Bible pounder

(derogatory) Synonym of Bible basher (“fervent Christian”).


Days of Awe

(Judaism) The period of the year surrounding Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur


Ten Days of Repentance

(Judaism) The ten-day period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

bekeringsdagen

the period between Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur


Ereshkigal

Ultimately from Sumerian 𒀭𒎏𒆠𒃲 (ᵈereš-ki-gal /Ereškigalak/).

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1911, Morris Jastrow, Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 369,
A myth^‡ describes how Nergal invaded the domain of Ereshkigal, and forced her to yield her dominion to him. The gods are depicted as holding a feast to which all come except Ereshkigal.

1988, Samuel A. Meier, The Messenger in the Ancient Semitic World, Scholars' Press, page 159,
There still remains the problem of why the messenger from heaven bows while the messenger from below receives homage. In light of the suggestion earlier that Ereshkigal is depicted in a much more favorable light than the heavenly trinity of ruling gods, the issue of bowing messengers reaffirms this impression.

1996, Tanya Wilkinson, Persephone Returns: Victims, Heroes and the Journey from the Underworld, PageMill Press, page 237,
The dark sister is Ereshkigal, a Goddess with clear qualities and strong emotions. The myth describes in detail how Inanna surrenders to an excruciating, dismembering initiation into the Underworld.

(Mesopotamian mythology) The goddess of the underworld.


Shantanu

Transliteration of Hindi शांतनु (śāntnu) or Sanskrit शांतनु (śāṃtanu).

translit

(Hinduism) The name of a king in the Mahabharata.


Covidtide

From COVID + -tide (“time”), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide.

In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10, and ate a whole pizza, and that isn't all. Covidtide is exposing the paucity of the american dream much more efficiently than lent

2020 March 22, @subtle_mullet, “In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10 […]”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-03-23:

Like so many other congregations, St. Aidan is adapting its life together to realities created by this extended season of “Covidtide.”

2020 November, Dean Pinter, “Prayer and Scripture Are the Daily Bread in Moose Jaw”, in The Saskatchewan Anglican, Regina, Saskatchewan: Diocese of Saskatchewan / Diocese of Saskatoon / Diocese of Qu’Appelle, retrieved 2022-02-07, page 4:

Advent during "Covidtide," as some have termed the pandemic, allows families to enter a type of "family cocoon" or period of dormancy, said Anne Nicklaus, 57, whose family belongs to Our Lady of Peace Parish in Minneapolis.

2020 December 2, Maria Wiering, “Catholics Say They’re Able to Deepen Their Approach to Advent Season This Year”, in Angelus (Catholic News Service), Los Angeles, retrieved 2020-02-07:

Even in lockdown, even in Covidtide, our house has continued to brim over with life.

2021, Brad East, The Doctrine of Scripture, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page xvi:

COVID-19 might have further ruptured Christian unity as we debated mandatory vaccines and masking, but there’s one thing we can all agree on based on our experiences over Covidtide: Video calls are a bad substitute for human presence.

2021 December, Ted Olsen, “Screening Visitors”, in Christianity Today, volume 65, number 9, →ISSN, page 22:

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


purposivism

(philosophy, religion) philosophy, especially religious, that treats will or conscious intent as a basal fact


Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

en-noun

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (plural Feasts of the Holy Name of Jesus)

Feasts of the Holy Name of Jesus (plural)

(Christianity) A feast of the liturgical year celebrated by a number of Christian denominations.

Zoete Naam Jezus

a celebration of the circumcision of Jesus


Catholicly

en-adv

Catholicly (comparative more Catholicly, superlative most Catholicly)

more Catholicly (comparative)
most Catholicly (superlative)

[…] visited the Archbishop, and after protesting how glas he was to see him there, whom he knew to be Catholicly bent, showed him that his intention in repairing to that country was to deal with the King of Spain about reducing Ireland to his government, whereby heresy might be expelled, and true Catholic religion planted.

1878, Richard Simpson, “Biography of Sir Thomas Stucley”, in The School of Shakspere, volume 1, New York: J. W. Bouton, page 87:

In a Catholic manner, in terms of Catholicism; Catholically.


stonesetting

en-noun

stonesetting (countable and uncountable, plural stonesettings)

(Judaism) The ceremony of erecting or unveiling a person's tombstone.


black Christmas

black Christmas (plural black Christmases)

D. A black Christmas makes a fat churchyard. D. This is, in effect, the same as A green winter makes, &c., as a 'black Christmas is of course a Christmas without snow.

1882, William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: Collected from the Most Authentic Sources, Alphabetically Arranged, and Annotated, page 3:

We didn't have any snow up here, that stayed until this year (1918) thus giving us a black Christmas, as they say, but the spirit was anything but black. Colored and white packages prevailed.

1917, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 287:

We supposed that we were going to have a black Christmas, but we had snow and cold weather. The week before a storm had swept across the country to the northeastward, which just missed Albany and Boston, but […]

1928, John Van Schaick, Nature Cruisings to the Old Home Town and the Little Hill Farm:

“It was a black Christmas last year. It takes a white Christmas for a good crop year .” (Jesse Stuart, Beyond Dark Hills, 1938) (Snow adds nitrogen to the soil and is widely called “poor man's manure” because it fertilizes the soil, producing better crops.)

2000, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 345:

... the danger to her of travelling at that particular time of the year, the weather and the holiday crowds combined, Dorothy had written. Mrs. Fairlands turned sadly from the fireplace and walked slowly to the window. A black Christmas this year, the wireless report had [forecast].

2017, Martin Edwards, Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is not any snowfall or ground covering of snow.


Mother of Mercy

Calque of Latin Mater Misericordiae and its descendants in other languages, viewing Mary as a sympathetic intermediary between Christians and the Godhead.

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly in Catholic contexts.

Mater Misericordiae

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Mother of God, Virgin Mary


druj

(Zoroastrianism) Deceit, falsehood, lie.


religiocultural

en-adj

religiocultural (comparative more religiocultural, superlative most religiocultural)

more religiocultural (comparative)
most religiocultural (superlative)


morning prayer

(religion) The first of the two services of the Anglican Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of matins, lauds and prime.


holiness movement

(Christianity) A Wesleyan-Arminian set of Christian beliefs and practices that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism and emphasize the doctrine of a second work of grace leading to Christian perfection.


Jabal

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Hebrew יוּבָל (yå̄ḇå̄l)

(biblical, Torah) The son of Lamech and Ada.


Naamah

(biblical) A descendant of Cain, daughter of Lamech and Zillah.


Tubal-cain

From Hebrew תּוּבַל קַיִן (tūḇal qayin).

uder

תּוּבַל קַיִן

(biblical, Torah) A descendant of Cain. The son of Lamech and Zillah.


Jubal

(biblical, Torah) A son of Lamech and Ada.


Jericho walk

Ever since we came , we have been aware of student groups who regularly conducted Jericho walks (some call them Joshua walks). They walk around campus and encircle dormitories […]

1995, Timothy Ken Beougher, Accounts of a Campus Revival: Wheaton College, 1995, page 86:

In addition to the fast, God called those men and myself to a Jericho Walk for our city. We began at 8 P.M. one Friday night and walked the 610 Loop around downtown Houston, about a 40-mile walk.

2001, Doug Stringer, Somebody Cares: A Guide to Living Out Your Faith:

(US, Christianity) A form of protest in which people walk seven times around a significant location.


Mrs Claus

But on the day when I approached her regarding Nazli Akram-Hyder, any resemblance to the jolly old Mrs Claus was only superficial.

2006, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, The Colour of Mehndi: A Novel, page 10:

With Mrs Claus (formerly Carol Newman) heavily pregnant, Santa (formerly Scott Calvin) agrees to let Jack Frost help with the Christmas preparations.

2007, Sight & Sound, British Film Institute, page 76, column 2:

KA: No problem Santa. An easy one now – what is your favourite colour? / SC: Red. I used to wear green a lot in the early days, but Mrs Claus says that red is my colour now.

2010, Keith Andrews, “An Interview with the Main Man in the Red Jersey”, in Jonathan Irwin, editor, There’s No Place like Home at Christmas, collected by Shane Lennon, Mercier Press, →ISBN, page 180:

Branson was Branson, Missouri, where you could find the world’s biggest Santa Claus convention with over seven hundred professional Santas, Mrs Clauses and helpers hanging out together for a five-day convention.

2020, William McInnes, Christmas Tales, Hachette, →ISBN:


Mrs Santa Claus

The confrontation of urban and rural lifestyles is the major source of fun in the novel which would be incomplete without due references to the WI where "tradition decreed that one should wear a tweedy A-line skirt with a delicious lemony-coloured twin set" (119), where one can get one's hand "on loads of those hand-knitted gnome families they always make" (118) and where new members are introduced into the mysteries of "how to knit Mrs Santa Claus or the Three Bears in lime green wool remnants" (118).

1996, Jens Ulrich Davids, Richard Stinshoff, editors, The Past in the Present: Proceedings of the 5th Annual British and Cultural Studies Conference, Oldenburg 1994, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 78:

At any rate his mother’s response when she came down, her hair wet and heaped on her head, was not enthusiastic either. ‘Mrs Santa Claus is a white lady. A big fat white lady.’

2009, Evie Wyld, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, London: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 39:

You could ask him: / • about Rudolph and the other reindeers in his team. / • if Rudolph is happier, now that all the other reindeers are his friends. / • about Mrs Santa Claus and wish him all the best until next Christmas. / Use the format given below. /[…] Closing line → Give my regards to Mrs Santa Claus. Hope to hear from you soon.

2019, Abha Sahgal, Sandra de Souza, “English”, “3. Rudolph: Santa’s Favourite Reindeer”, in Foundation: A Semester Series; English, Mathematics, Environmental Studies; 3: Semester 2, V-Connect Education, →ISBN, page E-33:


Mrs. Santa Claus

en-proper noun

Mrs. Santa Claus (plural Mrs. Santa Clauses)

Now, dear Mrs. Santa Claus, stay your tears. I think we can outwit your cunning husband yet. / Mrs. Santa Claus (seizing Fairy’s hand and kissing them).—O you dear, dear Fairy, I shall love you now better than ever.

