Santa Clause

...each a good knife & some candy & put in their stockings for Santa Clause.

1978, Calvin Fletcher, “December 1857”, in The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, volume 6, page 153:

I can only sympathize with a teacher whose conscience is of such extreme dimensions that the corroboration of the "Santa Clause myth" causes a pang; and I should surely....I hope that few teachers of our fair Canada are burdened with such a troublesome conscience as your correspondent of Dec. 1st. Let us have Santa Clause in all his magnificence.

1906, Gideon E. Henderson, Matthew Parkinson, editors, The Canadian Teacher, page 511:

The section features several letters from children addressed to Santa. 14 letters are addressed "Dear Santa Clause", two are addressed "Dear Santa", and one is addressed to "Dear Old Santa Claus", which also mentions him by his full name two more times with the same spelling.

1908 December 17, The Jeannette Dispatch, Little Folks Write Good Old Santa Claus, page 9:

But since at times it is almost impossible to get at that time of the year, it became necessary to use some other methods of receiving and distributing the many presents from Santa Clause...Under the breakfast plate on Christmas morning a note is often placed, telling where Santa Clause has hidden the first present...There is a Christmas plum pudding made over a wire frame, covered with brown burlap and with raisins sewed on for decoration. This makes an excellent receptacle for the things brought by Santa Clause...

1910, Lenora Makelim, “Christmas Suggestions.”, in The Oregon Countryman, volume 3, pages 40–41:

Old Santa Clause, and him be me...They wuz no Santa Clause when he...

1915, James Whitcomb Riley, “What "Old Santa" Overheard”, in Riley Songs of Friendship, page 161:

...Was the chance that I might see Santa Clause....For you see my time has come, I'm Santa Clause.

1920, The Virginia Reel, Virginia Reel, Incorporated, page 19:

Susie wiped away the tears, and turned to look out of the window. Perhaps she said to herself, "perhaps Santa Clause has something for me after all!" Now, the sad, really dreadful part about it was that Santa Clause didn't have one single thing for Susie in his pack.

1922, Silas Xavier Floyd, Alice H. Howard, “A Christmas Present.”, in The New Floyd's Flowers Illustrated Stories Especially Arranged for Colored People, Austin Jenkins, page 184:

Dear Santa Clause: It would please me very much for you to send me a flashlighter.

1934, Pacific Telephone Magazine, Fun For All, page 11:

...and hope my dad and brothers Snake out tan bark to get a little money to buy things with One Xmas Santa Clause gave us three or four sticks of candie and a ornge^([sic])

1974, Eliot Wigginton, The Foxfire Book, volume 1, Anchor Press, page 16:

I understood all about Santa Clause, the baby Jesus and everything.

1984, Richard Gordon, The Bulldog and the Bear: A Play in Two Acts, S. French, page 74:

A year later, in Lynch v. Donnelly, the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island had erect a large Christmas display each holiday season in a privately owned park. This display included a Santa Clause house, reindeer, a Christmas tree, and carolers...

1990, Shlomo Slonim, editor, The Constitutional Bases of Political and Social Change in the United States, Praeger, page 77:

If we only remembered it was Christmas & not Santa Clause day.

1990, Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, Humphrey N. W. Toms, “22 December 1940”, in Doreen Walker, editor, Dear Nan, page 281:

"Well, Nutty Buddy's sick, too sick to have Santa Clause," said Yabbett. "Hope I'm not too young to have Santa Clause." She questioningly looked to Sam. "No you're not, twirp. No one's too young for Santa Clause." And Yabbett, leaning a bit closer to Sam, whispered very low, "Is Molly too old for Santa Clause?" "No twirp, no one's too young for Santa Clause and no one's too old for Santa Clause."

2001, Bonnie Gulan, Story Lady, chapter 2, in Lost Adventures of the House of the Seven Cats, page 24:

"Santa Clause?" Ellen asked, then rolled her eyes at her own question, "I mean, yes, sure, every kid learns about Santa Clause." "No," Mr. Stevens' smile faded and he plucked the leaf from the tree, “Every kid doesn't learn about Santa Clause, because every adult knows that Santa is a 'make believe', and overused flying, ho-ho-ho commercial."

2001, William D. Noe, Roberta J. Noe, Odds and Ends, Xlibris Corporation LLC, page 163:

"I think I saw Santa Clause." the child said, pushing up on her arms to eventually sit upright, her feet under her.

2012, Fernan M. Gruber Jr., Santa's Reindeer Hay, AuthorHouse, page 2:

The book repeatedly spells the name as 'Clause', including on the title and back cover: Do you know that Santa Clause is a real person? Do you know the true story of where Santa Clause [...] Just Call Me Nicholas, The Story of the Birth of Santa Clause will answer all of those questions and more. From Coach Kie’s Kid Collection comes this timeless lovely story about the birth of Santa Clause dating all the way back to the beginning.

2020 November 26, Coach Kie, Just Call Me Nicholas: The Story of How Santa Clause was Born:

Dear: Santa Clause. I wish you a merry Cristmas! Can you give me all big, small, and tiny meemeows I don’t have? [...] Dear Santa, Thank you for sending Wrinkle too! For Christmas I would like a black kitten. (PLEASE!!) Was there a Santa Clause before you?

2022 December 20, “Letters to Santa”, in The Northside Sun:

Dear Santa Clause, Thank you for the clothes you brought me last year. How are you and Mrs. Clause doing?

2022 December 21, “Letters to Santa Claus”, in Gazette-Journal:

2022 December 23, “Santa Clause comes early for one lucky person”, in City of Ballarat:


daoshi

en-noun

daoshi (countable and uncountable, plural daoshis)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道士 (dàoshì, “Taoist scholar, scholar of the Way”).

der

(Taoism) A person committed to Taoism, a Taoist priest, monk, etc.


Prithvi

English transliteration of Sanskrit पृथ्वी f (pṛthvī, “the vast one”), an epithet for Earth. Doublet of fold.

bor

(Hinduism) Name of deity Prithvi or Mother Earth


keriah

In Keriah for one’s father or mother, the garment is rent on the left side, where the heart is.

1976, Isaac Klein, A Time To Be Born, A Time To Die, page 29:

The ritual of keriah sublimates the self-destruction impulse by taking the sense of guilt into account and giving vent to it, but the act of cutting is limited to a garment worn close to the flesh.

1980, Abraham P. Bloch, The Biblical and Historical Background of Jewish Customs and Ceremonies, →ISBN, page 52:

Just before the funeral all the mourners repeat the act of keriah and recite a blessing to God that reminds the mourners that even at a time of grief they should praise God who created death as part of life.

2017, Victoria Williams, “Jewish Death Customs, Judaism”, in Celebrating Life Customs around the World: From Baby Showers to Funerals, volume 3, →ISBN, page 131:

(Judaism) The ritual tearing of one’s clothes while in mourning, now typically the wearing of a torn black tie or ribbon.


shammos

Alternative form of shamash (“sexton in a synagogue”)

Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”)


Akash

(Hinduism, Jainism) The sky and the cosmos.

