neti neti

And so: The indication of Brahman is Neti, Neti — Not this, Not this, for beyond saying Neti, Neti, there is nothing else possible — for It is Truth beyond Truth

1970, Rohit Mehta, The Call of the Upanishads (1999 edition), p. 257 (quoting the Upanishadic figure, Ajatasatru of Kasi)

The multiethnic crowd wore gym clothes, traditional Indian garb and a few political T-shirts. […] [M]ost said they were drawn by the mix of yoga and politics — and a chance to say neti-neti to President Bush.

2004 July 20, Michael Ordona, “Going to the mat for Kerry”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2019-10-22:

[T]he Brihadaranyaka Upanishad uses negatives to describe God: "The Divine is not this and it’s not that (Neti, neti)," Sage Yajnyavalkya tells his students.

2014 September 3, Vithal C Nadkarni, “Of Angels & Crocodiles”, in India Times, The Economic Times, retrieved 2019-10-22:

(Hinduism) In Vedic and subsequent Hindu philosophy, the doctrine of "not this, not that", which holds that Brahman (the Supreme Being, God) has absolutely no specific characteristics and cannot be described in positive terms.


arahantship

according to the scriptures arahantship is possible as long as the Dhamma exists. He went on to say, however, that while arahantship may be theoretically or doctrinally possible, it is realistically impossible because of the absence today of both suitable teachers and people with pure, clear minds.

1992, George D. Bond, The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., →ISBN, page 140:

First the fruit of arahantship arises, then the knowledge of destruction.

2005, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 746:

He attempts in his sermons to help his audience bring together several components of practice: faith (P. saddhā) in the Buddha as the exemplary arahant, understanding the special place of the Paṭṭhāna in the quest for arahantship,

2011, Jason A. Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 156:


baby dedication

en-noun

baby dedication (countable and uncountable, plural baby dedications)

(Christianity, uncountable) Dedication of infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service.

(Christianity, countable) The ceremony of dedicating infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service, usually performed before God and the church.


holy fool

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation.

fol-en-Christ

person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation


Asherah

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

1973, Old Testament (New International Version), Exodus 34:13

(religion) A mother goddess in ancient Semitic religion, consort of the supreme god El.


convivify

en-verb

convivify (third-person singular simple present convivifies, present participle convivifying, simple past and past participle convivified)

convivifies (present singular third-person)
convivifying (participle present)
convivified (participle past)
convivified (past)

The believer was purified and, united with Christ, convivified with Him, even as, in the Eucharist, the body of the church, was concorporated, unified, sanctified, and offered in sacrifice with Christ its head.

1987, Richard Eugene Sullivan, Thomas F. X. Noble, John J. Contreni, Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages, page 230:

They knew that spiritual consolations were given them because they were convivified with Christ, and raised with Him [Eph 2].

2005, Frederick A. Homann, Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels:

He “convivified” men with Christ, by love.

2006, Ceslaus Spicq, Agape in the New Testament, Volume 2:

(Christianity) To gain (eternal) life as a result of joining one's life to


receptionism

(theology) The Anglican doctrine that, during the Eucharist, the bread and wine remain unchanged after consecration, but that communicants receive the body and blood of Christ by faith when they consume the bread and wine.


host desecration

en-noun

host desecration (countable and uncountable, plural host desecrations)

(Christianity) The sacrilegious mistreatment or malicious use of the host (consecrated bread of the Eucharist).

a form of sacrilege in Christian denominations

Accusation de profanation d’hosties contre les Juifs


peccata clamantia

From Latin peccāta clāmantia, literally "screaming sins".

(Christianity) A group of mortal sins referenced in the Bible as those for which God will take retribution.


Rogation Week

(Christianity) The week in which the Rogation Days occur.


Rogation Day

(Christianity) Any of the three days preceding the festival of Ascension, and during which the Litany was anciently recited in procession.


halfway covenant

halfway covenant (plural halfway covenants)

(Christianity, historical) A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.


Great Earth Mother

Great Earth Mother (plural Great Earth Mothers)

In the East women want to identify themselves with their biological function. And that makes them all woman. Compartmentalisation is our big crime in the West. Normah should have been the Great Earth Mother.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 397:

(paganism, archaeology) Alternative form of Earth Mother


Great Feasts

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, of which three are movable and nine are fixed.

Douze Grandes Fêtes

twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church


Great Hours

A particularly solemn celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church, occurring thrice a year: on the Eve of the Nativity, the Eve of Theophany, and Great Friday.

صَلَاة السَّاعَات الْكَبِيرَة

a particularly solemn celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church


tradcath

Chesterton was Edwardian England's most eloquent advocate for distributism, a Catholic social and economic system that contemporary TradCaths embrace, more (skepticism of big-government socialism) or less (actually distributing anything to anyone).

2019, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, page 115:

Overlapping with groups within the ‘Manosphere’, tradcaths use fundamentalist Christianity as a vehicle to spread and legitimize their gospel of traditional family values […]

2020, Mariel Hope Cooksey, "The Alt-Right and Christianity", thesis submitted to the University of Virginia, page 32

This group is comprised of networks—such as Catholic identifying Groypers and TradCaths […]

2021, David Hoa Khoa Nguyen, Jeremy F. Price, & Duaa H. Alwan, "The Influence of Christian Nationalism on U.S. Public Educators' Speech: Implications from Meriwether vs. Hartop", Laws, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2021

(chiefly Internet slang) A Catholic who seeks to change the practices of Catholicism back to the norms of before the Second Vatican Council.


Samanid

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Samanid dynasty.


Qurayshite

A member of the Qurayshite Umayyad family wanted to claim the poet al-Farazdaq's bride al-Nawār, though the poet thought he could prove that he had a clear claim because he had paid the bride price.

1971, Ignaz Goldziher, edited by S. M. Stern, Muslim Studies, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:

If anyone comes to Muhammad from the Qurayshite camp without the permission of his superiors, he [Muhammad] will send him back; however, if any of those who are with Muhammad comes to the Qurayshite camp, they [the Qurayshites] will not send him back.

2011, Taha Jabir Alalwani, Apostasy in Islam: A Historical and Scriptural Analysis, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), →ISBN, pages 62–63:

He sought to understand the social contexts in which Qurayshite descent was a reasonable condition and those in which it was not.

2014, Syed Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldūn: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 72:

(Islam) part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.


Qurayshite

The fortuitous circumstances that the first man to be elected to this high office was a Qurayshite became, for all except the heterodox, a principle — the caliph had to be a member of the Prophet's tribe, and the Prophet was a Qurayshite.

1995, Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam: The Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim west, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

At this point, having twice delivered up Abū Basīr to the Qurayshites, Muḥammad felt that he had fulfilled his obligation under the treaty.

2002, Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 257:

The Banu-Khuzaa, who had entered into an alliance with Muhammad at Mecca, were for a long time at bloody enmity with the neighboring tribe of Banu-Bakr, who were in alliance with the Qurayshites.

2007, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, translated by Vladimir Wozniuk, Enemies from the East?: V. S. Soloviev on Paganism, Asian Civilizations, and Islam, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 204:


go in unto

en-verb

go in unto (third-person singular simple present goes in unto, present participle going in unto, simple past went in unto, past participle gone in unto)

goes in unto (present singular third-person)
going in unto (participle present)
went in unto (past)
gone in unto (participle past)

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8:

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:13–17:

(obsolete, biblical) Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman).


angelic salutation

en-noun

angelic salutation (plural angelic salutations)


mackerel snapper

mackerel snapper (plural mackerel snappers)

From the Roman Catholic practice of avoiding meat except fish on Fridays.

(dated, derogatory, slang) A Roman Catholic.


dayouth

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic دَيُّوث (dayyūṯ).

unadapted borrowing

(rare, chiefly Islam, non-native speakers' English) A man who is apathetic or permissive with regard to unchaste behaviour by his wife or female relatives.


Donghak

Borrowed from Korean 동학 (donghak, literally “Eastern learning”).

bor+

An academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism, founded in 1860 by Choe Je-u, that arose as a reaction to seohak (西學, "Western learning") and gradually evolved into the religion known as Cheondoism.


dry mass

From dry + mass. In the liturgical sense, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin missa sicca.

calque

Alongside the mass as a means of providing access to the consecrated elements, there is the oddity of the holding of masses without any consecration. These ‘dry masses’ are one of the more shadowy elements of medieval devotion, ill-documented and little considered.

1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration of the elements.


Public Friend

Alternative letter-case form of public Friend


public Friend

Friend denoted a member of the Society of Friends i.e. a Quaker.

Thomas Story [1670?–1742], a public Friend and the Recorder of the city, has also spoken of this calamity [an excessively hot summer in 1699] in his Journal, as being a scourge which carried off from six to eight of the inhabitants daily, [...in total] about 220, of whom about 80 to 90 were of the Society of Friends.

1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, page 599:

George Gray, a public Friend, who had come from Barbadoes early to settle in Pennsylvania, this year returned thither again in the service of the ministry.

1846, Robert Smith, editor, The Friend, volume 1, page 172:

[...] through the wilderness four hundred miles or more, where no public Friend had ever travelled before: the journey was perilous, but the Lord was with him; who may, in his own time, make way for his servants in those desert places.

1857, The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, page 188:

Because Quakers eschewed a professional ministry and formal ordination, their ministers—public Friends—operated with relatively few restrictions in comparison, for example, with conformist or Presbyterian clergy. […] A certificate amounted to a meeting's stamp of approval that the bearer was qualified to be a public Friend. For a public Friend about to embark on "truth's service," the monthly meeting provided a certificate, as the Dublin men did for Anthony ...