1889, Clara J. Denton, “Santa Claus Outwitted: A Drama in One Act”, in Charles O. Shoemaker, editor, Holiday Entertainments Containing Short Dramas, Dialogues, Tableaux, Stories, Recitations, Etc. […], Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, “Scene II.—The Same”, page 10:

There was a long table, and around on one side was a big row of Santa Clauses and Mrs. Santa Clauses.

1907, Thornwell Jacobs, Sinful Sadday: Son of a Cotton Mill: A Story of a Little Orphan Boy Who Lived to Triumph, Nashville, Tenn.: Smith & Lamar, page 67:

Mrs. Santa Claus, do you think your husband is going to bring that doll to our house?

1914, Ella H. Clement, “A Christmas Eve Adventure”, in Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, editor, Choice Dialogues: A Collection of New and Original Dialogues for School and Social Entertainment, Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, published 1919, “Scene III”, page 134:

Mrs. Santa Claus brushed a tear from her eye as she placed a generous bag of toys on the floor and prepared to depart.

1914, The Windsor Magazine, volume 39, page 206, column 2:

So the next day several more prominent women came out, all dressed up like Mrs. Santa Claus with white powdered hair and red skirts and pillows in their stomachs and Santa Claus hats, and they weren’t killed either.[…]But this new generation of kids, who grew up believing in Mrs. Santa Claus, seemed to have a different attitude toward women.

1993, Spencer Holst, “The Santa Claus Murderer”, in The Zebra Storyteller: Collected Stories, Station Hill Literary Editions, →ISBN, pages 92, 93:

Later I saw the stout matriarchs of both families walking together, both wearing bright red robes with white trim, like a couple of Mrs. Santa Clauses.

2004, Pat Hartman, Ghost Town: A Venice California Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 102:

Crowd management was improved as female Santa’s helpers and Mrs. Santa Clauses came on the scene to calm children before their visit.

2006, Jan Whitaker, Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:

She brought the unpainted ceramic Santas and Mrs. Santa Clauses, reindeer, elves, and gift packages to us by the box load and spent every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 or sometimes 9:00 showing us how to properly paint the white figures so that they looked “neat” and “professionally done.”

2015, Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, Duke University Press, →ISBN:


Mashallah

From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah).

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مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه

Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah)

At this early stage of the narrative, this manner of describing Mashallah's state of mind foreshadows a more radical loss of self, i.e., a journey that transforms him from an ordinary and insignificant bank guard to a visitor to the court of Harun...

2015, Nasrin Rahimieh, Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 19:

Mashallah, the cook, housekeeper and moral guardian of the family, had a different relationship with each of us. For Achim he felt deep respect, with some distance; he was jealous of Marianne, fearing for his sovereignty in the domestic sphere;...

2006, Irene Gill, Oma, Mu and Me, APS Publishing:

مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه
ما شاء الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah, “God willed it”)


Bismillah

/ˌbɪsmɪˈlɑː/

From Arabic بِاسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”)

بِاسْمِ اللّٰه

‘Bismillah!’ he exclaimed. ‘I call all here to witness that Rashîd, the son of Ali, called the Fair, is free henceforth to go what way he chooses.’

1918, Marmaduke Pickthall, Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., page 25:

Thus recitation of Bismillah creates a sort of firm conviction in the existence of Allah, and also develops the sense of gratitude, in the mind of the servant of Allah, for all that Allah has provided for him.

1984, Syed Anwer Ali, Qurʼan, the Fundamental Law of Human Life: Surat ul-Faateha to Surat-ul-Baqarah (sections 1-21):

On the night before his execution he calls God in Arabic - "Bismillah" - and so regains his soul from Satan.

2011 June 15, “Smashed Hits: What is a Bohemian Rhapsody?”, in BBC:

(Islam) In the name of Allah! Used in belief of blessing the speaker's imminent action, especially prior to eating and drinking; sometimes used as an apotropaic.

In Bismillah, Allah has chosen to mention only two of His attributes, Rahman and Rahim, out of all His numerous attributes and the verse does not mention any other Divine attribute;...

2004, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Commentary on the Holy Quran: Surah Fatiha, Islam International, →ISBN, page 44:

(Islam) The basmala; the phrase Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim (“in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate”).


Bismillah

/ˌbɪsmɪˈlɑː/

بِاسْمِ اللّٰه

It was only at the age of six years when Bismillah was sent to Varanasi to stay with his maternal uncle, Ali Baksh, who himself was a great musician and played shehnai in the premises of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.

2020, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN:

بِاسْمِ اللَّه
باسم الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic بِاسْمِ اللَّه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”)


Mistress Santa Claus

[…]And pretty Mistress Santa Claus, / With sugar sticking to her thumbs / And tiny fingers, laughs aloud / To think of that great eager crowd / Of smiling girls and smiling boys / Awaiting for her husband’s toys. / And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums! / And now, sweethearts, when merry Christmas comes, / And you greet Santa’s gifts with loud applause, / Remember who sent you the sugar-plums, / And give one cheer for Mistress Santa Claus.

1882, Margaret Eytinge, “Mistress Santa Claus”, in Harper’s Young People, volume III, New York: Harper & Brothers, […], page 119, column 1:

1. Of all the bu - sy people round, This bu - sy Christmas - tide, None works like Mis - tress /[…]/ San - ta Claus For days and nights be - side;[…]

1890, Alex. Lee, Ada S. Shelton, “Mistress Santa Claus”, in J. P. McCaskey, editor, Christmas in Song, Sketch, and Story: […], New York: Harper & Brothers, […], page 301:

Just as he started for his sleigh / One eve, in old December, / He turned to Mistress Santa Claus / And said, “Did you remember / About that fine new Paris doll / for wee Dot in the city? / I must not fail to take that gift, / ’Twould be a dreadful pity.”

1897, Mabel L. Pray, “A Christmas Gift”, in Alice Maude Kellogg, editor, Christmas Entertainments […]:

The first scene shows several little girls with their dollies enjoying a tea party, and in the act of singing “Go To Sleep, My Little Dollie,” after which they decide to journey North in search of Mistress Santa Claus.

¶ Uncle Sam has a great sack of mail for Santa Claus. There is trouble getting it to him on account of the cold and distance, but Jack Frost, with the aid of the Fairies, Mistress Santa Claus and others, after a strenuous struggle succeed in reaching Snow-land, to the delight of Santa, and the joy of all.

1911, Christian Advocate, volume 86, page 2, column 2:

Telluride held union Thanksgiving services, Montrose had the traditional Christmas program (an innovation was Mistress Santa Claus), Durango held revivals, and Pagosa Springs fought a bitter campaign against “demon rum.”

1977, J. Alton Templin, Allen duPont Breck, Martin Rist, editors, The Methodist, Evangelical, and United Brethren Churches in the Rockies, 1850-1976, Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church, page 270:


basmala

en-noun

basmala (countable and uncountable, plural basmalas)

The basmala, also known as the tasmiya, is an Arabic word for the phrase bi- smillah ir-rahman ir-rahim, “In the name of God most compassionate, most merciful.” This is the first verse of the Quran; it begins all of its chapters but one (Q9)...

2009, Juan Eduardo Campo, Encyclopedia of Islam, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

But only Kufa and Mecca counted the basmala in al-Fatiha as verse 1, whereas the readers of Basra, Damascus and Medina did not count the basmala as a separate verse but achieved the number of seven verses by subdividing other...

2006, Oliver Leaman, The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 116:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم#Arabic

(Islam, countable) The prepositional phrase بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm, “In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate”).

(Islam, uncountable) The act of uttering Bismillah.


Scandinavian cross

Scandinavian cross (plural Scandinavian crosses)


prayopavesa

prayopavesa (countable and uncountable, plural prayopavesas)

From Sanskrit प्रायोपवेशनम् (prāyopaveśanam).

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प्रायोपवेशनम्

(Hinduism) The act of suicide by fasting, performed by a person who no longer has any desire, ambition or responsibilities in life.


suicide cult

A cult in which the members willingly commit group suicide.


preacherman

Shortly after, the preacherman moved to the Corporate Area where he founded a Zion Revival church, St Michael’s Revival Apostolic Tabernacle where, until his death in February 1989, he was the patriarchal bishop.

2019 July 20, Paul H. Williams, “The Kapo Factor”, in Jamaica Gleaner:


Promise Keeper

(Christianity) A member of the Promise Keepers, an Evangelical Christian parachurch organization for men, founded in the United States in 1990.


Massacre of the Innocents

the Massacre of the Innocents (canonical)

(Christianity) The incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.

Kindermoord van Bethlehem

Christianity: incident in the nativity narrative


Sumana

(Buddhism) The name of the 7th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vajraratna

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Piyadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 16th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Revata

(Buddhism) The name of the 8th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Saraṇaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 3rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Atthadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 17th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Medhaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 2nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vessabhū

(Buddhism) The name of the 24th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Anomadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 10th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vajrapāramitā

From Sanskrit वज्रपारमिता (vajrapāramitā).


Mandāravā

(Buddhism) A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.


Supuṣpacandra

From Sanskrit सुपुष्पचन्द्र (supuṣpacandra).

सुपुष्पचन्द्र


Koṇāgamana

(Buddhism) The name of the 26th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyasamudgata

From Sanskrit भैषज्यसमुद्गत (bhaiṣajyasamudgata).

भैषज्यसमुद्गत


Akasagarbha

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism


Sobhita

(Buddhism) The name of the 9th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Paduma

(Buddhism) The name of the 11th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vipassī

(Buddhism) The name of the 22nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Sujāta

(Buddhism) The name of the 15th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyarāja

From Sanskrit भैषज्यराज (bhaiṣajyarāja).