Now when the vital principle aſſumes to itſelf a body of fire, air, and akaſh, it becomes what we call ſpirit or ſoul, and is endued with perception and the activity of thought in its motions.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 13:

(Hinduism, Jainism) One of the five Hindu elements: a primordial, imperceptible substance pervading the sky, cosmos, and open spaces.


Döllingerism

It will be only under the pressure of hard necessity that Döllingerism will ever consent to regard itself as a German sect.

1872 August 10, “Döllinger at the Munich Jubilee”, in The Spectator, volume 45, number 2302, page 1006:

There is nothing new in Döllingerism. It is the old story, as old as human shame and sin, of the vanity which is a law to itself, and the pride which will not stoop to obey.

1874, Thomas William Marshall, Protestant Journalism, page 156:

The Vatican Council, through its definition of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, had stirred up a muddy undercurrent of heretical and schismatic feeling among certain elements of the intellectuals, and Döllingerism was quite rampant, particularly in university sections.

1933, Celestine N. Bittle, A Romance of Lady Poverty: The History of the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in the United States, page 224:

(Roman Catholicism, dated) Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.


synodality

en-noun

synodality (usually uncountable, plural synodalities)

“I am well aware that speaking of a ‘Synod on Synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical, and of little interest to the general public,” Pope Francis said in August. But, he added, it “is something truly important for the church.”

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

(Christianity) The quality or style of a synod; fraternal collaboration and discernment as typified in a synod.


Book of Concord

(Christianity) The confessions and documents of the Lutheran Church.


subdevil

(theology) A lesser devil: one subordinate to an archdevil.


mukti

मोक्ष मोक्ष#Sanskrit

Feminine synonym of masculine substantive noun मोक्ष (mokṣa, “liberation”).


mukt

(Hinduism) not bound by the cycle of transmigration


Mrityunjay

From Sanskrit मृत्यु (mṛtyu) ("death") + Sanskrit जय (jaya) ("victory", "victor"). Literally "victor of death".


Saint Christopher

From Christopher. In reference to the Caribbean island, a calque of Spanish San Cristóbal. Doublet of San Cristobal and Saint Kitts.

doublet

(Christianity) A saint, who was an early Christian martyr.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Saint Christopher of Trebizond.


Palluite

(biblical) A member of the tribe descended from Pallu, a son of Reuben.


Gamaliel

/ɡæməˈliːəl/

From Late Latin Gamaliēl from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).

bor

Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl)

cog

ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:3:

(biblical, Judaism, Christianity) Gamaliel the Elder, a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE.


Synagogue of Satan

From Revelation 2:9: "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Synagogue of Satan.

(ethnic slur, religious slur) The Jews, regarded collectively.


works righteousness

(Christianity) The belief that salvation is achievable by doing good works, rather than merely by having faith.


JED

(religion) A hypothetical intermediate stage in the development of the Torah, consisting of a combination of the Jehovist (J), Elohist (E), and Deuteronomist (D) sources.


Beloved Disciple

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin discipulus dīlēctus, applied as an epithet of John the Evangelist. The term is a summary of the expressions found in the Gospel itself, such as ὁ μαθητὴς ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς (ho mathētḕs hòn ēgápa ho Iēsoûs, “the disciple whom Jesus loved”).

calque

And the beloved''' Disciple fell down as dead at the appearance of Christ in his Glory.

1674, William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes […], page 90:

The idea of the almost immediate return of Christ to judgment still so far retains its force that the Beloved Disciple is represented as probably living to see it […]

1872, Thomas Scott, The English Life of Jesus, page 328:

The question of the identification of the Beloved Disciple and that of the discovery of the author of the Gospel are not necessarily identical, for it is quite possible to argue, as we found Schmiedel doing just now, that the two were separate and distinct persons.

1949, Harold Holloway, The Twilight of the Critics: Being Studies and Reflections on the Fourth Gospel, page 76:

(biblical) A figure in the Gospel of John whose identity is left implicit within the text; traditionally, John the Evangelist himself.


inscripturate

en-verb

inscripturate (third-person singular simple present inscripturates, present participle inscripturating, simple past and past participle inscripturated)

inscripturates (present singular third-person)
inscripturating (participle present)
inscripturated (participle past)
inscripturated (past)

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

(transitive, theology) To put or make into scripture; to record or write in scripture:

To incorporate into scripture; to include within scripture.

To communicate or express through the medium or form of scripture.


inscripturate

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix).

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded or written in scripture; inscripturated:

Incorporated into scripture; included within scripture.

If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.

1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.

Communicated or expressed through the medium or form of scripture.


Seyed

Borrowed from Iranian Persian سید (seyyed), from Classical Persian سَیِّد (sayyid), from Arabic.


metadivine

From meta- + divine, a calque of Hebrew עַל־אֱלֹהִי (ʿal-ʾĕlōhî, “beyond-godly”), הֲוָיָה עַל־אֱלֹהִית (hăwāyāh ʿal-ʾĕlōhît̲, “beyond-godly existence”) as used by Yehezkel Kaufmann.

cal

There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.

1960, Yehezkel Kaufmann, “Chapter II: Pagan Religion”, in Moshe Greenberg, transl., The Religion of Israel, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 23:

(religion) Of or pertaining to the realm of existence prior to or beyond that of the gods, especially in nonbiblical/pagan religions.


inscripturated

...what we think about the incarnate Word of God, Jesus Christ, will run parallel with what we think about the inscripturated Word of God, the Bible.

1998, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd. 8 April 1998

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded, written, or included in scripture; inscripturate.


Exsultet

Borrowed from Latin exsultet (“let it [i.e., the angelic host] rejoice”), the first word of the prayer in the Roman Rite.

bor+

The Exsultet is the preeminent chant of cantor repertoire, both because of its difficulty and because of its importance in the liturgical year. Yet very few cantors have ever sung the Exsultet, or have seen printed music for it.

1997, Diana Kodner, Handbook for Cantors, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 77:

(Western Christianity) A long prayer traditionally pronounced or sung at the Easter Vigil, beginning “Rejoice!” or “Exult!” in English.


Cainian

(Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism) Synonym of Cainite.


Salve Regina

Borrowed from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

The fifth remark is, that any person who cannot read or hear the Novena read, can make it by saying every day five Salve Reginas and five Ave Marias, saying first an act of contrition, and observing as far as possible the directions here given.

1852, A Novena in Honour of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel […], page 7:

(Roman Catholicism) A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.


open evangelicalism

(Christianity, chiefly UK) An approach that attempts to uphold evangelical doctrines, morality, and spirituality while also being inclusive of others.


open evangelical

en-noun

open evangelical (plural open evangelicals)

(Christianity, chiefly UK) A person who takes the approach of open evangelicalism.


pirism

(Sufism, Bangladesh) The following of a Sufi spiritual leader (or pir)


sramana

A misannotated form of Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa). Doublet of samana and shaman in some contexts.

(religion, inexact, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of samana (“Indian ascetic, particularly in Hindu and Jain contexts”).


pardonmonger

I read of Tecelius, the Popes pardonmonger in Germany, that having by sale of indulgences scraped together a huge masse of money and returning for Rome, he was met and eased of his cash by an odde fellow; who being afterwards prosecuted for a felon, produced a pardon for future sinnes granted him by Tecelius himself, and being thereupon acquitted by the Judge, he roasted that which that other old fox had taken in hunting.