1997, Richard L. Greaves, God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 295:

As late as the 1750s the actions of Public Friends were considered to be strange, and their motivations unknowable, even sometimes to fellow Quakers. Repetitious, wide-ranging travel was dangerous and painful in this period.

2014, Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 145:

A Quaker authorized to travel between meetings and communities to preach; a Quaker preacher (in the 18th and 19th centuries).


Alexandrian Orthodox Church

the Alexandrian Orthodox Church (canonical)

One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.


Antiochian Orthodox Church

the Antiochian Orthodox Church (canonical)


Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church

the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church (canonical)


Jerusalemite Orthodox Church

the Jerusalemite Orthodox Church (canonical)


Bulgarian Orthodox Church

the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (canonical)

Gereja Ortodoks Bulgaria

one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches


Church of Cyprus

Calque of Greek Ἐκκλησία τῆς Κύπρου (Ekklēsía tês Kúprou)

Ἐκκλησία τῆς Κύπρου


en-proper noun

Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia


Pentarchy

A model of Church organization historically championed in the Eastern Orthodox Church.


Syriac Orthodox Church

An Oriental Orthodox church branched from the Church of Antioch.

الكنيسة السريانية الأرثوذكسية

Oriental Orthodox church centered in Syria

ܥܺܕܬܳܐ ܣܽܘ̣ܪܝܳܝܬܳܐ ܗܰܝܡܳܢܽܘܬܳܐ ܬܪܺܝܨܰܬ ܫܽܘ̣ܒ̣ܚܳܐ


Georgian Orthodox Church

the Georgian Orthodox Church (canonical)

sakartvelos samocikulo avṭoḳepaluri martlmadidebeli eḳlesia

საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია


Pongal

Transliteration of Tamil பொங்கல் (poṅkal).

translit

A Hindu harvest festival of South India, particularly in the Tamil community, observed at the start of the month Tai (typically around January 14).


pretribulationism

(Christianity) One who believes that all righteous Christians will be transported bodily to Heaven before the Tribulation begins.


posttribulationism

(Christianity) The belief or doctrine that Christians will not be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, before the Tribulation, but rather received or gathered in the air by Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth after the Tribulation.

postribulacionismo

the belief that Christians will not be Raptured until after the Tribulation


midtribulationism

(Christianity) The belief or doctrine that all Christians on earth during the Tribulation will be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, partway through this period, before the worst of its plagues and judgments.

mesotribulacionismo

the belief that Christians will be Raptured partway through the Tribulation


PEV

provincial episcopal visitor
provincial episcopal visitor#English

(Anglicanism) Initialism of provincial episcopal visitor.


act of faith

(religion) An action that demonstrates one's religious faith.


Kabbalic

While the practices of Kabbala were known in Europe from very early times, the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492 resulted in a great influx of Kabbalic lore into the Latin kingdoms.

2002, Frank Swetz, Legacy of the Luoshu:

To assist in the spiritual awakening of his disciples, Jesus taught them a form of Kabbalic Yoga which had been handed down word of mouth from the Essenes, the School of Prophets, and the Levites.

2011, Mark Amaru Pinkham, The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom:

However, even more important than Shalom Ashkenazi, for the increasingly official acceptance of gilgul, was the book, the Sefer ha-Gilgulim (Book of Transmigration), by Hayim Vital (1543–1620), a disciple of the renowned Kabbalic mystic Isaac Luria.

2018, Norman C. McClelland, Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma, page 133:

(Judaism) Concerning the Kabballah; cabalistic.


emaho

(Tibetan Buddhism) exclamation of wonder, joy and amazement


ubiquitism

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.

1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:

This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.

1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:

She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.

2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:

(theology, Christianity) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.


supply priest

(Catholicism, Anglicanism) A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.


Allfather

Allfather, the father of gods and men, the one God, is the one who, like the Hellenic Zeus, orders destiny according to his everlasting laws.

1878, Wilhelm Zimmermann, A Popular History of Germany:


Allfather

We shall keep our God, but he will be an Allfather, and not an all-but-All-tormentor.

1882, John Torrey Morse (Jr.), Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert Percival Porter, The International Review - Volume 12, page 574:

The suggestion of a belief in an Allfather has however been challenged with much force by Mr. Hartland,” but has been adopted by Mrs. Parker in her work on the Euahlayi tribe.

1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London:

The Indo-European belief in an 'Allfather' may have inspired the Christian concept of 'Our Father in Heaven'.

1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, page 7:


allegorism

en-noun

allegorism (usually uncountable, plural allegorisms)

He goes so far as to affirm that in Scripture 'all has a spiritual meaning, but not everything has a literal meaning' (De princ. 2,3,5). We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.

2000, Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis Vol 2: The Four Senses Of Scripture, page 277:

The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy.

2007, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, Encyclopaedia Judaica - Volume 3, page 645:

(theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.


myroblyte

From Byzantine Greek μυροβλύτης (muroblútēs, “myron-gushing”), from the ancient μῠ́ρ(ον) (múron) + -ο- (infix) + the Hellenistic verb βλύ(ζω) (blúzō) + -της (-tēs).

der

The final scene on the cope shows both Catherine's martyrdom and two angels carrying her body to Mt. Sinai, which would remind viewers that Catherine was a myroblyte; [...]

2003, Wendy R. Larson, “Narrative Threads: the Pienza Cope's Embroidered Vitae and Their Ritual Setting”, in Studies in Iconography, volume 24:

This miracle signals that she has become a myroblyte, a healing saint.

2015, Haruko Nawata Ward, “Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria”, in Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, Brill:

A saint whose relics or place of burial produce or are said to have produced the Oil of Saints ("an aromatic liquid with healing properties" or "holy water (very much like myrrh)") or the odour of sanctity.

мироточи́в

saint whose relics or place of burial produce or are said to have produced the Oil of Saints or the odour of sanctity


Vejovis

From Latin Vējovis, a later spelling of Vēiovis, from Old Latin Vēdiovis, from vē + Diovis from Proto-Italic *djous, *djowes, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.

(Roman mythology) an ancient Italic Roman deity of Etruscan origin considered to be an underworld counterpart of Jupiter; literally “Little Jupiter”, “Anti-Jove”


profession of faith

en-noun

profession of faith (plural professions of faith)

(religion) A creed; a (typically formulaic) statement of the beliefs of one's religion, often recited during public prayers or liturgies.

(religion, Christianity, specifically) A formulaic declaration asserting the orthodoxy of one's beliefs, usually made at baptism, entry into a particular Church, or upon the acceptance of an ecclesial office, and typically including the recitation of a creed.

profession de foi

formulaic declaration asserting one's orthodoxy


egg rolling

A traditional Easter game in which decorated eggs "race" by being rolled downhill or pushed along the ground.


pashkevil

(Judaism) A poster put up in an Orthodox Jewish community, especially a Haredi enclave, to advise on correct behaviour.


Lut

Borrowed from Arabic لُوط (lūṭ), ultimately from Hebrew לוֹט (lot). Doublet of Lot.

And to Lut, too, We gave Judgment and Knowledge, and We saved him from the town which practised abominations: truly they were a people given to Evil, a rebellious people.

1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, transl., The Holy Qur'an, 21:74:

The Prophet Lut, the Prophet Ibrahim's nephew, lived in the city of Sodom located on the western shore of the Dead Sea.

2010, Mary Saad Assel, 25 Icons of Peace in the Qur'an: Lessons of Harmony, New York: iUniverse, page 56:


Gokuraku

(Buddhism) The abode of Amitabha Buddha; heaven, paradise.


Universal Friends

Before the Universal Friends left New England, they had, according to their means, contributed and pledged themselves to contribute to a joint fund for the purchase of land, […]

1873, Stafford Canning Cleveland, History and Directory of Yates County, page 56:

A typewritten manuscript, […] compiled by the Rev. Willoughby Newton, traces the history of the Universal Friends' meetinghouse in New Milford.

1965 (edition: 2009), Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., Pioneer Prophetess, page 222

At the time of the Revolution itself, however, the new sects that were both the most coherent and the most fully imbued with their own sense of millennial mission were the Shakers and the Universal Friends.

1988, Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, page 88:

Despite their obvious similarities (both, for instance, used dreams and visions as vehicles of prophetic expression, and both incorporated millennial themes in their soteriology), the Shakers and the Universal Friends offered dramatically different models of spiritual authority […]

1996, Susan Juster, Lisa MacFarlane, A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism, page 34:

Among the signatures attached to the document was that of its author, James Parker. Joining his name are those of several other Universal Friends who had turned against the prophet […]

2015, Paul B. Moyer, The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America, Cornell University Press, page 169

(historical) An American Quaker (Christian) sect (from the 1770s to 1860s), the "Society of Universal Friends", which followed the teachings of the Public Universal Friend.


Free Quaker

The flags used by the army were made by a "Free Quaker woman," who was on this account disowned by the meeting of which she was a member. Many other services were openly rendered by Friends […]

1896, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, page 836:

We met no one on the way save a farmer or two, and here, being near to the Schuylkill, my old master farrier took leave of me at the farm of Edward Masters, which lay in our way, and commended me to the care of this good Free Quaker.

1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington, page 290:

In 1782 the Philadelphia Free Quakers, who had been conducting their meetings in private residences to that time, purchased a lot […] for the construction of a Free Quaker meetinghouse.

