acronym of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish American organization that provides aid to refugees. Founded under the name but now known officially as HIAS.


religious police

en-noun

religious police (plural religious police)

(Islam) A police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws.


Sharia patrol

(Islam) An unsanctioned and unauthorized group of people who enforce Islamic law, by patrolling the streets and requiring Islamic behavior from its residents.


shruti

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-
Sanskrit श्रु (śru)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Sanskrit -ति (-ti)
Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti)translit.
English shrutiTransliteration of Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti).

etymon

(religion) Any of the ancient religious texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism.


hedge riding

From hedge (“boundary”) + riding (“traversing, crossing”), where the boundary is that separating this world from the spirit world.

compound

Hedge riding is shamanic in nature and is usually solitary as the hedge witch is solitary, but there is no reason why you cannot practice with others.

2012, Harmonia Saille, Pagan Portals - Hedge Witchcraft, John Hunt Publishing, page 10:

Hedge riding may be part of the spell a hedge witch puts together.

2014, Trevor Greenfield, Witchcraft Today - 60 Years On, John Hunt Publishing, unnumbered page:

The hedge is the symbolic boundary between the worlds. Hedge riding is the journey your spirit takes into the Otherworld or Underworld realms, sometimes called the upper and lower realms. The middle realm being our everyday world that we live in.
Hedge riding can take our spirit travelling back into the past to connect with our ancestors and we can meet and talk with our past-life selves.

2018, Rachel Patterson, Witchcraft...Into the Wilds, John Hunt Publishing, unnumbered page:

Shamanic journeying, as practised by a hedge witch.


Germanistan

[see title]

2015 October 12, Byker, “Germanistan: Refugees to good to move into gymnasium”, in uk.religion.islam (Usenet):

According to the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, at least 80% of the 1.3 million newcomers in Germany in 2015 and 2016 are Islamic. Germany is becoming Germanistan. Holland is becoming Hollandistan. Europe is becoming Eurabia.

2017, Pamela Geller, “Forward”, in Fatwa: Hunted in America, Miami, Fla.: Dangerous Books, →ISBN, page xii:

You see a lot of work has to be done, to educate people and to bring Germany back on track, otherwise, we will soon have a Germanistan, ruled by the green party and run by illegal aliens, while the still remaining hard working-class finances them with their tax euros.

2021 October 27, Stefan Claas, “Re: Petition to the ICC signing request”, in alt.privacy.anon-server (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Germany, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.


hedge rider

1883, Translation of Havamal, in Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (editors, translators), Corpvs Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, Volume 1: Eddic Poetry, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 27,
18. The tenth I know: If I see witches [hedge-riders] dancing in the air, I prevail so that they go astray and cannot find their own skins and their own haunts.

Witches, who were usually homeless and gaunt and sometimes crippled, were said to be hedge-riders; they roamed the darkened roads by the edge of town and were reputed to live in two realities by straddling the hedges between the civilized safety of a small village and the real and imagined dangers from ghosts and demons who dwelled beyond.

2007, Doug Lennox, Now You Know Big Book of Answers, Dundurn Press, page 118:

Verses 147–165 of the Havamal are charms. Depending on which translation you follow, reciting the charm can cause either the hedge rider to show their true self and return home, or the rider's spirit to become separated from their physical body.[…]The hedge rider of ancient times flew to the otherworld to consult with spirits and gods for the purposes of magic or prophecy. The hedge rider of modern times will certainly do this among other things.

2012, Harmonia Saille, Pagan Portals: Hedge Riding, page 4:

A witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch.


hedge witch

* (type of witch): Circa 1990s. From hedge (“boundary”) + witch, where the boundary is that separating this world from the spirit world, which is traversed during hedge riding. Possibly coined or popularised by Rae Beth (1990) Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN.
* (fantasy): Circa 1980s. From hedge (“third-rate”) + witch. Compare hedge priest, hedge wizard.

One hedge witch who is also a practising iridologist and herbalist in a large country town, feels that we should regard all of nature as having a purpose, and continually strive to understand that purpose.

1997, Lynne Hume, Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia, Melbourne University Press, page 45:

While Hedge Witches may work with other Witches in a coven, their work as a Hedge Witch is performed typically on their own or with one other person.

2005, Douglas Ezzy, Practising the Witch's Craft, page 14:

The path of the hearth-based hedge witch is rooted in the parallel paths of nurturing and nourishing.