1650, John Trapp, Solomonis Παναρετος: or, A Commentarie upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs […], page 126:

Some of the bones were probably not even human, for Chaucer had the hardihood to represent the pardonmonger as carrying about with him a “pilwebere,” which he called our Lady’s veil, a cross of tin set full of stones, and pig’s bones in a glass; […]

1862, C. S. Carey, Lectures on the History of English Christianity, volume 1, The Roman Catholic Church in England, page 22:

For a certain nobleman having bought such an indulgence for thirty dollars, laid wait for the agent of the Pope as he passed between Jütterbock and Trebbin, deprived him of all his money, and stripped and beat him, alleging the plenary indulgence as freeing him from the consequences of his crime. In vain the unfortunate pardon-monger appealed to the Duke George of Saxony, who heard the story, and rather sympathized with the inflicter of the punishment than with his victim.

1883, Robert Charles Jenkins, Romanism: A Doctrinal and Historical Examination of the Creed of Pope Pius IV, page 237:

The first part is the tale of the temptation of King Humanity by Dame Sensuality; the second is the cheating of a poor man by a Roman Pardonmonger selling indulgences and absolutions; […]

1890, Aeneas James George Mackay, A Sketch of the History of Fife and Kinross: A Study in Scottish History and Character, page 42:

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) A seller of (papal) indulgences.


Cisalpine

The adjective is derived from cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”). Sense 2 (“of or pertaining to cisalpinism”) was popularized by the Cisalpine Club which was founded in England in 1792.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

They [volume XIII of the works of Henri François d'Aguesseau] shew the conflict between the cisalpine and transalpine opinions on papal power, so late as the reign of Lewis XIV, and the great difficulty, by which, even at that period, the former obtained the ascendant.

1821, Charles Butler, “The English Jesuits—Father [Robert] Persons”, in Additions to the Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics, from the Reformation to the Present Time, volume III, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 157:

[N]ot being swayed by the spirit of either the ultramontane or the cisalpine school, by impracticable philosophical Jansenism, by abominable, gross, and hypocritical Jesuitism, nor by a collection of irrelevant doctrines based on contested principles, let us fix the following ones, which are essential......

1845 June, “Art. IV.—1. Revelations of Spain, in 1845. By an English Resident, 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1845. Colburn. […] [book reviews]”, in The Dublin Review, volume XVIII, number XXXVI, London; Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son [et al.], →OCLC, page 403:

Within the first decades of the Sixteenth Century the University of Padua had secured a primacy in Europe which was to last for close upon three hundred years. […] [T]he academic pilgrimage, […] had become a daily, crowded transaction, in which the newcomers, no longer strangers and pilgrims, but fellow-citizens indeed, met the Cisalpine students on equal terms. As jurists or artists they were incorporated according to their place of origin into one or other of the Ultramontane "nations," each of which possessed its statutory rights and customs and shared in the administration of university business and in the privileges which the City-Commune was always eager to bestow.

1923 October–December, Leonard Penlock, “Cardinal Pole and His Friends at Padua”, in The Dublin Review, volume 173, number 347, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 210:

One of the best arguments for the Anglican position can be found in Gallican or Cisalpine Catholicism, whose roots go back to Roman Gaul but whose branches stem from the Port-Royal movement of the 17th century.

1945 August 26, Norman B. Godfrey, “Letters [Cisalpine Catholicism]”, in Clifford P[helps] Morehouse, editor, The Living Church: A Weekly Record of the News, the Work, and the Thought of the Episcopal Church, volume CXI, number 9, Milwaukee, Wis.: Morehouse-Gorham Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

[T]he "Constitutions of Narbonne" […] detailed further measures for governance in a collegial spirit by establishing a fixed triennial interval for the convening of general chapters and instated alternating locations for chapter meetings, oscillating between cisalpine and ultramontane provinces.

2014, Nicholas W. Youmans, “Non sic erit inter frateres. Internal Structures of Obedience in Early Minorite Relational Constructs”, in Mirko Breitenstein, Julia Burkhardt, Stefan Burkhardt, Jens Röhrkasten, editors, Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life (Vita Regularis: Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter [Ordered Life: Orders and Interpretations of Religious Life in the Middle Ages]; treatise 60), Berlin: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, part I (Creation of Norms), page 35:

Synonym of Gallican (“of or pertaining to Gallicanism (“the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope”)”)

Gallican

In pointing to some of these excesses on both sides, I have it not in contemplation to canvass, argue or even to refute errors either ultramontane or cisalpine, but merely to secure to myself a tenable position, […]

1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, to which the Creator Requires the Submission of Every Human Being. […], Paris: Printed by J. Smith, […], and published by W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 72:

Lord Stourton [i.e., Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton] had declined to join the Cisalpine Club, which consisted of men opposed to what they considered the excessive claims of an ultramontane section, but he remained a supporter of the views held by the dissolved Catholic Committee; […]

1936 May, Joscelyne Lechmere, “A Great Catholic Historian. John, Cardinal Lingard, 1771–1851”, in The Ecclesiastical Review: Monthly Publication for the Clergy, volume IV (10th series; volume XCIV overall), number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: Board of Trustees of the American Ecclesiastical Review for the Catholic University of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 474:

(UK) Of or pertaining to cisalpinism (“a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated from various legal restrictions”).

Cæsar had by this time nearly 30,000 men. The Cisalpine territories in mere enthusiasm had raised twenty-two cohorts for him.

1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XXI, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 356:

Yes, 'tis old Gallus owns the heritage / Seen on the side of yon Cisalpine slope; / The homestead with the spreading pine for cope, / The thatched roof covers but a single stage.

1927, José-Maria de Heredia, “Villula”, in Merle St. Croix Wright, transl., Translations from José-Maria de Heredia, New York, N.Y.: Harold Vinal, →OCLC, page 49:

The antiquarian [Marcus Terentius] Varro, quoting Cato [the Elder], says that the Insubres grew pigs so fat that they could barely stand, and both Polybius and Strabo say that Cisalpine pork fed all Italy. Strabo further says […] that the viticulture there was so prosperous that Cisalpine wine casks were as big as houses.

2018, Carolynn E[lizabeth] Roncaglia, “The Roman Conquest”, in Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, Part I (The Creation of Northern Italy), page 23:

Alternative letter-case form of cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”)


Cisalpine

Synonym of Gallican (“an adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism”)

Gallican

Some of the Cisalpines carried their opposition to the monastic orders so far as to be very unfriendly to the French émigrées nuns, for whose expulsion from England Sir J. Mildmay introduced a Bill in 1800.

1897, Wilfrid Ward, The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 203, note 1:

But the Cisalpines began to be overshadowed by the ultramontane spirit in the 1830s, and it was not until after the Second Vatican Council a hundred and thirty years later that English Roman Catholics again asked themselves whether they were primarily English or primarily Roman.