1990, William C. Kashatus, Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 131:

Philadelphia, he said, had thirty-four places of worship representing eighteen religious sects: three Swedish churches, three Quaker, one Free Quaker, three Episcopal, one Baptist, two Presbyterian, four Catholic, two German Lutheran, […]

2001, Joyce Oldham Appleby, INHERITING THE REVOLUTION, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 201:

Born in 1736, Wetherill began his career in Philadelphia as a carpenter. Although he was also a Quaker preacher, he actively supported the Revolution and was one of the leaders of the pro-Revolutionary Free Quaker movement.

2010, Lawrence A. Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry, JHU Press, →ISBN:

A splinter group of Friends, the Free Quakers, supported the patriot cause, […]

2018, Mitchell K. Hall, Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements [2 volumes], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 36:

(historical) A member of a now largely defunct American Quaker (Christian) sect which did not adhere to the Peace Testimony and therefore supported or engaged in military action during the American Revolutionary War.


Quakerist

From his second year at Haverford Arishima began to read Quakerist classics like the Journal of George Fox (1694) and works written about Quakerism like […] The Life of William Penn (1882).

1981, Harold Bolitho, Alan Rix, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, A Northern prospect: Australian papers on Japan

DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States.

1920, P. Austin Nuttall, J. Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopedia, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:

WASPS have a great churchgoing tradition, belonging as they do, to Baptists, Methodist, Quakerist, or even Calvinist or Lutheran congregations, and there is nothing like a maiden trained in complete submission to the will of her master.

Yet neither Pennsylvania's Quakerist tendencies toward gender equality nor Connecticut's legacy of radical Protestantism prevented these two colonies from sacrificing a widow's rights to commercial considerations.

1997, Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, Hill and Wang, →ISBN:

Jones does attempt to differentiate Platonic from “New Testament” mysticism, in keeping with his Quakerist Protestantism, but for all that he is compelled to acknowledge that Platonism is the headwaters of all European mysticism.

2017, Arthur Versluis, Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 38:


decanate

From Medieval Latin decānātus, from Latin decānus. Equivalent to Latin decānus + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it). Compare dean.

af

These parishes are divided into 80 decanates or chapters. In each decanate there are from ten to eighteen parishes. At the head of each decanate stands the dean,

1844, Rev. F.C. Ewald, “Bavaria”, in The Missionary Chronicle, page 18:

(Anglicanism) A group of parishes over which a dean presides; a deanery.


Wilkinsonian

She began to preach, announcing herself as "the Publick Universal Friend," and soon [...succeeded] in organizing groups of Wilkinsonian celibates at New Milford, Conn., and at East Greenwich and South Kingston, R.I.

1939, Henry Louis Mencken, [New] American Mercury, page 293:

J. Hagadorn Wells, who was born in Kingston (Little Rest) in 1817, recalled in his reminiscences, recorded in 1897: "[…] more than once I joined a raiding party of young fellows, to ransack the empty apartments, scare up the ghosts of generations of rural gentry and Wilkinsonian saints, dead; but never omitting a less romantic visit to the pear trees."

2009, Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 208:

Moreover, not every resident of Jerusalem was a devoted Universal Friend; […] Even so, Wilkinson appeared to be making inroads. Historians have missed this Wilkinsonian renaissance, perhaps because they have been influenced by the repeated insistence of anti-Wilkinsonians that her influence was in decline […]

2017, Adam Jortner, Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN:

Pertaining to the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, or to the Society of Universal Friends.


Wilkinsonian

The Wilkinsonians are equally to the present point. They lived, for the most part, not more than twenty- five miles from Manchester, New York, the town in which Mormonism was first preached; […]

1994, Ruth Kauffman, Reginald Wright Kauffman, The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 12:

Yet Wilkinsonians (or the Universal Friends, as they dubbed themselves), despite their obscurity, provide a crucial case study. The prophetic and supernatural claims of the Wilkinsonians preceded all their contemporaries, but […]

A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends.


Eucharistize

en-verb

Eucharistize (third-person singular simple present Eucharistizes, present participle Eucharistizing, simple past and past participle Eucharistized)

Eucharistizes (present singular third-person)
Eucharistizing (participle present)
Eucharistized (participle past)
Eucharistized (past)

And are not the Blessings of God the Father conveyed by the Holy Ghost? To Eucharistize or Bless the Elements is, therefore, in other words, to pray for the Descent of the Holy Ghost.

1917, William John Sparrow-Simpson, The Prayer of Consecration, page 74:

The effect of this consecration is to Eucharistize — that is, convert, refashion, transmute — the physical reality of bread and wine into that sacred reality which is the glorified God-Man.

1997, Richard Foley, Mary and the Eucharist, page 44:

The affinities between Guroian and Cavanaugh are, perhaps, best summed up in Cavanaugh's declaration that the “point is not to politicize the Eucharist, but to 'Eucharistize' the world.”

2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political:

(transitive) To bless or consecrate in memory of Christ; To prepare as the Eucharist.


Branch Sunday

(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Synonym of Palm Sunday


Fast Sunday

(Christianity) A Sunday set aside by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for fasting by its members, and on which a testimony meeting is held by local congregations.


agunah

en-noun

agunah (plural agunahs or agunot or agunoth)

agunahs (plural)
agunot (plural)
agunoth (plural)

Borrowed from Hebrew עגונה (“chained woman”).

A woman may become an agunah either through her husband's accidental disappearance or through his willful desertion, although accidental disappearance constitutes the main source of difficulty.

1986, Menachem M. Brayer, The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature, page 187:

The problem of the agunah, the woman (or man) who is chained to a marriage and unable to free herself from this marriage, is not a new one.

2001, Michael J. Broyde, Marriage, Divorce, and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law:

Our Master could see the agony of his little relative who was not yet fifteen and was already an agunah. He put aside all his civic affairs and obligations and even his regular lectures on Maimonides and Alfasi and began to look into the matter of freeing this agunah.

2014, S. Y. Agnon, The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella, pages 10–11:

A Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage from which she cannot escape, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.


Druzism

A study of Druzism is especially valuable and interesting not only because its adherents, unlike the adherents of the other sects, have shown remarkable vitality and thrust themselves repeatedly upon the attention of the world […]

1928, Philip Khuri Hitti, The Origins of the Druze People and Religion:


Feast of the Circumcision of Christ

Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (plural Feasts of the Circumcision of Christ)

Feasts of the Circumcision of Christ (plural)

(Christianity) A celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Besnijdenis van de Heer

a celebration of the circumcision of Jesus


libationer

Harming other people or bullying them because the libationer is in a position of power or has connexions with people in power is also proscribed (60, 92).

1995, Taoist Resources - Volume 6, Issue 2, page 13:

Its primary office, that of the "libationer" (chi-chiu), was open to women and men alike, though scholars today have begun to question whether that office was actually clerical or simply a term for lay leaders.

2004, Russell Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition, page 135:

At that time, accession to the office of libationer already involved the conferral of sacred texts.

2013, Fabrizio Pregadio, The Encyclopedia of Taoism: 2-volume set, page 550:

A Taoist religious office analogous to that of parish priest.


high place

[…] Jehoſaphat took avvay the high places, and in the third year of his reign ſent ſome of his Princes, and of the Prieſts and Levites, to teach in the cities of Judah: […]

a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Introduction Concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), page 3:


Zoar

Mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 19:22, 23, and 30 as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death, when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. From Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, “insignificance, smallness”). Was present in Old English as Sægor.
The settlement in Labrador was founded by Moravian missionaries. Compare Hebron, Hopedale, Nain and Ramah.

m+

And Lot lifted vp his eyes, and beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where before the Lord destroyed Sodome and Gomorah, euen as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou commest vnto Zoar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 13:10:

(biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.


Campbellian

en-adj

Campbellian (comparative more Campbellian, superlative most Campbellian)

more Campbellian (comparative)
most Campbellian (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the ministers Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, or the associated Campbellite movement.


Hanbali

Hanbali (comparative more Hanbali, superlative most Hanbali)

more Hanbali (comparative)
most Hanbali (superlative)

From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -i.

(Islam) Pertaining to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.


Hanbali

(Islam) Someone who adheres to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.


Seeker

(historical, Christianity) A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.


Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

A Roman Catholic feast day celebrated on October 7.


dharma talk

I'd never given a dharma talk before, much less in the local Lao dialect, to hundreds of people. I just got up there, and he said, "Tell them what you know of the dharma, go to it."

2011, Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are:

It is important to note that a dharma talk is not a lecture, although it has a didactic purpose. Such a talk is given usually as an accompaniment to a period of meditation.

2014 February 19, Charles R. Strain, The Prophet and the Boddhisattva: Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Ethics of Peace and Justice, Wipf and Stock Publishers:

(Buddhism) A public discourse by a Buddhist teacher, similar to a sermon or homily, and distinguished from a lecture by being shorter and less formal.


odour of sanctity

Perhaps, too, the opinion that the relics of the holy dead were distinguished by a peculiar fragrance, may have arisen from embalmed bodies: at first, it might honestly have obtained among the Clergy; but when they saw how willingly it was received by the people, whenever a new mine of relics was opened, care was taken that the odour of sanctity should not be wanting.

1824, Robert Southey, “View of the Papal System”, in The Book of the Church. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 291:

It was then put into a large basket and carried down to the harbour, where a Venetian ship was waiting. By this time the odour of sanctity that issued from the body was becoming so strong that, in the words of one chronicler, ‘If all the spices of the world had been gathered together in Alexandria, they could not have so perfumed the city.’

2003, John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

During the Middle Ages a sweet smell came to be expected of holy corpses, " and if the corpse of a servant of God did not emit 'the odour of sanctity,' the veneration might stop as quickly as it had begun.