2009, Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The Way of the Hedge Witch, Simon & Schuster, page 16:

(paganism) A modern, solitary witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience (hedge riding).


Hollandistan

From Holland (“the Netherlands”) + -i- + -stan.

af

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The Netherlands, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.


quadrobist

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


Judeo-Banderite

Since that time the T-shirt "Judeo-Banderite" has been worn by many Ukrainian Jews in defiance of Putin's propaganda.

2017, Olga Bertelsen (editor), Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine, The Challenge of Change:

In this phrase, which could also be translated as "Judeo-Banderite," the semantics are transformed from pejorative to affirmative.

2018, Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night, An Intimate History of Revolution, page 272:

These terms were not, however, rejected but rather appropriated in a humorous way - with the famous public appearance of a Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky on a T-shirt with the sign "Zhydo-banderovets" (Judeo-Banderite) and the Ukrainian coat of arms (a trident) styled as menorah.

2021, Mykola Riabchuk, At the Fence of Metternich's Garden, page 179:

The neologism zhydobanderivtsi (Judeo-Banderites) became popular as an ironic representation of the unity of ethnic Jews and nationalists in the struggle against Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

2022, Georgiy Kasianov, Memory Crash, Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s, page 256:

(politics, derogatory, rare) A Ukrainian nationalist of Jewish descent.

жидобандеровец

a Ukrainian nationalist of Jewish descent


aseitous

(metaphysics, theology) Possessing the divine attribute of aseity.


shankha

Transliteration of Sanskrit शङ्ख (śaṅkha).

etymon

(Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) The conch-shell, considered sacred and of ritual importance.


rajju

(Jainism) Synonym of rope (“a unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second”)


Balmikism

(Hinduism) The beliefs of a Hindu sect who revere the sage Srishtikarta (also called Bala Shah or Lal Beg) as their ancestor and patron saint.


Foxian

All this by his former woords, my Caualiero is bound to beleeue: for these are Foxian Martyrs, with whom he sayth, he is consenting in ynitie and veritie of Doctrin.

1608, Henry Fitzsimon, A Catholike Confvtation of M. Iohn Riders Clayme of Antiquitie, page 308:

You bid mee take the chiefe Apostles and thir successors with all the old Confessors, and compare them with the Foxian Confessors.

1635, George Hakewill, An Apologie Or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World., page 174:

In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.

2008, Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, page 170:

Pertaining to the writings of John Foxe.


non-Christian

/ˌnɒnˈkɹɪst͡ʃən/

/ˌnɑːnˈkɹɪst͡ʃən/


Kumbhakarna

Borrowed from Sanskrit कुम्भकर्ण (kumbhakarṇa).

bor+

(Hinduism) Kumbhakarna younger brother of Ravana


Christmas in July

A second Christmas celebration sometimes held on July 25th, centered on secular activities and entertainment such as social gatherings, seasonal entertainment, and shopping.


xrafstar

There are three kinds of xrafstars corresponding to three categories of animals: those that live in water, those that live on earth, and those that live in the air.

GBd 22 gives details of certain xrafstars, such as the silkworm and the honeybee, which 'Ohrmazd through omniscience diverts to the benefit of creatures' (my translation), just as he also makes the noxious creatures attack and kill their own species (GBd 22.29).

2015, Michael Stausberg, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism (page 352)

(Zoroastrianism) Any animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.


substitutionary atonement

en-noun

substitutionary atonement (usually uncountable, plural substitutionary atonements)

(Christianity, theology) A central concept which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, and which regards Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.


myrrhbearing

(Eastern Orthodoxy) In relation to the burial of Jesus, bearing myrrh.


myrrh-bearing

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Alternative form of myrrhbearing


vicar general

(Catholicism) Priest appointed by the bishop to assist in governing the diocese.


superior general

superior general (plural superior generals or superiors general)

superior generals (plural)
superiors general (plural)

(Catholicism) The highest leader of a Roman Catholic religious institute.


supreme moderator

supreme moderator (plural supreme moderators)

superior general
superior general#English

(Catholicism) In canon law, Alternative form of superior general


chatra

From Sanskrit छत्र (chatra), variant of छत्त्र (chattra, “umbrella, parasol, chatra”). Doublet of chador and chatta.