1992, D[enis] G. Paz, Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England, →ISBN, page 83:

Just as with the Blackloists and Jansenists (and perhaps even more so), suspicion of the supernatural came to characterize the Cisalpines, although this time it had little to do with their doctrine of grace and more to do with the Cisalpines’ desire to make Catholicism comprehensible to a sceptical age.

2013, Francis Young, English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829, →ISBN:

(UK) In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.


priestx

I’ve been ordained as a pagan priestx!

2019, Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir, The Lion Forge, LLC, →ISBN, page 189:

It turns out that across cultures and through recorded history, creating culture and recording history are among the most essential functions of the priestx.

2019 October 15, Kristian Wilson Colyard, quoting Mya Spalter, “Let These 9 Witches Tell You How You Can Be A Witch, Too”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 2019-10-22:

There will always be another teacher, leader, priestx, organizer, etc.

2020 July 29, Sidney Eileen, “Words Have Power – We Need Acceptance Instead of Tolerance”, in The Balancing Path (Patheos), archived from the original on 2020-09-24:

The Assembly of the Sacred Wheel (ASW) issued a press release announcing an amendment to their charter to be more inclusive and affirmative to non-binary leadership, and have added the gender-neutral term, “Priestx” as an option for leaders.

[2020 August 17, “Pagan Community News: Unauthorized ritual at Istrehågan in Norway, Assembly of the Sacred Wheel amends its charter, and more!”, in The Wild Hunt, archived from the original on 2020-09-21:

To be honest, I didn’t even know Hekate that well when I began, but within weeks I had gone from a sideline observer to a dedicated priestx.

2021, Rowan “Briar” Rivers, “Foreword by Rowan “Briar” Rivers: Coming to the Crossroads”, in Jennifer Teixeira, Hekate: Temple of the Bones, Moon Books, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

I CAN FINALLY COMPLETE OUR TRIAD WITH A REAL FREAK PRIEST/PRIESTESS/PRIESTX.

2022, John Allison, Steeple, volume 3 (That’s the Spirit), Dark Horse Books, →ISBN:

(neologism, rare) Non-binary or gender-neutral equivalent of priest.


rubricism

[…] finally both were wedded to an extreme high-church theory of discipline and doctrine, John Wesley being quite as far gone in this respect in 1735 as Newman himself was in 1835,—and indeed carrying his rigid rubricism and his asceticism very much farther than the Tractarians at any time carried theirs […]

1864 October, “Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, page 148:

Theodor Klauser, author of perhaps the most widely read general account of the project, did not help matters when he described the liturgy of the period from Trent to St Pius X (Pope, 1903–14) in terms of rigid unification […] and rubricism.

1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 19:

The earlier rubricism and strict observance of the laws governing valid liturgical celebration, were considered stultifying and obsolete by the Council Fathers.

2000, David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform, →ISBN, page 148:

(Christianity, derogatory) A pedantic or scrupulous emphasis on following rubrics, that is, written directions and regulations, in celebrating the liturgy.


infernalist

(theology) One who believes in infernalism.


TLM

TLM (countable and uncountable, plural TLMs)

Traditional Latin Mass
Traditional Latin Mass#English

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Traditional Latin Mass.


infernalism

infernalism (countable and uncountable, plural infernalisms)

From infernal + -ism. First attested in 1795, popularised in the theological sense in the 2000s–10s.

To these conceptions Protestant churches will gradually yield, and while still nominally the same in their faith, its infernalism will disappear, and the idea of future punishment will become a rational instead of a diabolical picture of Divine justice.

1853 August, “The Onward Movement”, in Joseph R. Buchanan, editor, Buchanan’s Journal of Man, volume 4, number 8, page 228:

Sheltered in my tiny corner of Christendom, like many evangelicals I was unaware of […] alternative prespectives on hell that did not transform God into a wrathful tyrant-judge who consigns the unrepentant to Dante-tesque tortures for eternity. As it turns out, the view of hell with which I grew up—infernalism—is only one of several options […]

2009, Brad Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem, →ISBN:

Embedded within his argument is the view that infernalism is a less severe form of retributive punishment than annihilationism; […]

2022, A. G. Holdier, “Comments on ‘Is Annihilation More Severe than Eternal Conscious Torment?’”, in Southwest Philosophy Review, volume 38, number 2, page 43:

(theology) Belief in the existence of hell, especially as a place of eternal and conscious torment after death.


Traditional Latin Mass

Then, on July 7, 2007, Benedict XVI promulgated his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, generally liberating the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) The form of the Roman Rite Mass that was general before the Second Vatican Council, celebrated in the Latin language and now typically according to texts promulgated in 1962 (the Extraordinary Form).


Traditional Latin Mass

Traditional Latin Mass (plural Traditional Latin Masses)

In one case, in August 2022, one particular Chicago parish which typically celebrated Traditional Latin Masses, stated that they would suspend all public Masses because they would not adhere to Pope Francis’s new guidelines on the subject.

2023, John Trigilio et al., Catholicism All-in-One for Dummies, →ISBN, page 283:

(Roman Catholicism) A Mass celebrated in this form.


choiceless awareness

Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

2023 February 2 (last accessed), Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The Core of the Teachings”, in jkrishnamurti.org, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:

(philosophy, psychology, spiritualism) The state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion; popularized in the mid-20th century by Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

الوعي بلا اختيار

the state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion


Samiri

(Islam) According to the Qur'an, a rebellious follower of Moses who created the golden calf and attempted to lead the Hebrews into idolatry.


FHE

family home evening
family home evening#English

(Mormonism) Initialism of family home evening.


Moorish Science

(religion) A religion comprising the members of the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded by Noble Drew Ali.


Savonarolist

(Christianity, historical) A follower of Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), ascetic Italian Dominican friar.


Savonarolism

(Christianity, historical) Religious support for Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), ascetic Italian Dominican friar.


qutb

Between the two breaths is a star. This star is […] the prophets, the qutbs, the saints of God, the lights of God, […]

2008, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Suratur-rahmah: The Form of Compassion, page 45:

(Sufism) One of the Sufi spiritual leaders of a particular era.


Mohyeddin

Borrowed from Iranian Persian محیالدین (mohye-ddin), from Classical Persian مُحْیِیالدِّین (muhyī-ddīn), from Arabic مُحْيِي الدِّين (muḥyī d-dīn, literally “reviver of religion”).

der

مُحْیِیالدِّین

مُحْيِي الدِّين


doongerwadi

tower of silence
tower of silence#English

(Zoroastrianism) Synonym of tower of silence


Seekerism

(historical, Christianity) The religion of the Seekers.


selichot

(Judaism) Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days.


shatnez

Borrowed from Hebrew שַׁעַטְנֵז (shatnéz), of obscure further origin.

bor+

(Judaism) Cloth containing both wool and linen (linsey-woolsey), which Jewish law prohibits wearing.


Simeonism

(Christianity) The beliefs of the Simeonites, followers of the Cambridge evangelical preacher Charles Simeon (1759-1836).


Simonianism

(Christianity) The beliefs of the Simonians.