2004, Frank Graziano, Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

These 'immortals' were either resurrected or their bodies regrew, or the corpse did not go cold and emitted a 'pleasant' odour of sanctity.

2005, John J. Jørgensen, Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And Biography in Early Ch’an, BRILL, →ISBN, page 241:

(chiefly Christianity, especially Middle Ages) A sweet smell, usually likened to flowers, said to be emitted by the corpses, or even the living bodies, of saints.

odeur de sainteté

sweet smell emitted by corpses of saints


Radonitsa

From Russian Ра́доница (Rádonica), literally "Day of Rejoicing". See also Russian рад (rad, “joyful”).

In the Russian Orthodox Church, a commemoration of the departed observed on the second Tuesday or second Monday of Pascha (Easter).


VHP

Vishwa Hindu Parishad
w:Vishwa Hindu Parishad

(Indian politics, Hindutva) Initialism of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Hindu nationalist organization.


Book of Life

From Middle English bok of lyfe, boke of lyfe. Compare Old English līflīċ bōc (“Book of Life”).

(Christianity, Judaism) The book in which God is said to record the name of every person who is destined for heaven or the world to come.


tebam

(Judaism, architecture) A dais or rostrum for the reader in a synagogue.


Cytherea

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

(Greek mythology) The goddess Aphrodite.


Swedistan

No, more likely the cowardly Swedes will move away and the MooSlimes will rename it Swedistan. / Swedistan - Future Capital of Eurabia.

2006 June 3, Anonymous Infidel - Scares away the primitives with fire, “Re: OFFICIAL SWEDEN SAYS MUSLIM RAPES, ETC. = OK”, in soc.culture.australian (Usenet):

The Islamic Country of Swedistan.

2016 January 6, MuahMan, “Re: Multiple accounts - OS X vs. Windows”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):

[“]Swedistan has failed. The ethnic Swedes will soon become a minority. I give it maybe ten years. These new Swedes will have the right to vote and that will be the end of Sweden. In my opinion Sweden is no longer a country I recognize.[”]

2019, Cathrine Thorleifsson, Nationalist Responses to the Crises in Europe: Old and New Hatreds (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations), Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page unknown:

The hubris of “progressive” politics, and its relentless war against patriarchy, provide a pointed reminder that cultural evolution is 100 percent reversible, as Sweden's violent descent into “Swedistan” amply testifies. Today's “progressive” social democracy is tomorrow's “Stone Age” Islamic theocracy.

2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, →ISBN, page 390:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Sweden, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.


Shivini

From Urartian 𒀭𒅆𒄿𒌑𒄿𒉌 (ᵈši-i-u₂-i-ni /Šiuini/).


ESV

English Standard Version
w:English Standard Version

(biblical) Initialism of English Standard Version.


Daggial

(Islam, obsolete) Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, an evil figure in Islamic eschatology.


nightmarcher

From night + marcher. Calque of Hawaiian huakaʻi pō.

... happening in, will not become confused and angry in his efforts to get out. Beds should not be placed directly opposite doorways. One keeps indoors when the Nightmarchers are abroad. On certain nights these progressions of ghosts can […]

1988, John Donald Kingsley, The Antioch Review:

The tail of that sinuous line of nightmarchers seemed very horrible, and as I saw them wriggling into a venerable tomb they seemed more horrible still. Then I noticed that the tomb's floor had an aperture down which the throng was sliding, and ...

1997, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Crawling Chaos: Selected Pulp Fiction:

[…] understood the vision of nightmarchers described by the Chinese man. Sometimes the phantom marchers will be seen stopping at the house of a dying person, to prepare to escort them into the afterlife. In this case, the nightmarchers were […]

1999, Glen Grant, Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawai'I, Mutual Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 122:

"And he hide; da buggah wen hide; if you discovered by a nightmarcher, they take you, boy. So, folks, always watch da road. Go where it's safe." The haole couple next to me nervously chuckled. An understated fright.

2002, Rona Tamiko Halualani, In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 166:

Something from Irene's journals, about what to do if you happen across a nightmarcher on a moon-filled night.

2018, J. Lincoln Fenn, The Nightmarchers, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places.


Thorough

(Christianity, historical) A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to establish absolute monarchy in England, involving the appointment of Arminian clergy.


Satyanarayana

From Sanskrit सत्यनारायण (satyanārāyaṇa); from सत्य (satya) + नारायण (nārāyaṇa).


Nagarjuna

(Buddhism) Second century philosopher credited with founding a school of Buddhism.


Revati

(Hinduism) Daughter of King Kakudmi and consort of Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna.


onomatodox

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to, supporting or advocating onomatodoxy.


Taboric

We could recite here account after account of these Ultimate experiences, […] the visions of God as the divine Taboric Glory, God of light.

2008, April D. DeConick, “Mysticism and the Gospel of Thomas”, in Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung – Rezeption – Theologie:

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Comparable or pertaining to the Transfiguration of Jesus, traditionally believed to have taken place at Mount Tabor.


onomatodoxy

Borrowed from Russian ономатодо́ксия (onomatodóksija), from Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + δόξα (dóxa, “glory”), meaning “name-glorification”. Compare Russian имясла́вие (imjaslávije).

ономатодо́ксия

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine that the name of God is God himself.


Barlaam

Unknown. The immediate source is Medieval Latin Barlaam, borrowed from Byzantine Greek Βαρλαάμ (Barlaám) in the Byzantine Life of Barlaam and Josaphat (probably 11th c.), itself likely borrowed from Georgian ბალაჰვარ (balahvar). First attested c. 8th century as Arabic بِلَوْهَر (bilawhar), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit भगवान् (bhagavān, “God”) or from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita, “priest”) via an unattested Middle Persian form.

(Christianity) A legendary saint in the tale of Barlaam and Josaphat.


Barlaamite

[…] but in the next age the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.

1788, Edward Gibbon, “Civil Wars and the Ruin of the Greek Empire. Part II”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Supporting or pertaining to the theologian Barlaam of Seminara, especially his opposition to Hesychasm.


Barlaamite

At the End of the Age, arose the Question of Thaboretick Light, betwixt the Barlaamites and Palamites; which is agitated with great Heat in Synods, with Anathema's and biting Libels; as if they were striving for the chief Articles of Faith, and as if the whole of Religion consisted in such Trifles.

1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church […], page 121:

I have been accused repeatedly over the past eight hours of being a Barlaamite.

2012 October 15, Joseph Suaiden, “Your Editor Accused of Heresy on the “Orthodox-Tradition” Yahoo Group”, in NFTU:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An advocate of Barlaamite views, an opponent of Hesychasm.


onomatoclast

From onomato- (back-formation from onomatodoxy) + -clast, by analogy with iconoclast, from Byzantine Greek κλάω (kláō, “to break”).

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[…] they at first were unable to present to the onomatoclasts the teaching concerning the divinity of the Name of God that they knew through their experience of prayer, but were not always able to articulate in words.

2001, Tatiana Senina, “The Divine Name Controversy”, in History, Bible, Science:

According to the self-proclaimed apologists of imjaslavie the onomatoclasts, in rejecting the divinity of the revealed names and God's undivided presence therein, sided with Palamas's opponent Barlaam of Calabria, who had denied the full divinity of God's energies and their inseparability from His essence.

2014, Lara Sels, “Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium and Onomatodoxy in Russian Theology”, in Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium III: An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies, page 665:

An onomatoclast sees a face as a mere mask, perceives an icon as piece of wood and hears a name as an empty sound.

2015, Paweł Rojek, “Onomatodoxy and the Problem of Constitution: Florensky on Scientific and Manifest Images of the World”, in Faith and Reason in Russian Thought, page 107:

(rare, Eastern Orthodoxy, derogatory) An opponent of onomatodoxy.


Mazdaic

(dated) relating to or characteristic of Mazdaism; Zoroastrian


religious freedom

en-noun

religious freedom (usually uncountable, plural religious freedoms)

In Shijing town in Xi’an’s Huyi district, authorities tore down a Catholic church at the end of December, sparking a protest by around 300 church followers who gathered later in front of district government offices with banners calling for the right to religious freedom, local sources said.

2018 January 8, Qiao Long, Richard Finney, “Chinese Authorities Demolish One Church, Close Another, in December”, in Chen Ping, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2018-01-09:

In Drago county, images from late last year of authorities demolishing a 30-meter (100-foot) tall Buddha statue and a monastery school were leaked to the Tibetan government-in-exile. The demolitions were first reported by Radio Free Asia, a U.S.-funded news agency, and confirmed by AP and others using satellite imagery.
Jampa of the Garze county foreign affairs office said he had not heard of the demolitions, and denied any restrictions on faith. Religious freedoms are protected by the Chinese constitution, he said, “like in America.”

2022 February 16, Dake Kang, Sam McNeil, “This time, Tibet stands silent as Olympics return to China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-02-16:

The principle that individuals or communities have the right to practice their religion without fear of state or other hindrance, interference, or persecution.


Mahavir

From Sanskrit महावीर (mahāvīra, “a great hero”).


Padmavati

(Hinduism) Hindu goddess and consort of Sri Venkateswara of Tirupati.


Jesus movement

But at a very early stage in the Jesus movement the tendency towards an opening up of Judaism became evident – in all three forms of religious expression.