Siddhattha

(Buddhism) The name of the 19th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Padmasambhāva

From Sanskrit पद्मसम्भाव (padmasambhāva).


Maṅgala

(Buddhism) The name of the 6th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

មង្គលៈ

mɔɔngkɔɔlĕəʼ


Viśuddhacāritra

From Sanskrit विशुद्धचारित्र (viśuddhacāritra).

विशुद्धचारित्र


Kakusandha

(Buddhism) The name of the 25th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Sangharama

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism

(Buddhism) a monastic settlement where Sangha dwells. e.g. Valukarama of Vesali , Kukkutarama of Paliputra


Sumedha

(Buddhism) The name of the 14th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Mahāsthāmaprāpta

From Sanskrit महास्थामप्राप्त (mahāsthāmaprāpta).

महास्थामप्राप्त


Viśiṣṭacāritra

From Sanskrit विशिष्टचारित्र (viśiṣṭacāritra).

विशिष्टचारित्र


Dhammadassī

(Buddhism) The name of the 18th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Koṇḍañña

(Buddhism) The name of the 5th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

កោណ្ឌញ្ញៈ

-kaondɔɔññĕəʼ


Padumuttara

(Buddhism) The name of the 13th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Kṣitigarbha

From Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ (kṣitigarbha), literally “earth-womb”.


Sikhī

(Buddhism) The name of the 23rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Taṇhaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 1st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

តណ្ហង្ករៈ

tɑɑnhɑɑngkɑɑrĕəʼ


Samantabhadra

From Sanskrit समन्तभद्र (samantabhadra).


Dīpaṃkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 4th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyaguru

From Sanskrit भैषज्यगुरु (bhaiṣajyaguru).

(Buddhism) A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.


Skanda

Skanda Purana

(Hinduism) epithet of Kartikeya, the Hindu god of war.


Vairocana

(Buddhism) a celestial Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism


Vajratīkṣṇa

From Sanskrit वज्रतीक्ष्ण (vajratīkṣṇa).


Kassapa

Transliteration of Pali कस्सप (kassapa), from Sanskrit कश्यप (kaśyapa).

(Buddhism) The name of the 27th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Phussa

(Buddhism) The name of the 21st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Candraprabha

From Sanskrit चन्द्रप्रभ (candraprabha).

Coordinate term: Sūryaprabha


Jambhala

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जम्भल (jambhala).

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(Buddhism) a deity in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Virūpa

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विरूप (virūpa).

(Buddhism) A mahasattva in Vajrayana Buddhism.


Battabara

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit बत्तबर (battabara).


Supratiṣṭhitacāritra

From Sanskrit सुप्रतिष्ठितचारित्र (supratiṣṭhitacāritra).

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सुप्रतिष्ठितचारित्र

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism


Akṣayamati

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अक्षयमति (akṣayamati).

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सर्वनिवारणविष्कम्भिन् (sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin).

lbor

सर्वनिवारणविष्कम्भिन्


Mahāpratisarā

Transliteration of Sanskrit महाप्रतिसरा (mahāpratisarā).


Mahāmāyūrī

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit महामायूरी विद्याराज्ञी (mahāmāyūrī vidyārājñī, “great peacock”), from मह (maha) + मयूर (mayūra).

bor

महामायूरी विद्याराज्ञी


Aryadeva

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अर्यदेव (aryadeva).


Kurukullā

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुरुकुल्ला (kurukullā).


kasaya

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit काषाय (kāṣāya).

(Buddhism) A monastic robe worn by ordained Buddhist monks and nuns.


Cintāmaṇicakra

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चिन्तामणिचक्र (cintāmaṇicakra).

bor

चिन्तामणिचक्र


Anantacaritra

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अनन्तचारित्र (anantacāritra).

अनन्तचारित्र


Sadāparibhūta

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सदापरिभूत (sadāparibhūta).


Sūryaprabha

Coordinate term: Candraprabha


en-proper-noun

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints#English

(US, religion, Christianity) Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


Kaliya

Transliteration of Sanskrit कालिय (kāliya).

translit

(Hinduism) The name of a poisonous Naga living in the river Yamuna, who was killed by Krishna.


cardinalitial

From Italian cardinalizio (“cardinalitial”) + -al, from cardinale + -izio.

af

(Christianity) Of, relating to, or characteristic of a cardinal.

bíborosi

of, relating to,or characteristic of a cardinal


Jewitch

(religion) A practitioner of Jewish neopaganism.


chirothesia

/ˌkaɪɹəʊˈθiːʒə/

/ˌkaɪɹəʊˈθiːzi.ə/

laying on of hands
laying on of hands#English


chremsel

en-noun

chremsel (plural chremsels or chremslach)

(Judaism) A fried dumpling made of matzo meal and filled with fruit, typically prunes, and eaten on Passover.


chuhra

From Hindustani چُوہْڑا (cūhṛā) / चूहड़ा (cūhṛā).

Saai

people of Jesus; labourer; sweeper; Pakistani slur against Christians, meaning but also as or

"During a heated discussion of the budget, Abbasi called me churha (low caste). This is an insult to all religious minorities in Pakistan. His leader is also prejudiced. We only accept a Pakistan where there is no discrimination of color, cast [sic] or faith," said Tariq Gill, the Christian parliamentary secretary for human rights and minorities.

2018, Kamran Chaundhry, UCA Newshttps://www.ucanews.com/news/pakistani-politician-draws-censure-for-christian-slur/82356

(Pakistan, Christianity, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) A Hindu or (especially) a Christian convert from a lower caste.


Holy Church

From Middle English Holy Chirche, holi chirche, hali chirche, haly kirk, equivalent to holy + church.

According to the second definition, we all of us believe in one Holy Church from end to end of the world, Apostolic and Catholic, founded not on mere earthen stones, but on the spiritual rock of the orthodox faith of CHRIST.

1861, Nikolaos Bulgaris, A Holy Catechism, page 46:

Hear ye, then, what is said in a prayer composed by a sainted father, approved by the Holy Church, and read for all in the name of the Church on earth, […]

1898, Sebastian Dabovich, The Holy Orthodox Church, page 55:

He defines the Church of Christ or the Holy Church as “the multitude which rejoices in holy unity , a unity understood , not as being physically united in some country or province , or in any bodily place , but according to the union of one sign […]”

1944, The American Ecclesiastical Review:


Holy Rood

From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).

(Christianity) Synonym of True Cross: the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.


Holy Sepulchre

From Middle English Holy Sepulcre, holi sepulcre, equivalent to holy + sepulchre.

(Christianity) The tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion.


helek

For calendrical calculations, the day begins at 6 P.M., which is designated 0 hours. Hours are divided into 1080 halakim; thus one helek is 3 1/3 seconds.

1992, L.E. Doggett, “Calendars”, in P. Kenneth Seidelman, editor, Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, page 585:

By some estimates the mean lunation was actually 29.5 days and 793 halakim somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era.

2004, Sheldon Epstein, Bernard Dickman, Yonah Wilamowsky, “A 5765 Anomaly”, in Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, volume 38, number 3, page 585:

(Judaism) A unit of time equal to an eighteenth of a minute (3⅓ seconds)


Christianophilia

The love or admiration of the values of Christianity or of Christian civilization.


aspective

The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.

1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.

1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.

2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.


rhema

(Christianity) A spiritual communication or inspiration from God to an individual, as opposed to the universal Logos.


state of grace

When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.

1646, “Of Free-Will”, in The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, published 1946:

I found these statistics, in a condensed form, in a telegram of the Associated Press, and preserved them. They made it apparent that St. Louis was in a higher state of grace than she could have claimed to be in my time.

1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 51, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:

This is a state of grace / This is the worthwhile fight

2012, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “State of Grace”, in Red:

(Christianity) A condition free from mortal sin, in which one has the favor of God and enjoys unmerited divine assistance.


Bethuel

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:20:

The father of Rebekah and Laban; nephew of Abraham

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Mazhabi

From Persian مَذهَبی (mazhabi, “religious”), probably via Punjabi ਮਜ਼੍ਹਬੀ (mazhbī). Doublet of madhhabi.

A member of a certain Sikh group who were formerly Hindus and are known for military service.


Rodnover

en-adjective

Rodnover (comparative more Rodnover, superlative most Rodnover)

more Rodnover (comparative)
most Rodnover (superlative)

A Calque of Russian роднове́р (rodnovér) with the suffix -er, derived from Russian род (rod, “tribe, origin”) + Russian вера (vera, “faith”).

Pertaining to Rodnovery (Slavic Neopaganism).


Rodnover

A follower of Rodnovery (Slavic Neopaganism).


die roaring for a priest

en-verb

die roaring for a priest (third-person singular simple present dies roaring for a priest, present participle dying roaring for a priest, simple past and past participle died roaring for a priest)

dies roaring for a priest (present singular third-person)
dying roaring for a priest (participle present)
died roaring for a priest (participle past)
died roaring for a priest (past)

Variation of die roaring; in Catholicism, without a priest a dying person cannot receive the sacraments of confession or extreme unction.

“God’s curse down on you, Burke; may you never lie quiet in bed; may your children wither and die; may your rooftree fall; may your seed and breed in every generation from this day forward bring forth a thief or a murderer of his own kind; may brother rise against brother in every generation; may you never see the face of God; may you live to see the ruin of your family; may you die roaring for the priest and him far away—”

1973, Eilís Dillon, Across the Bitter Sea, page 436:

Suffice it to say that the barman physically hustled him towards the door, as Gus struggled and shouted, "I hope you die roaring for a priest."

1996, Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 654:

(Ireland, Catholicism, colloquial, dated) repent too late of one's sins; (hence) be damned


Yahwistic

Alternative form: Jahwistic

documentary hypothesis
documentary hypothesis

(history) Relating to the Yahwist, one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.


pasuk

bor

Hebrew פָּסוּק


Zebulunite

A descendant of Zebulun, tenth son of Jacob.