Makar Sankranti

en-noun

Makar Sankranti (plural Makar Sankrantis)

Borrowed from Hindi मकर संक्रांति (makar saṅkrānti).

bor+

मकर संक्रांति

A Hindu harvest festival, usually observed in 15 January, marking the first day of the Sun's transit into Capricorn.


godsdamned

Bet they're not godsdamned bandits at all, but more like, godsdamned deserters.

2010, Chris Bunch, Dragonmaster: The Omnibus Edition:

(fantasy) Synonym of goddamned (in fictional worlds having more than one god)


Paccanarist

Named after the congregation's founder, Niccolò Paccanari.

(Christianity, historical) A member of the Society of the Faith of Jesus.


Ekalavya

Transliteration of Sanskrit एकलव्य (ekalavya).

translit

a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.


Counter-Reformer

From Counter- + Reform + -er or Counter- + Reformer.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A proponent of the Counter-Reformation.


Pasagian

(Christianity, historical) A member of a religious sect that appeared in Lombardy in the late 12th or early 13th century, and considered Christ the highest created being and a demiurge by whom all other creatures were brought into being.


paternosterer

Learned borrowing from Middle English paternostrer, equivalent to paternoster + -er.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) A maker of rosary beads.


adiaphorization

(theology) The act of making into an adiaphoron.


Persephassa

From Ancient Greek Περσεφάσσα (Persephássa).

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Persephone


Persephatta

From Ancient Greek Περσεφάττα (Persephátta).


angelomorphic

From angel + -o- + -morphic. First attested in the 19th century, but popularised after the 1950s on the basis of French angélomorphique as used in the work of Jean Daniélou.

Other early Christian texts describe Christ in angelomorphic or angelic categories. For instance, in the Pseudo-Clementines Christ is ascribed the role of an archangel and becomes identified with Michael […]

2005, Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann, The Destroyer and the Lamb […], →ISBN, page 80:

This larger theological articulation results in a quasi-Trinitarian structure of the divine world, featuring the Father, the Son/Spirit, and the angelomorphic Spirit.

2007, Bogdan G. Bucur, The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism, page 4:

For Fletcher-Louis the sectarian use of angelic descriptors (angelomorphic language) in reference to the high priest strongly implies an angelic transformation such that the priest is both “functionally and ontologically angelic”.

2017, Christine Hayes, “‘The Torah was not Given to Ministering Angels’: Rabbinic Aspirationalism”, in Charlotte Fonrobert et al., editors, Talmudic Transgression: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin, →ISBN, page 135:

(theology) Having the form of an angel; representing a specified person or object in such a manner.


Shushan

13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.
14 And the king commanded it so to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.
15 For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 9:13–15:

(biblical) Susa, Shush (the ancient capital of Elam, in modern Iran).


ashamnu

(Judaism) A Jewish confession in the form of an acrostic, customarily recited aloud.


asherah

en-noun

asherah (plural asherahs or asherim or asherot)

asherahs (plural)
asherim (plural)
asherot (plural)

H. Saggs maintains that during this time, asherahs were 'regarded by the worshippers as part of the cult of Yahweh, not of a separate deity Baal'.

2020, Tyson L. Putthoff, Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East, page 127:

(religion, historical) A wooden pole or tree set up to represent the goddess Asherah.


Ash'arism

(Islam) A Sunni school of Islamic theology, founded by Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari in the 9th–10th century.


avidya

Borrowed from Sanskrit अविद्या (avidyā).

(Buddhism, Hinduism) Ignorance or delusion.


avadana

(Buddhism) A form of Buddhist literature correlating the virtuous deeds of past lives with events taking place in subsequent lives.


qingzhen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 清真 (qīngzhēn).

The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).

2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Agriculture, Food, and the Environment”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 636:

A qingzhen label on food for sale or a qingzhen sign in a restaurant instantly conveyed to customers that they were getting a Hui product, not a Han one. Because qingzhen was so basic to Hui entrepreneurship, the city and provincial governments promoted its use as a marker of Hui “nationality tradition.”

2000, Maris Boyd Gillette, “Traditional Food and Race”, in Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:

Like many conservative northwest Hui, most Na villagers have become more conscientious about Islamic purity (qing) through attention to dietary restrictions. In order to preserve one’s qing zhen lifestyle, conservative Hui who do visit Han homes accept, at the most, sunflower seeds or fruit when offered by their host. When Han come to their homes, Hui offer them tea from a separate set of cups that the family itself does not use, lest the family qing zhen utensils become contaminated. Hui are also free to offer Han prepared dishes of lamb and beef, but the Han cannot reciprocate.

[2002, Dru C. Gladney, “Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community”, in Susan D. Blum, Lionel M. Jensen, editors, China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:

Since the taboos are strictly enforced, in towns and cities, the Hui people have their own qingzhen restaurants, so they would not have to dine with other non-Muslim people. Therefore, Hui qingzhen food stands unique among the numerous minority nationality food styles, and has produced many qingzhen dishes such as Triple Quick-fry, Steamed Lamb, Lamb Simmered in Yellow Sauce, and Lamb Tendons, which are all famous fares. Names such as Donglaishun, Hongbinlou and Kaorouji are all very famous qingzhen restaurants in China and even on the international scene. It is safe to say that the development of Hui qingzhen food has made great contributions to Chinese diet and culinary arts as a whole.

2004 October, 刘军茹 [Liu Junru], “Dining with the Minorities”, in William W. Wang, transl., Chinese Foods (Cultural China Series), China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:

(Islam) Synonym of halal: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name; permissible according to Muslim religious customs, especially of food preparation


masekhet

bor

Hebrew מַסֶּכֶת


Vajradhara

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वज्रधर (vajradhara).

lbor

(Buddhism) The ultimate primordial Buddha, according to the Sakya, Gelug and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.


oven dodger

In reference to the cremation of Jews during the Holocaust, suggesting that the Jews alive today are those who avoided being killed in the Holocaust, or their descendants.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:oven dodger.

(slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) A Jewish person.


EQP

(Mormonism) Initialism of Elders' Quorum President.


Triple Combination

en-noun

Triple Combination (plural Triple Combinations)

Pearl of Great Price
Pearl of Great Price

(Mormonism) The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.


triple combination

triple combination (plural triple combinations)


crusade bull

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A papal bull providing indulgences, dispensations from certain religious obligations, and absolution from certain ecclesiastical censures for the participants in a crusade, including those making donations for the cause.

bulle de la sainte croisade

bull providing indulgences, etc., for participants in a crusade


Strangite

(historical, Mormonism) A follower of James Strang, the American leader of a schismatic Mormon movement called the Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints_(Strangite).


Strangite

(historical, Mormonism) Pertaining to James Strang, his followers and their beliefs.


tabernacler

Art thou become a Tabernacler too? / When sure thou dost not mean to preach and pray, / Unless it be the clean contrary way; / This holy time I little thought thy sin / Deserv’d a tub to do its penance in.

1684, Aphra Behn, “A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love, pages 80–81:

We see, that these tabernaclers were assembled in a baking-house. A house where they are baking puddings and bread all the week, was on the Sunday morning turned into a conventicle.