1999, Gerd Theissen, translated by John Bowden, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion, page 165:

But the divinity of Jesus is as historically vexing as it is theologically crucial. Any assertion about this doctrine's theological centrality has a provocative, historical correlate: the early Jesus movement (first?) became Christianity when regular, public and sanctioned devotion was offered to Jesus alongside of, and as, the monos theos of Judaism.

1999, Carey C. Newman, “From (Wright's) Jesus to (the Church's) Christ: Can We Get There from Here?”, in Jesus and the Restoration of Israel, pages 281–82:

The battle of the Jesus movement to evolve from a small cult to a universal faith that redefined and thus transformed Roman society so that it could achieve political power within it was not fought upon the lines with which we are familiar in post-Enlightenment Europe.

2009, Allen Brent, A Political History of Early Christianity, page 130:

(history) Christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.


Vaidyanatha

From Sanskrit वैद्यनाथ (vaidyanātha, “lord of physicians”).

(Hinduism) One of the jyotirlinga, a form of Siva in India.


Witchblr

But what ties Witchblr and the Cult of Kek together, despite their diametrically opposed viewpoints, is that each is dissatisfied with the real world and their inability to change those circumstances, and thus each has created its own sheltering cosmology.

2018 April 3, Emma Grey Ellis, “Witches, Frog-Gods, and the Deepening Schism of Internet Religions”, in Wired:

Witchblr is a mixture of fashion and wellness trends, spiritual beliefs and feminist politics.

2018 November, Jen Tombs, “Be Witched”, in Study Breaks, volume 30, number 8, page 19:

Granted, most millennial denizens of “Witchblr” are more likely to cleanse their homes with sage, say, or practice mindfulness meditation than to cast a curse on Republican lawmakers.

2019 June 7, Tara Isabella Burton, “The Rise of Progressive Occultism”, in The American Interest, volume 15, number 1:

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


Ammit

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the Devourer of the Dead.

أمت

Egyptian funerary deity, the Devourer of the Dead


Anhur

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian war god


Turco-Albanian

Translation of Greek derogatory term Τουρκαλβανός (Tourkalvanós, “Turco-Albanian”);
From Turco + Albanian.

(derogatory) offensive term for (muslim) Albanian


eucology

en-noun

eucology (usually uncountable, plural eucologies)

From Ancient Greek εὐχή (eukhḗ, “prayer”) + -logy.

suffix

(religion, countable) A book of prayers and benedictions.


Anput

From Egyptian jnpwt as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧnput).

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Anubis


Satis

(Egyptian mythology) A war, hunting, and fertility goddess


Apep

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Apophis


Great Church

Celsus
Contra Celsum
Great Church
Origen

Calque of Koine Greek μεγάλη ἐκκλησία (megálē ekklēsía). In sense of “orthodox Christian church”, cf. Celsus (2nd century) describing mainstream Christian believers, quoted in Origen, Contra Celsum, 5.59: “Σαφῶς γε τῶν ἀπὸ μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας τοῦτο ὁμολογούντων […] ” (“Certainly, the members of the Great Church agree […] ”).

calque

μεγάλη ἐκκλησία

lang

Such was the view held within the Great Church of the third and fourth centuries, from which all our existing forms of Christianity can trace their descent.

1981, Christopher Butler, The Theology of Vatican II, revised edition, page 104:

Round about AD 600 there was a main body of Christians constituting the Great Church, which later divided into the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches of today; but there were also important bodies of Christians who had been expelled from the Great Church as heretics, notably those often known as the Monophysites (Jacobites and Copts) and the Nestorians.

1991, William Montgomery Watt, Muslim–Christian Encounters: Perceptions and Misperceptions, page 1:

Although Chalcedon seemed to offer the possibility of their reconciliation with the Great Church, this hope was not fulfilled.

1995 [1989], Aloys Grillmeier, Theresia Hainthaler, translated by John Cawte and Pauline Allen, Christ in Christian Tradition, volume 2/2, page 1:

(historical) The orthodox Christian church of antiquity, after 380 C.E. the established church of the Roman Empire, especially as distinct from smaller Christian movements or heresies.

1968, Steven Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence:

Central Europe and eastern Europe (Muscovy/Russia) came under the jurisdiction of the so-called Great Church, or Patriarchate of Constantinople (the New Rome)

2002, Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe, revised edition, page 1907:

The Great Church managed to regain its essentially ecumenical character that was challenged in the Middle Ages by the ecclesiastical independence of Ohrid, Peć and Tărnovo.

2010, Eleonora Naxidou, “The Transition from Ecumenical Tradition to a Multinational Perspective: The Historical Evolution of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire”, in Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe Between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699–1829, page 149:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.


Bes

The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.

2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 121:

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.


Luke-Acts

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles

The composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.


Roman Canon

(Roman Catholicism) The Canon of the Mass, the oldest anaphora of the Roman rite of the Mass.


opus operantis

(religion) The spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite that is ascribed chiefly or exclusively to the disposition of the recipient.


Novus Ordo

/ˈnɒ.vəs ˈɔːdəʊ/

/ˈnəʊ.vəs ˈɔːdəʊ/

Ellipsis of Ecclesiastical Latin Novus Ordō Missae (“New Order of the Mass”).

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A Catholic may consider the Novus Ordo banal, but he may not proclaim that the new rite is invalid.

2004, Michael Daniel, “What Constitutes a Valid Consecration?”, in CatholicCulture.org:

[…] the material in the interview indicated to me that he’s celebrating a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin.

2006, The Catholic World Report, volume 16:

I’ve heard many make the case that the Novus Ordo actually more closely resembles the Mass of the first 1000 years of Church history than the recent practice of the Tridentine (Latin) Masses. Surely Jesus didn’t speak Latin at the Last Supper. But many others point out that what has become of the Novus Ordo Mass was not what was originally intended either.

2019, Matthew Warner, “Which is Better: Latin Mass or Novus Ordo?”, in National Catholic Register:

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite of the Mass established in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI, usually celebrated in a vernacular language.


Nefertem

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower


Bokononism

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle in 1963. Named after the religion's alleged founder, Bokonon + -ism.

[>We show singles exactly how to find their True Soulmate! And we show Couples how to determine if they have found their True Soulmate!]
How tough can it be to know once you've found the right one? As long as you're not somewhere that has made Bokononism illegal, couldn't you just put your feet together?

1997 March 13, the tree by the river, “Re: Still looking for your Soulmate? We can help!”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

Because there isn't any, and I can't think of any possible reason that there need be any. Thus I have assumed that there is no god. The difference is that since there *can be* no evidence of it, I must admit that I can not really know the answer. In my case, that is grounds for agnosticism (or Bokononism really). In the case of many others, faith takes over.

2000 May 8, m. brazeau, “Re: help me refute a theist”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Whatever wackadoodle philosophy you might be embracing today – frutarianism or Bokononism – is cool as long as it doesn’t hurt those around you, right? ¶ Refusing to immunize puts the rest of us at risk. And unless there is sound science and the guidance of a good doctor, it’s a pretty bogus way to hedge a bet in that game of parenting roulette.

2015 January 26, Petula Dvorak, “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk”, in The Washington Post:

(fiction, religion) In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.


bokono

(religion) An exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.


Mucker

(historical, religion) A follower of the religious teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1770–1826) and Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861).


Church of the East

From Classical Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ (ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā), so called as it predominated to the east of the border of the Christian Roman Empire. Used as a proper noun in English from c. 1890s.

der

ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā

Ancient Church of the East
Ancient Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East
Assyrian Church of the East

Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church

Any of the modern successors of that church following its schisms since the 16th century, in particular the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, and Chaldean Catholic Church, or all of these considered together.

景教

church originally of Persia — see also Nestorianism


Gelasian dyarchy

Father Murray is concerned to restate the Gelasian dyarchy in democratic terms.

1953, Religion in Life, volume 23, page 178:

Between secularists and anticlericals who would subject the Church to the state or entirely separate the institutions, and fanatical medievalists and curialists who would, against all reasonable hope, cling to their own inaccurate versions of theocracy, the pope steered a middle course that recalled the Gelasian dyarchy.

1962, Newman C. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History, volume 2, page 161:

Determining the popes’ view of the relationship between church and state was their interpretation of “the Gelasian dyarchy,” the ancient papal teaching that “this world is ruled by two powers.”

2004, Robert Krieg, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 18:

(Roman Catholicism, politics) The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.


Petrinity

Acts certainly follows the fortunes of Paul after Peter's release and departure; and the later New Testament shows no marked Petrinity.

1926, The New American Church Monthly, volume 19, page 228:

He says that Peter honoured (decoravit) Alexandria by sending his disciple Mark to be bishop there; he strengthened (firmavit) Antioch by occupying the see himself there for seven years; but he exalted (sublimavit) Rome where he spent his later days and died. The clear implication is that Rome remains pre-eminent even in Petrinity.

1980, Jeffrey Richards, Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great, →ISBN, page 65:

The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.

2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform”, in A Companion to the Medieval Papacy, →ISBN, page 58:

(Christianity, rare) The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.


Deucalion

From Ancient Greek Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn).

(Greek mythology) The son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.


Somascan

a member of a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Italy in the 16th century by St. Jerome Emiliani called the Somaschi Fathers


Camillian

From Camillus + -ian, from the order’s founder, Camillus de Lellis.

a member of the Camillians, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1582 by St. Camillus de Lellis in Italy


Canossian

a member of one of the religious orders that traces its origin to St. Magdalene of Canossa


two swords

Allegorical interpretation of Luke 22:38, “Behold, here are two swords”.

The most clear-cut definition of the Pope's possession of the two swords was given in Boniface VIII’s famous bull Unam Sanctam, which stressed the unity of Christendom under its single head.