Zebulunite

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

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


contrascriptural

en-adj

contrascriptural (comparative more contrascriptural, superlative most contrascriptural)

more contrascriptural (comparative)
most contrascriptural (superlative)


wuxing

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 五行 (wǔxíng).

the five fundamental elements or phases of processes in traditional East Asian cosmology, consisting of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth


Cainitic

Cainitic (comparative more Cainitic, superlative most Cainitic)

more Cainitic (comparative)
most Cainitic (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Cainites.


rastacap

Sam rummaged through her bag for the Bob Marley rastacap she'd also picked up that afternoon, all on Jackson's tab.

2017, Nathan Birr, Chasing the Wind - The Douglas Files: Book Five: Book Five, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 13:

Jake's was black and depicted Bob Marley smoking a bong while wearing a red, green, and yellow rastacap.

2018, Nathan Birr, Fire & Ice, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 212:

A rastacap (§23.11) is a round knit cap often worn by Rastafarians with dreadlocks. I use it here as a mark of religious commitment comparable to the ṭaylasān, a garment draped over the head to indicate dedication to religious scholarship.

2020, al-Ḥarīrī, Impostures, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 213:

His body was emaciated, an effect he usually amplified with a rastacap mounted on his dreadlocks, which made his head look like a giant wasp's bottom. Not today, though. Today, Kero wore his dreadlocks au naturel.

2020, Burnaby Hawkes, The Haze, Athena Book Tavern, →ISBN, page 107:

A round, knit or crocheted cap associated with Rastafaris who have dreadlocks.


universal mind

Is it reasonable to give up the wisdom and righteousness of the universal mind, to contradict our clearest notions of things, and to acknowledge errors in the administration of the Deity, notwithstanding innumerable appearances in the frame of the world of his infinite power and perfection, rather than receive a plain, easy, and natural supposition, which is suggested to us in innumerable ways, which mankind in all ages have received, and which is agreeable to all our best sentiments and wishes?

1787, Richard Price, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, page 262:

The old saying that all is not gold which glitters, is true in respect to most of the prevailing systems of christianity in which the outside glitter and superficial tinsel will be found the device of man, while craft has cast a veil over that which is really the work of God. The web of mystery and the gewgaw of ceremony have been employed to obscure the moral lustre of the gospel. The grovelling wit of man has been substituted for the unspotted irradiations of the universal mind.

1807, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, “Eichhorn's Introduction to the New Testament”, in The Critical Review of Annals of Literature, volume X, number V, London, page 450:

The Mind, which is God, is pushing out into what man calls his mind.Our power to know comes from this Universal mind.

1965, Muriel Noyes Gillchrest, The Power of Universal Mind, page 196:


bhutatathata

(Buddhism) The unchanging essence of all things.


tafwiz

From Persian [Term?], from Arabic تَفْوِيض (tafwīḍ)

(Islam) The delegation of the power of divorce by the husband to the wife or any other party.


dravya

en-noun

dravya (countable and uncountable, plural dravyas)


Pandava

Transliteration of Sanskrit पाण्डव (pāṇḍava).

translit

(Hinduism) A son of Pandu (used to refer to one of the five heroes of the Mahabharata).


Dusares

From Latin Dūsārēs, from Ancient Greek Δουσάρης (Dousárēs), from a form akin to Arabic ذُو الشَّرَى (ḏū š-šarā), Safaitic 𐪙𐪆𐪇 (ḏs²r).

cog

ذُو الشَّرَى

Arabic ذُو الشَّرَى (ḏū š-šarā)

(Arabian mythology) A pre-Islamic Arabian god.


evolution of the gaps

Well, this is 'evolution-of-the-gaps.' Some scientists merely insert evolution when they don't understand something. “Look —we may not understand everything about these biological systems, but we do know some things. We do know that ...

2009, Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, Zondervan, →ISBN:

It is therefore clear how an evolution-of-the-gaps could be just as metaphysically motivated for an incautious atheist as a God-of-the-gaps could be for an incautious theist. For materialists there simply must eventually be a solution in terms of ...

2010, Michael L. Peterson, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Oxford University Press, USA:

(rare, creationism) Evolution, when used as an explanation for anything that is yet unexplained by science.


Clerk of the Closet

en-noun

Clerk of the Closet (plural Clerks of the Closet)

(obsolete) an ecclesiastic privately attending upon a monarch, a royal confessor.


closet-chapel

(religion) a closet used for private devotion; a private or small chapel.


kavadi

Borrowed from Tamil காவடி (kāvaṭi, “a burden”).

An arched wooden structure carried on the shoulders by Malaysian Hindus as a form of penance to Murugan.


Abundantia

(Ancient Roman religion) A goddess of abundance and prosperity.


adoptian

(Christianity) A proponent of adoptianism.


advocatrix

From Latin advocātrīx, from advocāre (“advocate”) + -trīx (“-ess”, forming feminine agent nouns), from ad- (“to, toward, on behalf of”) + vocāre (“speak”).

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female advocate, especially as a title of Mary, mother of Jesus.


Shabbat elevator

Shabbat elevator (plural Shabbat elevators)

(engineering, Judaism) An elevator/lift (device for transport within a building) which operates automatically on Shabbat, generally by stopping and opening its doors at each floor of the building, allowing observant Jews to make use of the elevator without violating Jewish prohibitions against operating electrical machinery on Shabbat.


Rajarshi

(Hinduism) A king who turned into a royal sage.


antiatonement

en-adj

antiatonement (comparative more antiatonement, superlative most antiatonement)

more antiatonement (comparative)
most antiatonement (superlative)

(religion) Rejecting the possibility of atonement for sin.


Pomak

A member of a group of Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northeastern Greece and mainly northwestern Turkey.


pratityasamutpada

(Buddhism) Dependent origination: a doctrine of Buddhist philosophy stating that all dharmas arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist".


moral police

A special police force in some conservative countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Malaysia that enforces religious laws by punishing sinners.


paradosis

religious teaching based on tradition or on the parables of Jesus


omnisufficient

(especially Christianity) sufficient in all things


Velchanos

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános). Possibly cognate with Chania on Crete.

(Greek mythology) A god of the ancient Minoans, originally associated with vegetation but later conflated with Zeus.


Staroobriadtsi

From Russian старообря́дцы (staroobrjádcy).

bor

старообря́дцы


Millerism

(Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Millerites.


kerystic

Formed on Ancient Greek κηρύσσω (kērússō, “I proclaim, I preach the gospel”).

(religion, rare) Concerning preaching, particularly preaching of the gospels.


OCCB

(Canada, Christianity) Abbreviation of Ontario conference of Catholic bishops.


Jophiel

From Hebrew יוֹפִיאֵל, literally "divine beauty".

Hebrew יוֹפִיאֵל

(religion) A non-canonical archangel of wisdom, understanding, and judgment, one of the Seven Archangels in Pseudo-Dionysian teachings.


Kiratism

A religion of the Kirati ethnic groups in Nepal, Darjeeling and Sikkim which are the Limbu, Rai, Sunuwar and Yakkha.


barzakh

(Islam) A place separating the living from the hereafter; a phase between death and resurrection.


Rabbinic Judaism

The mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud, having its roots in Pharisaic Judaism and based on the belief that Moses at Mount Sinai received two items from God: the written Torah and the oral Torah.


Church-of-Englandism

The religious practices and customs of the Church of England.


dakini

(Hinduism, Buddhism) A sacred female spirit.


nonabiding

(Buddhism) The practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life, except when meditating.


vinaya

(Buddhism) The rules that regulate Buddhist monastic life.


Korah

he-m

קורח / קֹרַח (kórakh)

(biblical) A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.


recording angel

en-noun

recording angel (plural recording angels)

(religion) An angel that records the events and actions of each individual human. This includes bad sins and good deeds.


peace line

The factory, dripping with symbolism, straddled the peace line in West Belfast, separating the loyalist Shankill Road from the republican Falls with an entrance at either end for the two communities.

1999 March 9, “Unstitching of the peace line factory”, in The Guardian:

McCallum and the small team are in touch by telephone with community workers on the loyalist side of the peace line, working constantly to defuse tensions, especially during the contentious summer marching season.

2015 September 29, Peter Geoghegan, “Will Belfast ever have a Berlin Wall moment and tear down its 'peace walls'?”, in The Guardian:

(Northern Ireland, often in the plural) A separation barrier in Northern Ireland that separates a predominantly republican and Catholic neighborhood from a predominantly loyalist and unionist Protestant neighborhood.


bris milah

1982, Bris Milah: A Book about the Jewish Ritual of Circumcision:

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of brit milah.


ghazism

War waged against non-Muslims by Muslims.


interadventual

(Christianity) Between the first and second advents of Jesus Christ.


rice bag

Ricebag Poperverts who sip blood of Jessus should be the last one to mock bhakts :)))

(India, religious slur, ethnic slur) A Christian, especially one who has just embraced Christianity.


unbegottenness

(theology) The quality of being unbegotten.


Sabbath mode

A feature of some household appliances that temporarily prevents them from doing productive work in order to comply with Jewish restrictions on working on the Sabbath.


orthodoxism

orthodoxism (usually uncountable, plural orthodoxisms)


theologal

(Christianity) A canon who teaches theology.


parousian

en-adjective

parousian (comparative more parousian, superlative most parousian)

more parousian (comparative)
most parousian (superlative)

From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).

der

We may dismiss at once the extremists of both types: those on the one hand whose laxity of conviction or conduct defended even attendance at the degrading public spectacles … and those who from extreme parousian standpoints made life of any sort practically impossible.

1908, Workman Herbert B, Persecution in the Early Church:

(Christianity) Relating to the second coming of Christ.


vowelist

(theology) One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.


deciser

Artist Archie Rand's iconograpy^([sic]) on thirty-seven themes was declared “kosher” for the Orthodox synagogue by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the leading halakhic deciser of his time.

1987, Alan M. Tigay, editor, The Jewish Traveler:

(Judaism) A rabbi who interprets Jewish religious law.