1794, “An Account of the Trials at Chelmsford, &c.”, in The Triumph of Religious Liberty over the Spirit of Persecution […], published 1795, page 26:

Now here Mrs. Spark was to be censured; first, for preferring a tabernacle to her parish church; […] He took compassion upon the Widow Sparks, in spite of her being a Tabernacler, and drew her out insensibly to join the dance.

1839, Cranmer; by a Member of the Roxburghe Club, volume 1, pages 79, 107:

(archaic, rare) One who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.


targumize

en-verb

targumize (third-person singular simple present targumizes, present participle targumizing, simple past and past participle targumized)

targumizes (present singular third-person)
targumizing (participle present)
targumized (participle past)
targumized (past)

(Judaism) To translate the Tanakh into Aramaic.


Attis

A Greek and Phrygian god, the consort of Cybele.


adoptionistic

en-adj

adoptionistic (comparative more adoptionistic, superlative most adoptionistic)

more adoptionistic (comparative)
most adoptionistic (superlative)


infancy gospel

(Christianity) One of a genre of early apocryphal gospels narrating the childhood of Jesus.


Mormonophobia

If we started allowing religious people to break basic anti-discrimination laws, where would we stop? Until 1975, the Mormon Church said black people didn't have souls. […] Would we let a Mormon registrar refuse to marry black people? Would it be "Mormonophobia" to object?

2010 August 10, Johann Hari, “The Slow, Whining Death of British Christianity”, in HuffPost:

The Mormon church's past anti-gay positions and its role in financing Proposition 8 – California's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage – may have been the first dominoes to fall around the faithful, but vetting Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate links the straightforward similarities between Mormonophobia and homophobia.

2012 July 11, Tony Plakas, “Mitt's Mormon marriage march”, in Sun-Sentinel:

Hold on there! That's hate speech, isn't it? That Mormonophobia! / Now if only you could be so frank about Islam there might be some hope for you.

2016 April 15, Bob Tiernan, “Re: A news item Billy will like”, in or.politics (Usenet):


Thunar

Borrowed from German Thunar, a learned borrowing from Old Saxon Thunær, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunr. Doublet of Thor, Thunor, and thunder.

On the other hand, since the devil has, to a great extent, usurped the place of Thunar, it naturally follows that the favourite animal of the fallen god is often found reversing his former functions, and ministering to the powers of darkness.

1863 March, “Folk Lore. Whence It Arose, and What It Meant. Part II”, in Temple Bar, volume 7, page 4[4]2:

From this it follows at all events, that the worship of Thunar also prevailed in those regions […]

1882 [1835], Jacob Grimm, translated by James Steven Stallybrass, Teutonic Mythology, volume 1, page 161:

And most European mythologists followed them and saw in the Indra armed with thunderbolt a counterpart to the Germanic Thunar, who swings the thunder hammer Mjoelnir, a thunder-god of the prehistoric Indo-Germanic age […]

1981 [1905], Maurice Winternitz, translated by V. Srinivasa Sarma, A History of Indian Literature, volume 1, page 76:

(dated) The god Thor in continental Germanic mythology.


Archontic

Borrowed from Koine Greek Ἀρχοντικοί (Arkhontikoí), from ἄρχων (árkhōn, “archon”).

bor+

(historical) Pertaining to a Gnostic group or sect prominent in late antique Egypt.


transubstantiative

(Christianity) Of or relating to transubstantiation.


Tylerite

(Christianity) A supporter of the Reformed theology of Bennet Tyler.


Happy Merchant

Originated in a cartoon by A. Wyatt Mann (Nick Bougas) in 2001.

An anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew, often featuring in far-right memes and propaganda.


akshauhini

Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्षौहिणी (akṣauhiṇī).

(Hinduism, mythology) an army consisting of ten anikinis, or 21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot


guestmaster

(religion) A monk who receives guests in a monastery.


Defender of the Faith

en-noun

Defender of the Faith (plural Defenders of the Faith)

A title of many English, Scottish, and later British monarchs since the early 16th century, signifying governance of the church.


trichotomist

(theology) A person who believes that human beings are made up of three distinct components: body, soul, and spirit.


dichotomism

(theology) The belief that the human being is formed of two components: material (body or flesh) and spiritual (soul or spirit).


trichotomism

(theology) The belief that human beings are made up of three distinct components: body or flesh, soul, and spirit.


swim the Forth

en-verb

swim the Forth (third-person singular simple present swims the Forth, present participle swimming the Forth, simple past swam the Forth, past participle swum the Forth)

swims the Forth (present singular third-person)
swimming the Forth (participle present)
swam the Forth (past)
swum the Forth (participle past)

Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of central Scotland’s river Forth for Rome’s river Tiber.

(intransitive) To convert to Presbyterianism.


swim the Rhine

swim the Rhine (third-person singular simple present swims the Rhine, present participle swimming the Rhine, simple past swam the Rhine, past participle swum the Rhine)

swims the Rhine (present singular third-person)
swimming the Rhine (participle present)
swam the Rhine (past)
swum the Rhine (participle past)

Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Germany's river Rhine for Rome's river Tiber.

(intransitive) To convert to Lutheranism.


cross the Thames

cross the Thames (third-person singular simple present crosses the Thames, present participle crossing the Thames, simple past and past participle crossed the Thames)

crosses the Thames (present singular third-person)
crossing the Thames (participle present)
crossed the Thames (participle past)
crossed the Thames (past)

Variant of cross the Tiber, by substitution of London’s river Thames for Rome’s river Tiber.

(idiomatic) Alternative form of swim the Thames


swim the Bosphorus

swim the Bosphorus (third-person singular simple present swims the Bosphorus, present participle swimming the Bosphorus, simple past swam the Bosphorus, past participle swum the Bosphorus)

swims the Bosphorus (present singular third-person)
swimming the Bosphorus (participle present)
swam the Bosphorus (past)
swum the Bosphorus (participle past)

Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Istanbul's river Bosphorus for Rome's river Tiber.

(intransitive) To convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.


yizkor

From Hebrew יִזְכּוֹר (literally “may [God] remember”), from the opening word of the service.

bor

a yizkor book; a yizkor sermon

(Judaism, often attributive) An Ashkenazi memorial prayer service for the dead.


Auld Kirker

(Christianity) A member of the Established Church in Scotland.


Kol Nidre

(Judaism) A Hebrew and Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur.


Rāgarāja

A deity in Tibetan Buddhism and some other Asian Buddhist traditions who is revered for transforming worldly lust into spiritual awakening.


area meeting

(Quakerism) A monthly meeting, but one that does not necessarily meet on a monthly basis.


Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
w:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

(India, Indian politics, Hindutva) Ellipsis of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.


Yahoel

Transliteration of Old Church Slavonic иаоиль (iaoilĭ), from reconstructed Greek Ιαοὴλ (Iaoḕl), from reconstructed Hebrew יהואל or יואל; thought to be a compound of the Tetragrammaton, יהוה (Yahweh or Yahoh), and אֵל (ʾēl), both used as names of God and the latter a common ending of personal names.

translit

(Judaism) angel name used in different texts, e.g. one of Metatron's names


eye-gate

Give what "is written," and then, by maps, picture objects, black-board exercises, and stories, put it into "wagons" to help the imagination and the understanding, and send it through "eye-gate," into the soul.