1952, C. W. Previté-Orton, The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, page 943:

[…] the dispute between the two swords cut deep into the countryside in ways that the authors of ecclesiastical and revolutionary policy neither intended nor anticipated.

2004, Matthew Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–29, →ISBN, page 3:

In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.

2009, Peter Lodberg, Religion, Politics, and Law, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly history, Roman Catholicism) Spiritual and temporal power, church and state.


Legionary

a member of the Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute


Wilkinsonianism

(rare) The religious beliefs and practices of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, and of the Society of Universal Friends.


formal heresy

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis fōrmālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) The teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.


Neo-Confucian

en-adj

Neo-Confucian (comparative more Neo-Confucian, superlative most Neo-Confucian)

more Neo-Confucian (comparative)
most Neo-Confucian (superlative)


sefirah

From Hebrew סְפִירָה (s'firá, “sefirah”, literally “counting, enumeration”), plural סְפִירוֹת (s'firót).

derived

Other nights, depending on how swanky the function and fashionable the gown, there might also be observed, tattooed in exquisite symmetry below Madame Eskimoff's bared nape, the Kabbalist Tree of Life, with the names of the Sephiroth spelled out in Hebrew, which had brought her more than enough of that uniquely snot-nosed British anti-Semitism

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256:

The kabbalists also called the first sefirah, the dark flame that started the revelatory/creative process, "Nothing", because it did not correspond to any reality that we could conceive.

2007, Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography, Atlantic, published 2008, page 249:

(Kabbalah) Each of the ten attributes that God created, through which he can project himself to the universe and man.

counting of the Omer
counting of the Omer

(Judaism) The counting of the Omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.


Young Earth creationist

en-noun

Young Earth creationist (plural Young Earth creationists)

Young Earth creationism
Young Earth creationism


Camaldolese

From Italian camaldolese, from Camaldoli + -ese. The order was founded by Sain Romuald around 1012 in Camaldoli, Tuscany, Italy.

(Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.


Camaldolese

(Roman Catholicism) A monk or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.

camaldolese

mon or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order


Vaticanize

en-verb

Vaticanize (third-person singular simple present Vaticanizes, present participle Vaticanizing, simple past and past participle Vaticanized)

Vaticanizes (present singular third-person)
Vaticanizing (participle present)
Vaticanized (participle past)
Vaticanized (past)

But we have here no attempt to Vaticanize the Celtic Church.

1912, Princeton Theological Review, volume 10, page 148:

(transitive, religion) To make to conform to the religious principles and practices of the Vatican.


flooddidit

From Flood + did + it, modelled after goddidit.

(slang) A sarcastic assertion that something that has not been satisfactorily explained by science is therefore evidence of the Biblical Flood as described in the book of Genesis.


polydemonism

(religion) The existence of multiple demons; the worship of these demons


Christmas and Easter Christian

en-noun

Christmas and Easter Christian (plural Christmas and Easter Christians)

Christmas and Easter Christians (plural)

A Christian who does not frequently attend church, attending only on the major holidays of Christmas and Easter.


Chreaster

Blend of Christmas + Easter, possibly influenced by the agent noun suffix -er.

“Well, I was confirmed a Methodist when I was 12, but since then I've basically been a Chreaster.”
“A what?” Trevor looked confused.
“A Chreaster. You know, I only go at Christmas and Easter. I'm a Chreaster.”
“Oh!” Trevor laughed. “I had no idea what you were talking about.”

2009, Ethan Fowler, Mardene Fowler, Brushed Back: The Story of Trevor Bullock, Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →ISBN, pages 94–95:


come out of the broom closet

en-verb

come out of the broom closet (third-person singular simple present comes out of the broom closet, present participle coming out of the broom closet, simple past and past participle come out of the broom closet)

comes out of the broom closet (present singular third-person)
coming out of the broom closet (participle present)
come out of the broom closet (participle past)
come out of the broom closet (past)

Coined by analogy with come out of the closet, with the proverbial hiding place being changed to a broom closet, a jocular reference to stereotype of witches riding brooms.

Second, despite constitutional guarantees of religions freedom and practice, and despite the rhetoric of tolerance with which religion in American society is cloaked, "coming out of the broom closet" and declaring oneself Wiccan or Witch remains a very risky act for many people, precisely because of the different cultures in which they reside.

2005, Douglas E. Cowan, Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet, page 36:

In 1986, a federal appeals court ruled that Wicca is a legal religion. That means that the practice of Wicca is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ever since the ruling, more and more Wiccans have "come out of the broom closet."

2006, Denise Zimmerman, Katherine Gleason, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft, unnumbered page:

I cannot claim that I ever came out of the broom closet, because I didn't even know that I had the option of hiding in said closet when I began to self-identify as a Pagan at the age of seventeen.

2009, “Junior Crone”, in Arin Murphy-Hiscock, editor, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft, unnumbered page:

(idiomatic) To publicly reveal that one is a Wiccan or some other type of neopagan.


Henotikon

From Ancient Greek ἑνωτικόν (henōtikón, “act of union”).

bor

(historical) A Christological document issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482, in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of the Council of Chalcedon and the council's opponents.


unterfirer

(Judaism) One who escorts the bride or groom to the chuppah; typically a parent.


shaliah

Hebrew שָלִיחַ

(Judaism) A legal agent; one who performs an act of legal significance for another.


Christotokos

From Koine Greek Χριστοτόκος (Khristotókos, “Christ-bearer”), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth, bearer”).

(Christianity) Synonym of Mother of God, Mary, mother of Jesus, in her role as the mother of the Messiah, particularly in Greek contexts.


Christmas bush

en-noun

Christmas bush (plural Christmas bushes)

Plants, of mostly unrelated species, that bloom around Christmas time.

A New South Wales Christmas bush), a tall shrub from Australia of species Ceratopetalum gummiferum.


Auramazda

Though the king was thus above all human law, he felt himself bound to recognize the higher or divine law of Auramazda.

1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 228:


Iotaba

From Latin Iotaba, from Ancient Greek Ἰωτάβη (Iōtábē).

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church#English

(Roman Catholicism) A titular see in Tiran, Palestina, Roman Catholic Church (located on the island)


Qasim

(Islam) Qasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.


Vatican II

Another big news story of the year concerned the Ecumenical Council in Rome known as Vatican II.

1965, Tom Lehrer, spoken introduction to "The Vatican Rag" on That Was the Year That Was

"The church teaching before Vatican II was that it was 'gravely sinful' to take 2 ounces of meat on a day of abstinence' such as Friday," said the Rev. Joseph S. Rossi, a Jesuit professor of church history at Loyola College.

1995 September 18, Rafael Alvarez, “Catholics asked to avoid eating meat on Fridays Cardinal suggests abstinence in weeks leading up to Pope's visit”, in Baltimore Sun:

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, 1962–1965.


Adar Sheni

From Hebrew אדר שׁני (literally “second Adar.”).


muscular Christian

en-noun

muscular Christian (plural muscular Christians)

muscular Christianity
muscular Christianity

A practitioner of muscular Christianity.


Neith

(Egyptian mythology) The primeval goddess of war and creator deity.


aborisha

A devotee of the orishas; a practitioner of Yoruba religion.


Second Day

Used (like also First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the "pagan" implications/etymology of the traditional name.

(Christianity, Quakerism) Monday (the second day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Fourth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Wednesday (the fourth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Fifth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Thursday (the fifth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Sixth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Friday (the sixth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


First Day

Used (like also First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the pagan history/etymology of the traditional name.

(Christianity, Quakerism) Sunday (the first day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Seventh Day

Used (like First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the "pagan" implications/etymology of the traditional name.

(Christianity, Quakerism) Saturday (the seventh day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Third Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Tuesday (the third day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


remove kebab

en-verb

remove kebab (third-person singular simple present removes kebab, present participle removing kebab, simple past and past participle removed kebab)

removes kebab (present singular third-person)
removing kebab (participle present)
removed kebab (participle past)
removed kebab (past)

Originally from a 2010 parody copypasta (see quotation below), itself inspired by the 1993 Serbian propaganda song "Karadžić, Lead Your Serbs".

REMOVE KEBAB remove kebab
 you are worst turk. you are the turk idiot you are the turk smell. return to croatioa.^([sic]) to our croatia cousins you may come our contry.^([sic]) you may live in the zoo….ahahahaha ,bosnia we will never forgeve^([sic]) you. cetnik^([sic]) rascal FUck but fuck asshole turk stink bosnia sqhipere shqipare..turk genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead turk..ahahahahahBOSNIA WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget ww2 .albiania^([sic]) we kill the king , albania return to your precious mongolia….hahahahaha idiot turk and bosnian smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE KEBAB FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. russia+usa+croatia+slovak=kill bosnia…you will ww2/ tupac alive in serbia, tupac making album of serbia . fast rap tupac serbia. we are rich and have gold now hahahaha ha because of tupac… you are ppoor^([sic]) stink turk… you live in a hovel hahahaha, you live in a yurt
 tupac alive numbr^([sic]) one #1 in serbia ….fuck the croatia ,..FUCKk ashol^([sic]) turks no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur flag and contry.^([sic]) 2pac aliv^([sic]) and real strong wizard kill all the turk farm aminal^([sic]) with rap magic now we the serba^([sic]) rule .ape of the zoo presidant^([sic]) georg^([sic]) bush fukc^([sic]) the great satan and lay egg this egg hatch and bosnia wa;s^([sic]) born. stupid baby form the eggn^([sic]) give bak^([sic]) our clay we will crush u lik^([sic]) a skull of pig. serbia greattst^([sic]) countrey^([sic])

i would like to use this post to thank the serbs for doing an actual legitemate^([sic]) effort to remove kebab from our continent

2015 July 11, anonymous author, 4chan, archived from the original on 2024-04-08:

Americans and thos^([sic]) evil jews from IsraHell unleashed all of these beasts that are heading towards us and sucking our welfare system dry. Remove kebab. Remove islamic filth. Burn the Quran. Destroy muslims. And let the United States and Israel perish. Death to these nations. MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN. WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES!