Phagiphany

From phago- + -i- + -phany. The -i- infix is a consequence of the word's coinage in Latin (phagiphania).

(Christianity, rare) Jesus' miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, commemorated in the Feast of the Epiphany.


have Jesus in one's heart

en-verb

have Jesus in one's heart (third-person singular simple present has Jesus in one's heart, present participle having Jesus in one's heart, simple past and past participle had Jesus in one's heart)

has Jesus in one's heart (present singular third-person)
having Jesus in one's heart (participle present)
had Jesus in one's heart (participle past)
had Jesus in one's heart (past)

Possibly a reference to Ephesians 3:14 and 17 of the Bible (King James Version, spelling modernized): “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, […] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, […]”.

(intransitive, Christianity, idiomatic) To be a firm believer in the Christian faith.

olla harras kristitty

to be a firm believer in the Christian faith


Euhemerus

From Latin Euhemerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + ἥμερος (hḗmeros, “tamed, civilized, domesticated”)).

der

(historical) An ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic philosopher, famed for a lost work proposing most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which became supernatural only through retelling.


Poseidonia

From Latin Poseidonia, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidōnía); or directly from Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidonía). From Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to Poseidon + -ia.

(religion, historical) An Ancient Greek festival celebrating Poseidon.


Ashkenormativity

Moreover, Sephardi communities have not been the subjects of enough studies, genetics-based or otherwise. Their titular exclusion from some DTC DNA testing companies' reference population lists helps perpetuate an already socially existent Ashkenormativity […]

2021, Caitlyn Rose Campana, Sephardi Identity & Legitimacy in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests (thesis), Miami: Florida International University, →OCLC, page 46:

While I do believe that Ashkenormativity has been a detriment to the Mizrahi people and Jews of color, it shouldn't be so much to ask for a world in which all voices are heard and respected.

2022, Hen Mazzig, The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto, New York: Wicked Son, →ISBN:

The assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.


seed-faith

In reference to Matthew 17:20: "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" (KJV).

(Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism.


Kilhamite

Named after Alexander Kilham (1762–1798), English Methodist minister, + -ite.

(historical, Christianity) A member of the Methodist New Connexion, a Protestant nonconformist church formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists.


Koreshanity

The set of religious and pseudoscientific beliefs put forth by Cyrus Teed (also known as Koresh), including reincarnation, immortality, alchemy, and the idea that the Earth and universe are contained within a concave sphere.


quinquagene

From the shared title of three works of St. Augustine, Medieval Latin Quinquagena either directly or via French quinquagene, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”), distributive form of quīnquāgintā (“50”). Cognate with quinquagent.

(Christianity) A set of 50 psalms, typically with an analytical commentary.


eidgah

From Persian عیدگاه (“place of Eid prayers”). See also English dargah.

(Islam, South Asia) An open-air enclosure used for Eid prayers on certain special occasions.


Elim

As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

אֵילִם אילם#Hebrew

(historical, biblical, Judaism) An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם


Elim

(biblical, Judaism) A class of angel found in Kabbalah from the Zohar.


Liberal Judaism

en-noun

Liberal Judaism (usually uncountable, plural Liberal Judaisms)

While Orthodox Judaism originated in Europe as a protest against Reform Judaism, the schism between the two groups eventually gave rise to a number of other Liberal Judaisms, so to speak, including Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism.

Any of the modern streams of Judaism outside the realms of Orthodox Judaism, especially those without doctrinal belief in a divinely authored Torah or immutable Talmudic law.


Jerusalem Talmud

Calque of Hebrew תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי (talmúd y'rushal'mí, “Jerusalem Talmud”).

cal

תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי

(Judaism) The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the land of Israel.


Babylonian Talmud

Calque of Hebrew תַּלְמוּד בָּבְלִי (talmúd bav'lí, “Babylonian Talmud”).

תַּלְמוּד בָּבְלִי

(Judaism) The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the Babylonian exile.


Romishly

en-adv

Romishly (comparative more Romishly, superlative most Romishly)

more Romishly (comparative)
most Romishly (superlative)


reshut

bor

Hebrew רְשׁוּת

Arvit is a reshut (an optional prayer) and although it has become established and is now mandatory, the Amidah is not repeated by the Sheli'ah Tzibbur.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 162:


Reubenite

A descendant of Reuben, first son of Jacob.


Reubenite

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


cenobitically

en-adv

cenobitically (comparative more cenobitically, superlative most cenobitically)

more cenobitically (comparative)
most cenobitically (superlative)


wakaf

(Singapore, Malaysia, Islam) Alternative spelling of waqf


shtiebel

From Yiddish שטיבל (shtibl, “small room/house, informal synagogue”), diminutive of שטוב (shtub) + ־ל (-l) from Old High German stuba, from Proto-Germanic *stubō.

bor

My brother's aufruf was last Shabbos as my father's shul, a shteibl he has attended since the early 60s (my beris was there, my bar mitzvah, my own aufruf, one of my sons' beris was there, etc...)

2004 November 16, Micha Berger, “Kosher Commercial Kitchen”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

The shtiebel fits that niche. Less structured than the large congregations, shtieblach offer a built-in community where everybody knows your name, but long-term expectations are low.

2017 October 2, Batsheva Neuer, “Return of the Shtiebel: Why Old-School Synagogues Are Making A Comeback”, in Forward:

(Judaism) A small, informal synagogue or shul.


Elistic

From El + -istic, relative adjective to Elism.

In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name שְׁמוּאֵל (1 Sam 1:20), […]

1989, Choon-Leong Seow, Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance (Harvard Semitic Monograph; 46), Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, published 2018, →ISBN, page 30:

Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities.

2001, Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen, Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel, London • New York: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 94:

The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+<ʾīl>. […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s²rḥʾl / s²rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names.

2021, Imar Y. Koutchoukali, “12: The quantity of the vowel <i> in the Sabaic word for God (ʾl): evidence from Arabic and Greek sources”, in George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka, editors, South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity. “Out of Arabia”, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:

Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.


Dinkoism

Rakesh Usha Raghunath (‘Samoosa Thrikonadhyaya’, his ‘religious’ name), one of the coordinators of the event, said that Dinkoism is not just a satirical religion but also a socio-political movement that introduces a^([sic]) alternative system through activism and political intervention.

2016 March 21, “'Dinkoists' Gather Under a Troll Tree”, in The New Indian Express:

A parody religion centered around Dinkan, a deity based on a Malayalam comic book who is an anthropomorphic superhero mouse.


paleotestamentary

Mostly from French paléotestamentaire; equivalent to paleo- + testamentary.

There was a time when biblical religion (paleotestamentary and neotestamentary alike) was studied almost exclusively in terms of individual faith.

1954 January, Samuel Lucien Terrien, “A Currently Neglected Aspect of Biblical Theology”, in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, page 7:

We have also consulted the sources themselves. For our purpose, these were the works of Josephus (the Jewish War, the Jewish Antiquities, and the Life), the New Testament, and certain sections of the palaeotestamentary literature—partly apocalyptic in nature—not included in the Canon.

1957, “The Futurists”, in Willard R[opes] Trask, transl., Man at the Crossroads, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, translation of El hombre en la encrucijada by José Ferrater Mora, →LCCN, part I (Philosophy, Anxiety, and Renewal), page 64:

PALAEO-TESTAMENTARY LITERATURE

1958, “The Transition from the Old Testament to the New”, in J. R. Foster, transl., edited by Henri Daniel-Rops, Biblical Criticism (The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism; volume 63 (8th by publication), section VI (The Word of God)), fifth printing, New York, N.Y.: Hawthorn Books, translation of La critique devant la Bible by Jean Steinmann, published 1963, →LCCN, part II (The Present State of Biblical Criticism), page 107:

In the floor, funeral slabs by Tommaso Pecci (XIV cent.) and broken fragments of the original floor of the Duomo (notably the Age of man by [Antonio] Federighi, 1475, and the Paleotestamentary episodes by [Domenico] Beccafumi).

1982, “Metropolitan Museum of Art”, in Studio Sandonà, transl., Siena: Its Art, Its Palio, Siena: Editions R.I.S., Italo Romboni, translation of Siena: son art, son palio by Sandro Chierichetti, section “Ground floor”, page 62, column 1:

Tomorrow, if I want to write this preface, I will set myself to running down all the paleo- and neo-testamentary courriers.

1987, “Envois”, in Alan Bass, transl., The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of La carte postale: De Socrate à Freud et au-delà by Jacques Derrida, →ISBN, section “7 September 1977”, page 75:

But I am headed rather toward the testament. Specifically, toward the stories of legacy or delegation on the inside, as en abyme, of what is called the neo- or the paleo-testamentary.

1993, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas, transl., Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins (Parti-pris series from the Louvre), Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of Mémoires d’aveugle: L’autoportrait et autres ruines by Jacques Derrida, →ISBN, page 21:

In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.

1997, “He Who Accompanies Me”, in George Collins, transl., The Politics of Friendship, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, translation of Politiques de l’amitié by Jacques Derrida, published 2005, →ISBN, page 185:

Probably because he had been born and raised in a Catholic country, though from a Protestant family, Eleazar felt less affinity for the Old than for the New Testament – its miracles, parables, and above all the presence of Jesus. The serpents of Paradise and of Moses took him back to the dawn of man, to the prophets, to Yahweh, a world that seemed brutal and archaic to him. But his Lutheran teachers in Downpatrick disapproved of this view. They taught a return to the paleotestamentary source.