1874, W. F. Crafts, Wagons for Eye-gate; Or, Illustrative Teaching, page 5:

Eye-gate is one of the great openings to the soul.

1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 443:

(religion) The sense of sight as a means of connection to the soul.


Chrizzo

From Christian + schizo, implying irrational beliefs or behavior.

A stress ball shaped like a Bible... Chrizzos are stepping it up a level 😂😂

2017 September 9, Rehana Nurmahi, “@Han_notsolo”, in Twitter:

It's a bunch of old people and Christians every goddamn show. I'm fucking sick of it. Gotta ditch these Chrizzos ASAP.

2019 January 17, James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, spoken by James Acaster:

And the rest of 'dem mutherfuckahs out at 'dat Nazi Chrizzo Klan rally are gonna get exactly 'da same!

2021 October 21, J. D. Riley, A Jeweler’s Eye View Volume Three: a Dream's End, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

Tobias Forge trying so hard to wind up the chrizzos when all he had to do was put on a dress

2023 February 7, McRob, “@puns_n_roses”, in Twitter:


gracism

(Christianity) A Christian alternative to secular models of affirmative action or colorblindness that seeks to extend God's grace to people of all backgrounds, regardless of colour, class, or culture.


biblically accurate

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

Likely from Bible verses such as Revelation 4:8 describing angels as having many eyes and wings; such depictions are said to be more "accurate" than humanoid ones. Popularized around 2019-2020.

My family doesn't appreciate my biblically accurate angel cookie [Picture of a cookie covered in cartoony eyes made of frosting]

2019 December 26, Sarah L. Hawthorn (@slhawthorn), Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02:

biblically accurate engels [Picture of Friedrich Engels with four extra eyes edited onto his forehead]

2022 April 30, @queersatanic, quoting pixel 🖤 (@Pxlutopia), Tumblr, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

borzóis^([sic]) are biblically accurate dogs

2023 September 30, ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔩 🪐✨. . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ (@earth222carol), “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

(Internet slang, humorous) Having an unsettling or cursed, "unfathomable" appearance, especially one with many eyes and wings.

библе́йски то́чный

having many eyes and/or being an unfathomable being


gracist

(Christianity) One who espouses gracism.


Paschal Triduum

Learned borrowing from Latin Triduum Paschale.

lbor

The Triduum was seen more as a preparation for Easter than as embracing Easter, more as a Triduum of the Passion than as the Paschal Triduum

1995, Roger Greenacre, Jeremy Haselock, The Sacrament of Easter, Gracewing, page 105:

The high point of the entire liturgical year is the Paschal Triduum, which begins on Holy Thursday evening and lasts until Easter Sunday evening. The Paschal Triduum celebrates the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, who dying has destroyed our death, and by rising restored our life.

2015, Mark G. Boyer, The Liturgical Environment, 3rd edition, Liturgical Press, page 262:

2020, Christopher Carstens, Principles of Sacred Liturgy, Liturgy Training Publications (Hillenbrand Books), page 202,
The three-day Paschal Triduum is its own season and is the center of the sacramental year. The Easter season follows the Paschal Triduum and concludes with Pentecost.

(Roman Catholicism) A period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday.


miktam

From Hebrew מִכְתָּם, of unknown meaning, occurring in the headings of these psalms.

bor

Hebrew מִכְתָּם

(Judaism) Any of the Psalms 16 and 56–60 in the Hebrew Bible.


Exclusive Brother

en-noun

Exclusive Brother (plural Exclusive Brethren)

(Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Exclusive Brethren, a Christian evangelical movement whose members separate themselves from the rest of society.


Recordite

(Christianity, historical) A member of an evangelical faction in the Church of England, associated with Alexander Haldane's campaigning newspaper The Record (founded in 1828).


kaffara

Coordinate term: fidyah

(Islam) A religious donation of money or food made to help those in need, as a forfeit by somebody who has missed a fast unnecessarily.


fidyah

bor

Arabic الفدية

Coordinate term: kaffara

(Islam) A religious donation of money or food made to help those in need, as a forfeit by somebody who has missed a fast out of necessity.


Shaykhism

(Islam) A Shi'a Islamic school founded by Shaykh Ahmad in early 19th-century Qajar Iran, diverging from the Usuli school in its interpretation of key ideas such as the nature of the end times and the day of resurrection, the source of jurisprudential authority, and the proper hermeneutic to be employed in interpreting prophecy through the mystical writings of the Twelver Imams.


papal cross

A cross that serves as an emblem for the office of the pope in ecclesiastical heraldry, consisting of a staff with three horizontal bars near the top, diminishing in length as the top is approached.


altar carpet

(Christianity) A carpet covering the sanctuary and steps of the high altar.


excardinate

en-verb

excardinate (third-person singular simple present excardinates, present participle excardinating, simple past and past participle excardinated)

excardinates (present singular third-person)
excardinating (participle present)
excardinated (participle past)
excardinated (past)

When a see is vacant , whoever governs the diocese ad interim until the designation of a diocesan administrator is not competent to incardinate or excardinate a cleric ( cann . 419 , 428 ) . Can . 272 adds that the diocesan[…]

2002, Michael J. Mullaney, Incardination and the Universal Dimension of the Priestly Ministry: A Comparison Between CIC 17 and CIC 83, Gregorian Biblical BookShop, →ISBN, page 187:

In order to be able to excardinate this cleric the bishop of diocese B must be his proper bishop ; for only a cleric's proper bishop can excardinate a cleric . " It cannot be denied that the bishop of diocese B is competent to[…]

1935, John Michael Moeder, The Proper Bishop for Ordination and Dimissorial Letters: An Historical Synopsis and Commentary:

The proper canonical process was to excardinate Widera from the Milwaukee Archdiocese and to incardinate him into the Orange Diocese . Once a diocesan priest becomes incardinated in a new diocese , his relationships , obligations , and[…]

2003, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:

(Christianity, transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.


Isaianic

en-adj

Isaianic (comparative more Isaianic, superlative most Isaianic)

more Isaianic (comparative)
most Isaianic (superlative)

From Isaiah + -n- + -ic or Isaian + -ic.

Synonym of Isaian (“of or relating to the Biblical Isaiah”)


protopresbyter

Borrowed from Greek πρωτοπρεσβύτερος (protopresvýteros). By surface analysis, proto- (“first”) + presbyter.

bor+

πρωτοπρεσβύτερος

surf

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An archpriest or, in the Russian Orthodox tradition, a non-monastic priest ranking higher yet than an archpriest.


magisteriology

These studies have not pointed out these errors and inadequacies in order to discredit the hierarchical magisterium but rather to make possible a realistic magisteriology that will properly reflect the true nature of the teaching and witnessing of the Church.

1970, Charles E. Curran, Robert E. Hunt, Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae, page 66:

It is also a necessary corrective today for the absolute tutiorism [rigorism] implicit in much of the oracular magisteriology which still abides at every level of the church.