The so-called Chatra coins of the Guptas seem in all probability, to have been the issue of Chandragupta I to begin with... This variety apart from the noticeable distinction in the figure of the monarch and the umbrella bearer contains the obverse legend Chandragupta merely, with the reverse legend Vikramaditya.

1926, S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, “Studies in Gupta History”, in Journal of Indian History: University Supplement, page 9:

CHATRA (UMBRELLA)
In the Gupta period, Brahmins used a Chatra.

1982, Anantray Jatashanker Rawal, Indian Society, Religion, and Mythology..., p. 98: #*:

Chatra (I)—the seven worlds, white in colour, are one above the other umbrella-like...
 Chatra (II)—the white umbrella as insignia of royalty given to Kāmaśvara by Viṣṇu...

2003, V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, The Puraṇa Index, volume I, page 617:

(India) Synonym of umbrella or parasol, particularly ritual or ceremonial forms.


qibla compass

(Islam) A compass used to determine the direction of qibla.


But two men who said they spoke with some of those who broke through the synagogue wall said the motive was to hasten an expansion of 770 — a move that they say the Lubavitcher movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the rebbe, called for more than three decades ago.

2024 September 1, Eliza Shapiro and Katherine Rosman, “Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests”, in The New York Times:

770 Eastern Parkway, the world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.


AROPL

Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
w:Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

(religion) Initialism of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.


gimong

“We must all take care of our faith for this will lead us to eternity,” Bendico said in a homily during a welcome mass held May 29 at the gymnasium of the Saint Louis High School-Philex, in this town’s Sitio Padcal, Brgy. Camp 3. “So let us exercise our faith in our gimong, as this enables us to become agents of communion, participation, and mission.” A gimong is a basic ecclesial community (BEC) or a sub-parish. Sitio Padcal’s Sto. Niño (of Prague) Parish, for instance, has 13 gimongs, while Kabayan, another Benguet town, has 22.

2017 June 4, PR, “In Philex, Bishop Bendico tells youth to care for environment”, in Amianan Balita Ngayon:

4 Tribes, 12 Gimongs, 68 young people, 3 days in 1 City. This is how we described the summer Youth Camp held in St. Joseph Parish in Dagupan City of Tabuk Kalinga. In line with the 2017 Pastoral Theme “Communion of Communities”, the Bukal ng Tipan Youth Unit facilitated an experience of Community with the different tribes among young people who desire to become one with Christ and with one another. Amidst the conflicts in their place, these young people proved that communion is possible in their tribes. Before the camp ended, the youth community chose their Gimong (chapel) representatives who will comprise their Parish Youth Council.

2017 June 21, “Youth Summer Engagement 2017”, in Bukal ng Tipan:

The gimong of Taba-ao celebrated today the 50th feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the titular of the community chapel. The gimong was instrumental in the building up of other gimongs at least 5 of them. It started with the solemn celebration of the Mass, Fr. Rolly Buyagan, diocesan administrator as presider and homilist with Fr. Raymond Songyap, the pastor of San Isidro Parish of Abatan, then a sumptouos feast lunch was served followed by a program, interrupted by the native dances. Interesting element was the presentation of the history of the birth and formation of the gimong and the 50 years of journey of faith.

2024 June 10, Diocese of Baguio-CURIA, Facebook:

(Catholicism, Philippines, chiefly Cordillera) A chapel that is under the jurisdiction of a parish, typically in rural areas.


White Thursday

(Christianity) Synonym of Maundy Thursday


Five Points

(theology) A summary of soteriology in Reformed Christianity


green apron

(Christianity, obsolete, somewhat derogatory) A lay preacher.


Kali Puja

Kali + Puja, based on Sanskrit काली (kālī) and Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā). Literally means "reverence of Kali".

(Hinduism) A festival celebrating the goddess Kali, held at around October and November.

Deepavali

other Hindu festivals celebrated at the same time


maitrī

(Buddhism) Benevolence, lovingkindness or compassion, especially if developed through meditation or mindfulness.


compostela

From Spanish Compostela, from Galician Compostela, from Latin compositella (“the little well-organized one”), from composita (“put together, arranged”) + -ella (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from compōnere (“to put together”), from con- (“with, together”) + pōnere (“to put, to place”), q.v.

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Pilgrims arriving in Santiago de Compostela who have walked at least the last 100 km (62 mi), or cycled 200 km (120 mi) to get there (as indicated on their credencial), and who state that their motivation was at least partially religious, are eligible for the compostela from the Pilgrim's Office in Santiago.