2002, Jonathan F. Krell, transl., Eleazar, Exodus to the West, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, translation of Éléazar ou La Source et le Buisson by Michel Tournier, →ISBN, chapter II, page 8:

Persistence to cling to these texts, however valuable they may be, hence signifies to grasp only small parts of the truth, as only the embracing of Christianity can guarantee a return to the unspoiled and oldest sources of wisdom; an argumentation also to be found somewhat later in Tertullian (150-230), who, in his Apologeticum (197), refered^([sic]) to the old age of paleotestamentary revelation as evidence for their truthfulness by stating ‘Their high antiquity, first of all, claims authority for these writings’, but also included the Jews themselves into the list of the peoples in possession of parts of the divine revelation, but unable to grasp their complete meaning:[…]

2014, David Engels, “Historising Religion between Spiritual Continuity and Friendly Takeover. Salvation History and Religious Competition during the First Millenium^([sic]) AD.”, in David Engels, Peter Van Nuffelen, editors, Religion and Competition in Antiquity (Collection Latomus; volume 343), Brussels: Éditions Latomus, page 251:

We will decidedly have to resist the Christian or more generally testamentary (paleo- or neotestamentary) slant of this discourse.

2017, “The Ci-Devant God”, in Philippe Lynes, transl., Advances, Minneapolis, Minn.: Univocal, the University of Minnesota Press, translation of Avances by Jacques Derrida, →ISBN, →LCCN:

Hence the Catholic dogmas, in the end, are not essentially evangelical: they are primarily paleo-testamentary; they go back to Genesis.

2017, “Tenth Session: March 28, 2001”, in Elizabeth Rottenberg, transl., edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Marc Crépon, The Death Penalty, volume II, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of Séminaire: La peine de mort by Jacques Derrida, →DOI, →ISBN, section 346, page 259:


Capernaism

(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) Belief in transubstantiation.


FORB

Initialism of freedom of religion or belief.


examination of conscience

en-noun

examination of conscience (plural examinations of conscience)

(religion) A review of one's thoughts, words, actions, and omissions for the purpose of ascertaining conformity with, or deviation from, the moral law.


final reckoning

final reckoning (countable and uncountable, plural final reckonings)

From final + reckoning (“act or occasion of accounting to God after death for one’s conduct in life”).

compound

judgement day

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism) Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits”)


kirkland

(Scotland, especially in plural) Land owned by the church.


Poor Clares

From the order's namesake Saint Clare and its vows of poverty.

(Roman Catholicism) The Order of Saint Clare.


Poor Clare

The Poor Clares... have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.

1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume XVI, page 711:

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:

(Catholicism) A nun of the Poor Clares, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.


kallah

(Judaism) A meeting of yeshiva students for discussion and studying.


kallah

What if women make their own zimmun at a gathering during the week following a wedding. Can the kalla be part of the minyan?

2008 February 25, yaco...@aol.com, “New guide for halachic and egalitarian minyan”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


Hemerobaptism

(religion, historical) The religion of the Hemerobaptists.


hashiya

bor

Arabic حَاشِيَة (ḥāšiya)


Hurufism

(Islam, historical) A Sufi doctrine based on the mysticism of letters.


tree of knowledge

en-noun

tree of knowledge (countable and uncountable, plural trees of knowledge)

Meronym: forbidden fruit

Coordinate term: tree of life

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

She asked her wise rebbe how God came to be in His place, and where He found the stuff to make the world of[…]. Finding from his unsatisfying replies that the rebbe was but a barren branch on the tree of knowledge, the good little girl never betrayed to the world, by look or word, her discovery of his limitations, but continued to accord him, outwardly, all the courtesy due to his calling.

(biblical) One of the trees in the Garden of Eden.


Narakasura

Transliteration of Sanskrit नरकासुर (narakāsura). Related to Naraka and Asura.

translit

An Asura who established Pragjyotisha kingdom, killed by Krishna on the day before Diwali.


Pragjyotisha

Transliteration of Sanskrit प्राग्ज्योतिष (prāgjyotiṣa).

प्राग्ज्योतिष


Bhagadatta

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás
Sanskrit भग (bhaga)
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-der.
Sanskrit दत्त (datta)
Sanskrit भगदत्त (bhagadatta)translit.
English BhagadattaTransliteration of Sanskrit भगदत्त (bhagadatta).

etymon

A king of Pragjyotisha kingdom and the son of Narakasura, who fought for the Kauravas in the Mahabharata; killed by Arjuna.


nenbutsu

(Buddhism) The chanting of the name of Amitābha Buddha, thought to rescue the devotee to the pure land.


Adorantes

(Christianity, historical) Those Unitarians who believed that it was lawful to worship Christ as a divinity.


Udasi

(religion) A member of a religious sect of ascetics centred in northern India, who rose to prominence in the 17th century and gained control of Sikh shrines in the 18th century.


Nonadorantes

(Christianity, historical) Those Unitarians who believed that it was not lawful to worship Christ as a divinity.


Apostolos

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Απόστολος (Apóstolos).

ubor

(Christianity) A book containing texts traditionally believed to be authored by one of the twelve apostles.


Exaudi

(Christianity) Sunday within the octave of Ascension


nonascertaining

(Buddhism) Of or relating to unconscious cognition, in which the mind does not engage with objects or recognize them.


getsul

(Buddhism) A novice monk in Tibetan Buddhism.


sandhyavandanam

en-noun

sandhyavandanam (usually uncountable, plural sandhyavandanams)

(Hinduism) A religious ritual accompanied by recitation from the Vedas and including an offering of water to the Sun, supposed to be performed three times a day.


Phthonus

From Ancient Greek Φθόνος (Phthónos, “Phthonos, god of envy and jealousy”), from φθόνος (phthónos, “envy, jealousy”).

bor

Coordinate term: Invidia

(Greek mythology) The god of jealousy and envy.


Manvantara

(Hinduism) In Hindu cosmology, a cyclic period of time identifying the duration, reign, or age of a Manu, the progenitor of mankind.


bedikah

(Judaism) A ritual inspection or examination.


Benedictinism

(Christianity) The practices and beliefs of the Benedictine order.


berakhah

en-noun

berakhah (plural berakhahs or berakhoth)

Borrowed from Hebrew בְּרָכָה (b'rakhá).

(Judaism) A formula of blessing or thanksgiving.


Ismahel

(biblical, Douay bible) Obsolete form of Ishmael.


Bullockite

(historical, Protestantism) A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists, founded by Jeremiah Bullock, which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine and New Hampshire.


mark of the beast

mark of the beast (plural marks of the beast)

From Middle English, 1350–1400; earliest use in Wycliffe's Bible. Calque of Ancient Greek χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου (kháragma toû thēríou).

calque

χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου

[And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 13:16–18:

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:1–2:

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:19–20:

'Tis much disputed who Antichrist is,
I think 'tis the Rump, nor am I in jest,
For indeed, although of the number it miss,
Of this I am sure 'thas the mark of the Beast.

1662, “Saint George for England”, in Rump: or An Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times, volume II, London: Henry Brome, Henry Marsh, →OCLC, page 126:

Now a man may be said to receive the mark of the beast in his forehead, when as a man doth worship in that form and manner, as is set up by the beast's authority willingly, then doth a man receive the mark in his forehead. And when a man receives the mark of the beast in his right hand, it is when men do worship, and bow down to that form of worship, or image set up by the beast against a man's own mind, or unwillingly, for fear he shall suffer if he do it not. This is to receive the mark of the beast in his right hand. For if the mark of the beast be not seen in the forehead, or in the right hand, they shall either be killed or not suffered to trade ; that is, to buy and sell; one of these he must be sure to suffer if he hath not the mark in either of those two places, aforesaid. That is, if the people do not come to the public worship set up by the beast, either willingly or unwillingly, it was known that they had not received the mark of the beast, neither in the forehead, nor in the right hand.

1662, Lodowicke Muggleton, A True Interpretation of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation of St. John (Religion), published 1753, page 177:

17. That no man might buy or sell—Such edicts have been published long since against the poor Vaudois; but he that had the mark, namely, the name of the first beast, or the number of his name—The name of the beast is that which he bears through his whole duration, viz. that of papa or pope. The number of his name is the whole time during which he bears this name. Whosoever therefore receives the mark of the beast, does as much as if he said expressly, " I acknowledge the present papacy as proceeding from God:" or, " I acknowledge that what St. Gregory VII. has done according to his legend, (authorized from Benedict XIII.,) and what has been maintained in virtue thereof, by his successors to this day, is from God." By the former, a man hath the name of the beast, as a mark; by the latter, the number of his name. In a word, to have the name of the beast is to acknowledge his papal holiness: to have the number of his name is to acknowledge the papal succession. The second beast will enforce the receiving this mark, under the severest penalties.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 705:

Floridalma Galvez, 34, said the calls and WhatsApp messages began weeks before any vaccine was approved, from cousins in Chicago, Florida and her native Guatemala: The vaccine was “the mark of the beast,” they told her, a reference to Satan or the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation.

2021 February 11, Teo Armus, “Among Latino immigrants, false vaccine claims are spreading as fast as the virus”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-02-12:

(theology, eschatology) a mark on the person of worshippers of the Antichrist; without the mark one cannot buy or sell.


Buzzellite

(historical, Protestantism) A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists founded by John Buzzell.


Kyriopascha

(Christianity) The occurrence of Pascha (Easter) and Lady Day (the Annunciation) on the same day.


preaching band

When leading worship, Elsie usually wore a long black cassock and preaching bands. This would, of course, save her from the worry of choosing a suitable costume.

2014, Alan Argent, Elsie Chamberlain: The Independent Life of a Woman Minister, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203:

(Christianity, in the plural) Two bands (strips of linen) worn as formal neckwear by members of the Christian clergy.


shanti

Transliteration of Sanskrit शान्ति (śānti, “calmness, peace, tranquillity; quietness, rest”), from शम् (śam, “to exert or fatigue oneself, toil at; to become tired, come to an end, finish, stop; to be calm, contented, quiet, or satisfied; to calm, pacify, settle, soothe”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱemh₂- (“to exert oneself, toil”)) + -ति (-ti, suffix denoting a state of being).

der

[lines 431–432, page 49] Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. / Shantih shantih shantih […] [page 64, note 433] Shantih. Repeated as here, a formal ending to a Upanishad. "The Peace which passeth understanding" is a feeble translation of the content of this word.