2016 February 27, Saint George, “SDU: Salute to the European youth”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

[Dan] Lind describes parsing the space between authentic and sarcastic hyper-nationalism as a "daily challenge" for Paradox. The term "kebab" is banned from the company's forums because of its use as a pejorative in the "remove kebab" meme (which itself is associated with an old Serbian nationalist fight song).

2018 June 6, Luke Winkie, “The Struggle Over Gamers Who Use Mods To Create Racist Alternate Histories”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 2019-02-28:

The Christchurch shooter politically identified himself as a "kebab remover." The words "remove kebab" was etched onto one of his assault rifles. […] [A] group of reddit communities that I help moderate based around the aforementioned Paradox Games decided to ban the 'remove kebab' meme after the Christchurch shooting. As an American Muslim involved in the community where the 'remove kebab' meme was most popular, it was shocking to see a phrase I myself had used be associated in acts of violence.

2019 July 6, Rumi Khan, “The Alt-Right as Counterculture: Memes, Video Games and Violence”, in Harvard Political Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Institute of Politics, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-03:

The Kosovans were in a prime position to exploit this moneymaking opportunity since Yugoslavia lay right on the Balkan route, the main pathway by which heroin enters Europe from the Middle East. This wasn't lost on the other side, either: Serbian ultranationalists, eager to 'remove kebab', also got in on the action.

2019, Niko Vorobyov, Dopeworld: Undercover in the Secret War on Drugs, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 20:

(Internet slang, humorous, offensive) To commit ethnic cleansing against Muslims.

Karadžić, Lead Your Serbs
Know Your Meme


nibbana

en-noun

nibbana (countable and uncountable, plural nibbanas)

Transliteration of Pali nibbāna, from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa).


Marianite

(Christianity, historical) A member of an ancient sect that regarded the Virgin Mary as divine.


scriptorian

Derived from scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”), by analogy with terms such as historian.

der

In this connection, I stress again the deep need each woman has to study the scriptures. We want our homes to be blessed with sister scriptorians—whether you are single or married, young or old, widowed or living in a family. […]

September 1979, Spencer W. Kimball, The Role of Righteous Women:

(chiefly Mormonism) One who is familiar with scripture or sacred writing, or who refers back to it frequently.


menological

From menologium, menologion, &c. + -ical (“forming adjectives”). Equivalent to meno- + logical.

Of or related to a menologium in its various senses.


ad orientem

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad orientem (literally “to the east”).

ubor

(Christianity) Facing liturgical east, that is, in the same direction as (and thus, away from) the congregation.


ad orientem

For that reason, I have restored the venerable ad orientem position when I celebrate Mass at the Cathedral.

2009 September, Edward J. Slattery, “From the bishop: Ad orientem”, in Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, archived from the original on 2012-02-10, page 3:

It was catechism by incense, rood screens, gorgeous vestments and ad orientem Masses chanted from high altars that scrape the heavens.

2019 August 15, Michael Rennier, “Liturgy wars? Younger Catholics just want reverence”, in Catholic Herald:

(Christianity) Describing worship facing liturgical east.


ad orientem

One faction within the Syro-Malabar Church favored the use of ad orientem in the liturgy — "to the east," with the presider's back to the congregation.

2021 August 5, Matt Kappadakunnel, “A call to communion: Pope Francis' letter to the Syro-Malabar Church”, in National Catholic Reporter:

Fr Kalathil says that just like there is a demand for Versus Populum in Ernakulam-Angamaly there are strong proponents of Ad Orientem in other dioceses.

2022 August 27, Disney Tom, “Altar ego”, in The Times of India:

(Christianity) Ellipsis of ad orientem worship, posture, etc.


Shango

An orisha in Yoruba religion, the god of thunder, fire, justice, dance and virility.


Sandersian

(religion) Of or pertaining to E. P. Sanders (born 1937), American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".


candlelighting

en-noun

candlelighting (countable and uncountable, plural candlelightings)

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(Judaism) The specific time eighteen minutes before sundown when Shabbat or holiday candles are supposed to be lit, according to halacha.


Hindutvist

A supporter of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism.


Aduwallah

Borrowed from Arabic عَدُوّ الله (ʕaduww allāh).

bor+

(Islam) Enemy of the God; Satan; nickname of Iblis.


communar

(Christianity) The administrator of a religious community.


Ansar

From Arabic أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers”).

(Islam, historical) A group of tribespeople, living in Madinah, who gave aid and protection to the prophet Mohammed and his followers.


cardiognosticism

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cardiognosticism.

(spiritualism) Mystical knowledge of, or the ability to know, a person's heart (thoughts and feelings).


barches

From Yiddish ברכות (brokhes, “blessings”).


tasbih

(Islam) A form of dhikr that involves the repetitive utterances of short sentences in glorification of Allah in Islam by saying "Subḥānallāh" (glorified is Allah).


Nar as-samum

(Islam) a demon in Ancient Arabic lore and later Islamic beliefs; meaning fire of scorching winds.


Marcion

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃʌ̈ʊ̯n/

From Late Latin Mārciōn (from Koine Greek Μᾱρκῑ́ων (Mārkī́ōn, diminutive of Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos, from Mārcus (from Mārs + -cus)))), from Old Latin Māvors and Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

der

(Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, history) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible


pittancer

(historical, Christianity) A person responsible for distributing small gifts on religious occasions.


rta

Unadapted learned borrowing from Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; rule; truth”). Doublet of asha.

lbor

(Hinduism) The Vedic principle of natural order that regulates the operation of the universe.


faitheism

(slang, neologism) Atheism, with a belief that faith should not be criticized.

(slang, neologism, derogatory) Atheism that derives from faith.


Mount Putuo

Partial calque of Mandarin 普陀山 (Pǔtuó Shān).

partial calque

Mount Wutai is really a cluster of five huge summits ranging in altitude up to 10,000 feet that is breached only by a few dirt roads twisting over the windswept passes of northern Shanxi. It is the most revered of the four mountains sacred to Chinese Buddhists, more than Mount Emei in Sichuan, Mount Putuo in Zhejiang or Mount Jihua in Anhui.

1984 October 16, Christopher S. Wren, “TO BE LEFT ALONE, CHINA'S BUDDISTS OPEN A DOOR”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, World:

An island in Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China


Usha

(Hinduism) A legendary princess. Daughter of asura king of Sonitpura Banasura. Wife of Anuiruddha. Grand-daughter-in-law of Krishna.


CofE

Church of England
Church of England#English

Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E.


altar server

(Christianity) A layperson, often a child or adolescent, who assists a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy, attending to supporting tasks at the altar.


miso-Christian

One who hates Christians or Christianity.


hyper-Calvinism

(theology) A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.


atheocratic

en-adj

atheocratic (comparative more atheocratic, superlative most atheocratic)

more atheocratic (comparative)
most atheocratic (superlative)

Communism, as an atheocratic government, fits this model with the exception that it replaces God as the supreme authority with human government.

2004, John Webb Kline, I Could Use a Miracle Right Now: Miraculous Intervention for Difficult Times, page 264:

We see the consequences of this atheocratic mindset everywhere. We see it most clearly in the case of legalized abortion.

2011 July 4, James D. Conley, “America's Atheocracy”, in First Things:

Until 1988, militant atheism was the official religion, one might say, of the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party was the established church in what might be called an atheocratic state.

2019, John Witte, Christianity And Democracy In Global Context, unnumbered page:

(usually derogatory) Pertaining to or characteristic of atheocracy; godless.


McChurch

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From Mc- + church. Usage dates back to at least the early 1990s.

(slang, derogatory, specifically) A megachurch.


altar of repose

en-noun

altar of repose (plural altars of repose)

(Christianity) An altar where the communion hosts consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Mass of the Lord's Supper are placed, or "reserved", for use on Good Friday.


ecumaniac

(religion, derogatory) A person of excessively ecumenical views.


shitstem

I speak for the people through protest music because I am part of the downtrodden being oppressed by the shitstem.

The United States of Amerik.k.k.a is responsible for founding four unique shitstems of incarceration, according to Angela Y. Davis, […]

2012, Ralph C. Hamm III, Manumission: The Liberated Consciousness of a Prison(er) Abolitionist:

(Rastafari, vulgar, derogatory) An oppressive sociopolitical system.


Sant Mat

A spiritual movement that originated on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th century CE.


sacerdotage

(religion, derogatory) Excessive sacerdotalism; focus on priests to the exclusion of other aspects of religion.


Tanit

Of Semitic origin, from Punic 𐤕𐤍𐤕 (tnt). Found in Ancient Greek as Θινιθ (Thinith), Θεννειθ (Thenneith).

Tanit, the moon goddess, her sacred veil, the zaïmph, and Salammbó are a poetic rendering of a threefold reality, similar to the notion of antiquity concerning the three faces of Diana (Thibaudet 138).