2024 October 21, Wikipedia contributors, “Camino de Santiago”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

A certificate of accomplishment given to pilgrims on completing an official route on the pilgramage to Camino de Santiago.


diasporism

What do I mean by home? Not the nation state; not religious worship; not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred. I mean a commitment to what is and is not mine; to the strangeness of others, to my strangeness to others; to common threads twisted with surprise. Diasporism takes root in the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund’s principle of doikayt — hereness — the right to be, and to fight for justice, wherever we are...Doikayt is about wanting to be citizens, to have rights, to not worry about being shipped off at any moment where someone else thinks you do or don’t belong…I name this commitment Diasporism.

2007 06, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, →ISBN:


Jewish hereness

Semantic loan from Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt): דאָיִק (doik) (“here” or “local”) + ־קייט (-keyt) (“-ness”).

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Hereness isn’t just about place, but about people: centering our politics and spiritual project around those nearest to us, adopting neighborliness as political practice and intergenerationality as a matter of course. Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own. Hereness means we refuse to disappear into the interiority of our liturgy, and equally refuse to stop being Jews in public. Hereness forces us to consider critically our relationship with class and its ordering of our world. Hereness is weird and materialist and queer and fun and angry, and best of all it’s already happening.

2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents:


priesthood of all believers

en-noun

priesthood of all believers (plural priesthoods of all believers)

(Christianity) The common priesthood composed of all Christians, according to general Christian belief, and thought by Protestants to preclude the ministerial priesthood (holy orders) found in some other churches.


oracle card

(spiritualism) A type of card used for spiritual insight, personal exploration, and ritual.


dice oracle

(spiritualism) A type of dice that uses the magical correspondences of the elements to produce pairings.


alphabet oracle

alphabet oracle (plural alphabet oracles)

(spiritualism) A form of divination using individual letters of an alphabet, usually the Greek alphabet.


hatafat dam brit

hatafat dam brit (plural hatafat dam brits)

From Hebrew הַטָּפַת דַּם בְּרִית.

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הַטָּפַת דַּם בְּרִית

Hebrew הַטָּפַת דַּם בְּרִית

(Jewish law) An alternative to brit milah preformed for those who are born without foreskin or who convert after previously having been circumcised for an unrelated purpose, in which a droplet of blood is extracted from the penis using a knife or needle.


Ambalavasi

Borrowed from Malayalam അമ്പലവാസി (ampalavāsi).

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A group of castes among Hindus in Kerala, India.


nonlegalism

In contrast, Bawer continues that progressive or liberal theology or nonlegalism puts love at its center, with spiritual experience, priesthood of all believers, and the Great Commandment.

2019, Patricia Ambrose Welker, Seeking to Become Whole:

(religion, theology) An approach to religion that stresses faith and love over specific religious strictures.


antilegalism

In this coinage of the great apostle extremes meet; legalism and antilegalism; legalism in so far as it implies that God, as the Judaists contended demanded righteousness from all, antilegalism in so fare as it implies that the righteousness which God demands he at the same time bestows.

1896, William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, The Biblical World - Volume 7, page 10:

(religion, theology) A belief that salvation is attained or maintained not just by adherence to the requirements of moral law, but also by worship, faith, or grace.


pyrotheology

(theology) An interpretation that views faith as a particular way of engaging with the world rather than a set of beliefs about the world.


imago Dei

The fact that divine mercy and power have indeed been successfully carried in the image of Mary reveals the capacity of women to represent God. Not just Mary’s face but the face of every woman is created as an imago Dei.

2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:


natla

(Judaism) A cup used for ritual handwashing.


First Month

(Quakerism) January, the first month of the year.


propheticide

Possibly prophet + -icide but cf. Latin propheticida.

(religion, uncommon) The slaying of a prophet.


Xwedodah

consanguine marriage
consanguine marriage

(Zoroastrianism, historical) A type of consanguine marriage practiced before the Muslim conquest of Persia.


Kabballah bracelet

en-noun

Kabballah bracelet (plural Kabballah bracelets)

(Judaism) A type of talisman made from a thin scarlet or crimson wool thread, traditionally worn on the left wrist.


Armenian Catholic

Armenian Catholic (plural Armenian Catholics)

A member of the Armenian Catholic Church.