1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part V. What the Thunder Said.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, pages 49 and 64:

(Hinduism) A call for peace, often recited three times as a prayer for peace of the soul.


shanti

Shanti

peace, tranquility — see also peace, tranquility


nihilianism

(theology, Christianity) A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.


nirmanakaya

en-noun

nirmanakaya (countable and uncountable, plural nirmanakayas)

Coordinate term: sambhogakaya

(Buddhism) The third aspect of the Trikaya: the physical manifestation of a Buddha in time and space.


kiswah

(Islam) The cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.


tallapoi

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Headhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/50416/50416-h/50416-h.htm
Their Priest, which they call Tallapoi, are seeming very zealously superstitious: they somewhat incline to Mahometanism; for they pretend they will not drink wine, being forbidden it by their Law, yet are abominable hypocrites: for, though they wear a sheep-skin with the wool thereon, not suffering any hair to be on their bodies, and in shew lead a chaste life, yet I found the contrary; as you shall understand by what past between one of them and my self.


hisbah

(Islam) An Islamic doctrine that requires upholding community morals and law and order.


tazir

(Islam) Punishment for offenses at the discretion of the judge or ruler of the state; one of three major types of punishments or sanctions under sharia law.


spirit-filled

en-adj

spirit-filled (comparative more spirit-filled, superlative most spirit-filled)

more spirit-filled (comparative)
most spirit-filled (superlative)

(Christianity) controlled or directed by the Holy Spirit


Jewling

[…] while it is our frivolity, our rottenness and our vices, inculcated by us and copied from us, that these Hebraiculi, these degenerate Jewlings, are practising for the sake of our pleasure or their own profit.

1895, Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Israel Among the Nations: A Study of the Jews and Antisemitism, page 270:

Predominantly young Jewlings come from Russia and Eastern Europe, working to secure “professional” careers as teachers, social workers, lawyers, accountants […]

2011, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars:


jagrata

(Hinduism) A Hindu ritual consisting of an all-night vigil with singing and dancing, held in honour of a deity.


His Beatitude

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorific title given to patriarchs


slay someone in the Spirit

en-verb

slay<,,slew,slain> someone in the Spirit

slay someone in the Spirit (third-person singular simple present slays someone in the Spirit, present participle slaying someone in the Spirit, simple past slew someone in the Spirit, past participle slain someone in the Spirit)

slays someone in the Spirit (present singular third-person)
slaying someone in the Spirit (participle present)
slew someone in the Spirit (past)
slain someone in the Spirit (participle past)

(Christianity) Among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians: to cause a person (through prayer, anointing, laying on of hands, etc.) to fall to the floor in religious ecstasy, attributed to the power of the Holy Spirit.


unIslamically

en-adv

unIslamically (comparative more unIslamically, superlative most unIslamically)

more unIslamically (comparative)
most unIslamically (superlative)

In Allah's view, the greatest crime a human being can commit is shirk - which is worshipping an unIslamic God, or worshipping God unIslamically (assigning companions etc).

2012 February 1, Sentenced to die, The Express Tribune:

They similarly wanted to be excused from physical education which they claimed unIslamically exposed their bodies.

1986, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (Nigeria), Religious Disturbances in Nigeria, page 29:

Her arms and legs are unIslamically bare, and she is trailing an inevitable handbag.

1989, John Simpson, Behind Iranian Lines, page 80:

As one Jamaat-e-Islami member observed, the state may not have declared it as against Islam, but 'Pakistan's leaders and army [began] acting unIslamically so some people who go to wage jihad against America will realize they must fight Pakistan too because Pakistan is helping America'.

2015, Ravi Kalia, Pakistan's Political Labyrinths: Military, society and terror, page 96:

He was clean shaven but his armpits, I noticed, were unIslamically hairy.

2012 March 15, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, London: John Murray Press; Martin Yeoman (illustrator), →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


ISIS-K

Instead, the president sought to justify his handling of the final weeks of the war, saying that the U.S. military and its diplomats deserved credit and thanks for ferrying out more than 120,000 Americans and Afghan allies in the face of the Taliban takeover and terrorist threats from ISIS-K, an affiliate of the Islamic State.

2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Khorasan#English

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Khorasan#English

Abbreviation of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Khorasan / Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Khorasan: Daesh-Khorasan


spookological

In an autobiographical essay published in 1997, Money explains “[t]he general tendency is to want to say that gender identity is either biological or not biological — to which my jocular response is that if it’s not biological, then it must be spookological or occult, for there is a biology of learning and remembering, and it does affect the brain, doesn’t it?”

2017 June 30, Michaela Koch, Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies Between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, →ISBN:

(informal) Relating to the study of ghosts.


provicar

/pɹəʊˈvɪkə(ɹ)/

(Roman Catholicism) The deputy of an vicar apostolic


Spiritualist

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(historical, Christianity) An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.


Spiritualist

(historical, Christianity) Pertaining to the Spiritualists.


Porkistan

Blend of pork + Pakistan. Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, Pakistan’s predominant and official religion. By surface analysis, pork + -i- + -stan.

Coordinate term: Endia

(derogatory, offensive, slang) Pakistan.


oldline

(religion) Of or relating to the older mainline churches of the United States.


neo-orthodoxy

(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.


Nikonite

(religion) A supporter of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the Raskol.


National Catholicism

(historical) The hegemony of the Catholic Church over all aspects of public and private life, one aspect of Francoism.


gyani

Borrowed from Hindi ज्ञानी (jñānī), from Sanskrit ज्ञानी (jñānī). Distantly related to know.

bor

Hindi ज्ञानी (jñānī)

The title given to the person who can read and interpret is gyani, a word which has its roots in the Sanskrit word for ‘wisdom’. A gyani also sings kirtan, devotional songs which again impart religious and moral teaching. A gyani is not a priest but a teacher; […]

1993, Gerald Parsons, The Growth of Religious Diversity: Britain in 1945, London: Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 234, →ISBN:

(Sikhism) Alternative spelling of giani.


librandu

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent supporter of the Indian National Congress or its leader Rahul Gandhi.


rashtravadi

Borrowed from Hindi राष्ट्रवादी (rāṣṭravādī).

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The Hindu rashtravadis should take lessons from the fate of Pakistan which due to the stupidity of its leaders lost its eastern wing and remains united with great difficulty and repression.

1991, Islamic Perspective: Volume 7, Issue 2, Bombay: Institute of Islamic Studies, page 440:

Attempts to ‘unify’ the Hindus into being Indian rashtravadis are bound to produce similarly disastrous results, as we can see from the continuous ethnic strife in Pakistan.

1998, Madhu Kishwar, Religion at the service of nationalism and other essays, Delhi: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 274, →ISBN:

The Congress-led UPA government has interpreted the electoral verdict of Lok Sabha elections of May 2004 as a defeat of religion-based politics of Hindu Rashtravadis and the victory of the secular political formations.

2006, Chandra Prakash Bhambhri, Sonia in Power: UPA Government, 2004-2006, Delhi: Shipra, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 187, →ISBN:

(chiefly India) A nationalist, especially a Hindutvist or supporter of Hindutva.


pantiler

From pantile + -er. Hotten suggests a derivation from the slang pantile (“hat”), because of the distinctive sugar-loaf hats worn by Puritans, or the habit of Quakers and many Dissenters of not removing their hats in a place of worship; or else from pantile (“type of roof tile”) with which the meeting-houses of Dissenters were usually covered.

(UK, religion, slang, obsolete) A preaching Dissenter.


low and slow

Now who can tell what a good word may do this high-spirited boy, who thinks true religion a low and slow affair? I tell you, my dear boy, a real Christian has an elevated, though an humble mind.

1862, Christian Treasury, volume 18, page 227:

Thus the "Evangelical," called also "the Low Church party," became, in the opinion of its adversaries, the low and slow church.

1871, Isaak August Dorner, History of Protestant Theology, Particularly in Germany, page 487:

(Christianity, derogatory) Adapted to be palatable to an ordinary person; relaxed and undemanding.


hear voices

en-verb

hear voices (third-person singular simple present hears voices, present participle hearing voices, simple past and past participle heard voices)

hears voices (present singular third-person)
hearing voices (participle present)
heard voices (participle past)
heard voices (past)

They're hearing voices, they may have delusional thinking. They may have illogical thinking, so that when you talk to them they don't make very good sense. That's the disease called schizophrenia.

1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC:

From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium.

2018 June, Martin Greig, “Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”, in Church History, →DOI, page 439:

(idiomatic) Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.


Albanian Orthodox Church

the Albanian Orthodox Church (canonical)

An autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.


kartavya

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्तव्य (kartavya).

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Tell me what my kartavya, duty, is and I shall follow it. You saved me from burning in the fire, so have the grace to tell me about it.

2017, Vasudha Dalmia, Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories, Albany: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184, →ISBN:

Duty and action are roughly equivalent to kartavya and karma respectively. In popular parlance, duty means what one should do; while karma is the sumtotal of what one did, does and will do. Duty is relative, local and subjective. Gita talks of karma, not of kartavya. How you perform your kartavya in the light of the standards of karma is your comprehension and appreciation of the Gita.

2002, Hullasa Behera, 50 flowers from Bhagavat Gita: a solace against frightening materialism, Delhi: Pustak Mahal, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62, →ISBN:

The key concept here is kartavya (duty), and like other concepts such as dharma and karma, it is difficult to translate it precisely. The fact is we have so many kartavyas, or duties specific to a relationship, as a spouse, parent, family, friend, citizen, professional, social, religious, and so on. And often they are conflicting and difficult to harmonize. […] From time immemorial all great men, faced with conflicting priorities, agonized over what their kartavya was in the ever-shifting circumstances of their life. And they made hard choices, which sometimes entailed suffering of the ‘innocent’, but had they chosen a different course, they would have been guilty of not performing their kartavya. Epics are replete with examples. In the Ramayana, Rama had to abandon his pregnant wife Sita, usually revered as the incarnation of goddess Lakshmi and a personification of purity, at the altar of his kartavya as the king. Was he right? In the Mahabharata, Bhishma fought on the side of adharma or evil, as he felt that his kartavya was to honor his vow to serve the king of Hastinapura. Was he right? Life is far more complex and complicated now, the borders between right and wrong, and between caste, creed, and class are at once blurred and sharper, and our desire to discern our kartavya is far more agonizing. […] We often find that our duties and obligations to different people, entities, and institutions clash with each other, and that our cognition and faculties are inadequate to harmonize them and show the way to our kartavya.