2001, Laurence M. Porter, editor, A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 320:

(mythology) A Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Ancient Carthage alongside Baal-Hamon.


tri-omni

en-adj

tri-omni (comparative more tri-omni, superlative most tri-omni)

more tri-omni (comparative)
most tri-omni (superlative)

(religion, of a deity) Omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.


sophiology

Russian Orthodoxy
Russian Orthodox Church

(Christianity) A controversial school of thought in Russian Orthodoxy, holding that divine wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this divine wisdom is in some way expressed in the world as 'creaturely' wisdom.


co-cathedral

(Christianity) One of a group of churches (usually a pair) which share the function of being the seat of a bishop.

konkatedrála

someone who owns something together with one or more other people


overnegation

Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.

1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80:


Friendsmas

Coordinate term: Friendsgiving

Few would have a greater mountain of unwanted Christmas gifts to climb than primary school teacher Kathleen Bevis, who splits her time between four Christmas's and one "Friendsmas" each year. […] "I couldn't get rid of it," Ms Bevis said. "I re-gifted it to a friend at Friendsmas, only to find it left behind."

2014 December 25, Eryk Bagshaw, “Unwanted Christmas gifts: $520 million worth of presents”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(informal) A Christmas celebration spent with one's friends.


nobodaddy

Blend of nobody + daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.

Likewise, Blake's God is not a Nobodaddy God, the Jehovah of the Bible, who himself was good but created in an evil universe. God and evil in Blake are not individuals but states.

1981, Charu Sheel Singh, The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blake in the Light of Hindu Thought, page 98:

Sylvia Plath had a Nobodaddy. Job had a Nobodaddy.

2010, John Rember, MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book:

Had "ultimate concern" in fact transformed God into little more than a "nobodaddy?" Was this just "merely a familiar form of atheism with a new name?"

2010, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies: The Tumultuous Decade of the 1960s, page 194:

The code is transgressive. It violates the repressive orders of Nobodaddies: the tyrannies arresting us in single vision, in dark-satanic wheels, the flat-line experience of exploitation and cynicism, the temporary manipulations of monomaniacal political or ad campaigns.

2014, B. W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, page 244:

(derogatory) The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.


Last Judgement

(chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of Last Judgment.


ijarah

(Islamic finance) A non-binding exchange contract concerning ownership of a benefit related to the services of a human being or sale of a movable object, but not concerning land, houses, ships, or animals.


everlasting life

For God ſo loued yͤ world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whoſoeuer beleeueth in him , ſhould not periſh, but haue euerlaſting life. (John 3:16, King James Version)

(religion) Eternal life; life after death.


samvega

en-noun

samvega (countable and uncountable, plural samvegas)

Transliteration of Sanskrit संवेग (saṃvega, “desire for emancipation”).

translit

(Buddhism) Dismay at the futility of life as normally lived; a sense of urgency to escape the cycle of samsara and achieve nirvana.


muwaqqit

(Islam) An Islamic timekeeper who uses astronomy to determine prayer times.


Dyeus

Learned borrowing from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jove and Zeus.

learned borrowing

Varuna may be related to Οὐρανός, and the inversion of the rôles of this deity and Dyeus as between India and Greece may indicate an ancient rival of the Sky-Father.

1926, V. Gordon Childe, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, page 81:

But these myths are on the whole of purely Greek origin, where the original Dyeus was associated with the Sun- and the Moon-myths.[…]Thus among the I.E.s we first have Dyeus, the god of the sky, who was the god of the sum total of the phenomena observed in the sky, the original conception, however powerful, being as yet too confused to have any definiteness about it.

1933, Panjabrao Deshmukh, The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature, Oxford University Press, pages 93, 126:

ARYAN RELIGION, the religion of the Aryans who settled India and Iran in pre-Zoroastrian times evolved around a supreme sky god known as Dyeus, who was the Allfather of both gods and men and the consort of the Mother Earth.

1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, →ISBN, page 16:

Four or five thousand years ago (around 2500 b.c.) the Aryans, or Indo-Europeans, settled in Iran and India. Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words). Dyeus was the shining God of Sky, the giver of rain, the vanquisher of enemies with thunderbolts.

1990, Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 119:

“God” to the Aryans was male and took on many forms. Their major gods were connected to the sun, the most important were Agni, Indra, and Varunai. Their main god was Dyeus (Sky God).[…]Dyeus / The God of the Aryans.

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God: An A-Z Guide to Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs about God, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 23, 68:

The PIE peoples had called their chief god by almost the same name: Dyeus. Like Zeus, Dyeus was a male god of sky and thunder. The Romans picked up on Dyeus too. The name “Jupiter” came from dyeu-pater, PIE for god-father. Later on, the Romans equated Jupiter with Zeus, a kind of double derivation from Dyeus.

2018, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, “Chapter 2: Nature Before Nature”, in City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right, Princeton University Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 19:

(linguistics, anthropology, mythology) The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.


Chronicler

The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...

2010, Tremper Longman, David E. Garland, The Expositor's Bible Commentary: 1 Chronicles-Job, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 36:

[…] effort to prevent a fall back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place. The Chronicler, like the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]

2019, CSB Bibles by Holman, KJV Apologetics Study Bible, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 49:

The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.


Wiccanness

A number of people are arguing that Wicca should be better (i.e., its elements more clearly) defined as a religion, and that there should be a minimal establishing criteria for Wiccanness.

1996 January 28, Felis Uncia, “Re: Differences between a Witch and a wiccan...”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), message-ID <aceltDLwwM2.9FK@netcom.com>:

I am under the impression that the formal declaration of "Wiccanness" has a profound effect on the lives of many, many people who choose this Path.

1999 July 10, Baird Stafford, “Re: At peace”, in alt.religion.wicca.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <1duqb01.172oq2b1hivw5gN@tsmlb1-54.gate.net>:

And I don't think this view is contrary to my professed "Wiccanness" at all. Reincarnation is a very real and tangible thing to me, if not in the traditional sense.

2000 March 24, deò, “Re: Re:Regression”, in alt.religion.wicca.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <jeSC4.68538$Hq3.1660912@news2.rdc1.on.home.com>:

Are you Wiccan? Do you involved in a Wiccan community? / This is a requirement for proper judgement of someone's Wiccanness.

2002 April 13, Parse Tree, “Re: Troll Magazine?[TROLL]”, in alt.slack (Usenet), message-ID <IyKt8.21380$AX.3983817@news20.bellglobal.com>:

Firstly, the issue didn't seem to be Jewishness but Wiccanness.

2002 November 23, Aqua, “Re: Out to the Shrink!”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet), message-ID <3ddede8b@duster.adelaide.on.net>:

Tho several of the ladies wore crosses, there was a definite air of ... um...Wiccanness about.

2004 September 6, Jackdaw, “Re: folks near Sarum”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet), message-ID <chi882$5nd$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>:

For me, personal contact with nature *is* the essence of my Wiccanness.

2005 February 24, -A., “Re: 'Grounded' Paganism”, in alt.religion.wicca.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <111qnvio0tn3s2e@news.supernews.com>:

It's high-schoolish now to think you can't deny your Wiccanness and your already published status (not that you would want to.)

2005 September 30, Sergeant Tibbs, “Re: Witch link to missing man (slightly political reply)”, in alt.religion.wicca.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <lci%e.685$qX7.522@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>:


Apam Napat

(Zoroastrianism) One of the Ahura triad of the Avestan tradition.


Saint Andrew

From saint + Andrew. From being the apostle Andrew.

(Christianity) An apostle of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ


akhi

Borrowed from Arabic أَخِي (ʔaḵiy, “my brother”).

(Islam, MLE, slang) Brother; a close male friend or associate.


Wiccandom

(very rare) The religious world of Wicca.


Deipara

Borrowed from Latin Deipara, from Deus (“god”) + pariō (“I bear [offspring]”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives), calque of Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “birth-giver of God”).

calque

It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]

1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.


Y'all Qaeda

Talibundy

Taliban + the surname Bundy after Ammon Bundy who led the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

(slang, derogatory, humorous, by extension) Rightwing extremist groups combining Christian religious ideology with militant or violent tactics and rhetoric.


reclamatory

Equivalent to reclaim (“return land to a suitable condition for use; claim back, repossess; return someone to a proper course of action, reform; cry out in opposition or contradiction”) + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory.

2. Evangelism; efforts to secure reclamatory conversions. 3. Missionary activities; at home and abroad.

1921, George Herbert Betts, The New Program of Religious Education, page 81:

With much that the author has to say we could very heartily agree, as, for example, the following, "religious education seeks to save the need for a reclamatory conversion, and in its stead to substitute a gradual and natural spiritual growth […]"

For them conversion is a necessary step in coming to God. They must return to moral sanity and say, "I will arise and go to my Father." While religious education seeks to make reclamatory conversion unnecessary by preventing the estrangement from God, religious educators should always recognize the need of effort to reclaim and then to train those whom the processes of nurture have either hever had a chance to win, or have failed in their effort to win.

1932, James Elmer Russell, The Up-to-date Sunday School: Its Organization and Administration, page 20:

But if conversion and religious education both aim at the same kind of spiritual release, wherein do they fundamentally differ? […] If vital growth in spiritual life vacates the need for a reclamatory conversion, we shall certainly not regret it.

1938, Torney Otto Nall, Vital Religion: A Crusading Church Faces Its Third Century:

(religion, archaic) Reformative, corrective; (of a conversion) representing a return to orthodox religious faith and behavior.


Al-Shaytaan

bor

Arabic الشَيْطَان (aš-šayṭān)


Dashain

(Hinduism) The Nepali version of the Vijayadashami festival.