2020, Bhimeswara Challa, The War Within - Between Good and Evil (Reconstructing Money, Morality and Mortality), page 491:

(rare outside Hinduism) A duty, obligation, task.


vedana

en-noun

vedana (countable and uncountable, plural vedanas)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वेदन (vedana).


viddui

(Judaism) confession of one's sins before God


gythja

(Germanic paganism) A priestess of the modern Norse religion.


Svarog

Learned borrowing from Old East Slavic Сварогъ (Svarogŭ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Sъvarogъ.

learned borrowing

(Slavic mythology) the god of fire, blacksmithing, and possibly sky.


carecloth

(historical, Christianity) A sort of veil held over the heads of a newly married couple as they received the blessing.


pretrib

(Christianity, informal) Short for pretribulation.


Mu'tazili

en-adj

Mu'tazili (comparative more Mu'tazili, superlative most Mu'tazili)

more Mu'tazili (comparative)
most Mu'tazili (superlative)

borrowed

مُعْتَزِلِيّ

They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.

2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

(Islam, historical) Of or relating to the Mu'tazila.


Mu'tazili

مُعْتَزِلِيّ

(Islam, historical) A follower of Mu'tazili Islam.


artha

en-noun

artha (usually uncountable, plural arthas)

(Hinduism) One of the four aims of human life in Indian philosophy, along with dharma (righteousness), kama (desire), and moksha (liberation). The concept is variously translated, with translations including "meaning"/"purpose"/"goal" and "wealth".


skybook

From sky + book. Also Calque of Urdu آسمانی کتاب (asmānī kitāb, “heavenly book”), a popular term used in Pakistan for the Quran.
Referring to the belief that the Quran was first revealed by an angel to Muhammad, a prophet in Islam, so it is considered as a book from Heaven.

calque

(India, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, Islam, religious slur) the Qur'an.

(India, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, Christianity, religious slur, less often by extension) the Bible.


fluffy bunny

en-noun

fluffy bunny (countable and uncountable, plural fluffy bunnies)

(Wicca, paganism, informal, derogatory, countable) A casual, naive practitioner of Wicca or another neo-pagan religion, especially one deemed to have a superficial understanding.


Harapha

Transliteration of Hebrew הָרָפָה (harafá).

translit

A Philistine woman who appears in the biblical story of Samson.


Khariji

From Arabic خارجي (“abandoner, quitter”).

His keynote speech was delivered on his arrival, incognito, in al-Kufah, which at the time was a focus of Khariji dissidence.

2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 247:

(Islam, historical) A member of an early Islamic sect who initially supported Ali but then seceded from his army; a Kharijite.


WitchTok

Is ‘WitchTok’ to blame for the popularisation of manifestation amongst Gen Z?

2020, Phoebe Bowers, "The Dawn of Manifesttion", Quench (Cardiff University), November 2020, page 9

On TikTok, the 'WitchTok' community grew exponentially, with influencers posting tarot card readings, manifestations, and good luck spells that their followers could watch from home.

2021 January 22, Caitlin O'Sullivan, “Something Wicked”, in Cherwell, Oxford University, page 3:

Today is the day to take a risk (and maybe finally try out that spell you saw on WitchTok)!

2021 February 14, Gina Feliz, “Nasstrology: Valentines Day Edition”, in The Nassau Weekly, page 9:

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented accounts on TikTok.


namazi

From Urdu نماز (namāz), Urdu نمازی (namāzī), and their source, Persian نماز (namâz).

(India, Pakistan, Islam) A devout Muslim.

(India, Pakistan, Islam, Internet slang, derogatory) A Muslim, especially a bigot or a religious extremist.


Jairus

From Latin Iaīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρος (Iáïros), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Jair.

der

(biblical) The father of a young girl resurrected by Jesus Christ.


godspouse

This could be just an important conversation or something as formal and intense as a marriage to a mortal godspouse. Occasionally it will involve an […]

2009, Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera, Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Anya Kless is a dual-tradition, polytheistic pagan priestess, godspouse, and spirit worker. She is the primary author and editor of Lilith: Queen of the Desert and is at work on an upcoming book on the godspouse path.

2012, Gina Pond, Sarah Thompson, Calyxa Omphalos, Philip Tanner, Jacobo Polanshek, Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism, Circle of Cerridwen, →ISBN, page 122:

(paganism, especially Germanic paganism) A mortal person who marries a deity.


Urbanist

From Urban + -ist. In reference to Catholic nuns, from the promulgation of a separate rule of conduct by Pope Urban IV.

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

(Catholicism) A Poor Clare who follows or advocates the use of revised codes of conduct in place of the original precepts established by Saint Clare.


kevalin

(Jainism) One who has attained a state of complete understanding or supreme wisdom.


kiddushin

From Jewish Babylonian Aramaic קידושין (literally “sanctifications”), plural of קידוש. Syntactically equivalent to, but differs in meaning from, Hebrew קִדּוּשִׁים.

cog

Hebrew קִדּוּשִׁים

Just as Kiddushin takes place when the groom puts a ring on his bride's finger, so we, too, wind a strap around our finger and are sanctified unto the Holy One, blessed be He.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 218:

(Judaism) An engagement (promise to marry) between a man and a woman, made by themselves or by relatives.


Jewism

[…] in asserting the unfitness of the four great beasts of Jewism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Infidelity to reign over us, […]

1840, James Elishama Smith, The Little Book; Or, Momentous Crisis of 1840, page 35:

And, moreover, in whatever manner the Jews may have sought to establish their doctrines, so, likewise, were all religions, long prior and subsequent to the existence of Jewism, spread abroad.

1864, James Boully, The Oxford Declaration and the Eleven Thousand, page 10:


Jaichand

From Jaichand, Hindi variant of Sanskrit Jayachandra, a Gahadavala king whose rule immediately preceded the Ghurid Muslim conquest of much of India, and who was unfairly accused in the poem Prithviraj Raso of conspiring with the Ghurids against India in order to defeat his rival Prithviraj. From Hindi जयचन्द (jaycand), from Sanskrit जय (jaya, “victory”) + चन्द्र (candra, “moon”).

2021, Devdutt Patanaik, MumbaiMirrorhttps://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/someone-who-subscribed-to-a-larger-idea-one-that-went-beyond-the-self/articleshow/78467866.cms
But in Hindutva mythology, Jaichand is the archetypal traitor because of whom Muslims are able to invade and conquer India, overpowering the valiant Rajputs.

(India, politics, slang, derogatory) One who opposes Hindutva and supports its enemies, a traitor, especially a race traitor.


Belteshazzar

From Hebrew בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר (bēletešaṣṣar), from Akkadian 𒊩𒆪𒈗𒋀 (beltu-šar-uṣur).

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בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר

Hebrew בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר (bēletešaṣṣar)

(biblical) Babylonian name of the biblical prophet Daniel (cf. Daniel 1:7)


JMT

(religion) Initialism of Jesus myth theory.


grammatico-historical

(theology) Alternative form of historico-grammatical


abnormalist

On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).

2002, David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, page 21:

Abnormalists, in contrast, view the world as fundamentally broken, skewed or distorted. Christians believe that we live in an abnormal state—biologically, socially, psychologically, volitionally, emotionally—[…]

2009, Mark R. McMinn, Clark D. Campbell, Integrative Psychotherapy, page 289:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.


ainoi

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αἶνοι (aînoi), plural of αἶνος (aînos).

lbor

(Christianity) lauds; a prayer service following matins


ajari

(Buddhism) In Japanese Buddhism, a senior monk who teaches students.


caeremoniarius

(historical, religion) An official in charge of religious ceremonies.


Barelvi

en-adj

Barelvi (comparative more Barelvi, superlative most Barelvi)

more Barelvi (comparative)
most Barelvi (superlative)

From Urdu بریلوی (barelvī); which means "of Bareilly" from Bareilly, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India; the location in which the movement began.

Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.


bhagwa

Transliteration of Hindi भगवा (bhagvā, “saffron”). Saffron is a sacred colour in Hinduism, and it is also associated with ultra-nationalist Hindtuva groups.

translit

(Indian politics, Hindutva, slang, derogatory) a Hindutvavadi, a supporter of Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


sanghi

From Hindi संघी (saṅghī), from Hindi राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ (rāṣṭrīya svayansevak saṅgh), a Hindu nationalist right-wing group in India. Ultimately from Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).

der

राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ

sanghification

making something more closer to Hindu nationalism

BJP leaders including H Raja posted clips of old newspapers and posters to support Rajini’s [Rajinikanth, an Indian film actor] claim about the Salem rally, while the DMK and its allies mocked the actor for "superficial" comments and aligning with right-wingers even before launching his political party formally. Hashtags like "Can't apologise" and "Sanghi Rajini" were trending through the day.

(India) a Hindutvavadi or a Hindu nationalist or patriotismic.


Taoist dual cultivation

(Taoism) The process of cultivation involving sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.


Porrima

(Roman mythology) The goddess Antevorta.


Catholic Epistle

en-noun

Catholic Epistle (plural Catholic Epistles)

(biblical) Any one of the New Testament Epistles of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1 John, Jude, and sometimes 2 and 3 John, which are not addressed to specific individuals or Churches.


Pastoral Epistle

Pastoral Epistle (plural Pastoral Epistles)

(biblical) One of three Epistles of the New Testament including 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus which contain instructions for church officers and organization.