1980, Daniel C. Maguire, “The Encyclopedia of Bioethics”, in Theological Studies, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, page 757:

Here was the clearest statement yet of the “Magisteriology” of the dissenting theologians: the teaching of Humanae Vitae was not in fact morally binding, and it was the great task of theologians to help ordinary laypeople to understand this.

2015, Peter M. Mitchell, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, →ISBN:

(Roman Catholicism, rare) Theology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church.


gappist

Let us assume, for the moment, that Adam was really the grandfather of Seth, as claimed by “gappists.”

1981, Creation Research Society Quarterly, page 63:

Thus, the “gappists” claim the verbs “create” and “make” have different functions and cannot be used interchangeably!

2004, Marc Millan, Destroying Diabolical Opposition: A Training Manual for Winning the Battle, Dunamis Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:

Many gappists have used the word “replenish” in the KJV translation of Genesis 1:28 to justify the gap theory on the basis that this word means “refill.”

2006, Ken Ham, “What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?”, in Ken Ham, Bodie Hodge, editors, The New Answers, Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible, Answers in Genesis, published 2022, →ISBN, page 61:


destructionism

(theology) A belief in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked.


ostiariate

From ostiary + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group of people performing it).

af

(Catholicism) The minor order of ostiaries, or porters.


exorcistate

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exorcistātus.

(Catholicism) The minor order of exorcists.


Omer beard

(Judaism) a beard grown during the time in Omer, when the beard must not be cut


TWOT

As noted in TWOT 1:132, its roots and derivatives occur 415 times in the Hebrew Bible: 214 times it appears in the Piel stem, which is always translated “to bless.”

2019, Terry L. Cross, The People of God's Presence: An Introduction to Ecclesiology, Baker Academic, →ISBN:

(theology) Acronym of Theological wordbook of the Old Testament.


Edwardsianism

(Christianity, historical) A school of theology that grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, culminating a little before the American Civil War, declining afterwards, and rapidly disappearing after the year 1880.


Lord's table

(Christianity) The table used for preparation of Holy Communion.


Lorraine cross

en-noun

Lorraine cross (plural Lorraine crosses)

cross of Lorraine
cross of Lorraine#English


Mahasamghika

(Buddhism, historical) An early school of Buddhism, originally based in Magadha.


dryghten

Learned borrowing from Old English dryhten which comes from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz. Cognate with Old Frisian drochten, Old Saxon drohtin, Old High German truhtin, Old Norse dróttinn.

lbor

(Wicca) the universal pantheistic deity in Wicca, variously as Dryghtyn or "the One" or "The All." This impersonal ultimate divinity is generally regarded as unknowable, and is acknowledged but not worshiped


Blessed Virgin Mary

“Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.

2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times:

(Christianity) Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).


Hadrat

Borrowed from Arabic حَضْرَة (ḥaḍra, “presence”).

bor+

(Islam) A title used by Muslims to honor a person.


Sunni Islamic

(Islam) Of or pertaining to Sunni Islam.


parochet

(biblical) The curtain that covered the Ark of the Covenant.

(Judaism) The curtain that covers the ark containing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue.


shovavim

(Judaism) A period of six to eight weeks every year in which, according to some kabbalists, one should focus on repentance for sins, particularly sexual sins.


Lamb-god

Many people think that the association of the Lamb-god with the Cross arose from the fact that the constellation Aries at that time was on the heavenly cross (the crossways of the Ecliptic and Equator.)

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 46:


tau cross

A cross shaped like the Greek capital letter tau, sometimes with all three ends of the cross expanded.


metethereal

But for our minds there must needs be 'a critical point' in any such imagined continuity; so that the world where life and thought are carried on apart from matter, must certainly rank again as a new, a metethereal environment.

1904, Viscount [Richard] Haldane, The Pathway to Reality, London: John Murray, page 583:

(spiritualism) Lying beyond the ether; spiritual, transcendent.


Yamantaka

A Buddhist deity who represents the end of the cycle of rebirth, samsara.


providentialism

en-noun

providentialism (usually uncountable, plural providentialisms)

(chiefly Christianity) The belief that all events are predetermined by God or fate.


Vaibhasika

(Buddhism, historical) An ancient Buddhist tradition of Abhidharma that was very influential in north India, especially Kashmir.


Revised Version

(biblical) A late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of the Bible.


Amaziah

From Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ.

der

Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew


Cadalan

Cencius had also actively supported the anti-pope Honorius II, and the Castel S. Angelo, which he controlled was a bastion of the Cadalan party.

1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, →ISBN, page 326:

It seems, then, that Matilda’s role in the Cadalan schism was more limited than has been supposed.

2008, David J. Hay, The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115, →ISBN, page 41:

The first of these interventions against the Normans was reported during the so-called Cadalan schism that pitted antipope Honorius II (Bishop Peter Cadalus of Parma) against Pope Alexander II (Bishop Anselm of Lucca).

2015, Elizabeth Lapina, Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, →ISBN, page 92:

(historical) Relating to Peter Cadalus (c. 1010 – 1072), antipope as Honorius II from 1061 to 1072.


Guibertine

Magninulph, an archpriest, was then elected by the Guibertine party, with the title of Sylvester IV., and died suddenly.

1847, George Townsend, Ecclesiastical and Civil History Philosophically Considered […], volume 2, page 332:

The cardinals had grown in importance during the course of the Guibertine schism, and both those who had rebelled against Gregory and those who remained loyal were anxious to enhance their prerogatives.

2000, G. A. Loud, Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History, page 106:

It might be a response to anti-pope Guibert of Ravenna’s encyclical of 1089, but it could also be a retort to the criticism of Pope Urban II and his supporters following the council of Piacenza at which the Pope favored the reinstatement in the clerical office of members of the Guibertine party.

2007, Leidulf Melve, Inventing the Public Sphere: The Public Debate during the Investiture Contest (c. 1030–1122), volume 1, →ISBN, page 95, note 220:

(historical) Relating to Guibert of Ravenna (c. 1029 – 1100), antipope as Clement III from 1080 to 1100, and his supporters.


PIMO

I have been in your shoes and am just now returning after a decade of being "PIMO," or "physically in, mentally out." My husband has been the one who has been strong in his testimony, but mine has been non-existant^([sic]) for quite a while.

2023 October 29, u/beluga-farts, “How to deal with the "bubble bursting"”, in Reddit, r/lds:

(colloquial) Abbreviation of physically in, mentally out

(Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism) Identifying publicly or outwardly with an organization (religious group, etc.) while privately or inwardly disassociating from it.


trump of doom

The shed blew with a sound like the Trump of Doom.

1981, No-Frills Book: Western, page viii. 55:

(Christianity) A trumpet signal indicating the moment of God's final judgement on Earth.


Bajrangbali

Borrowed from Hindi बजरंगबली (bajraṅgablī).


Shabbat goy

en-noun

Shabbat goy (plural Shabbat goys or Shabbat goyim)

Shabbat goys (plural)
Shabbat goyim (plural)

(Judaism) A non-Jewish person who assists Jews on the Sabbath by performing tasks that Jews are not permitted to do, such as operating machinery.


the Lord's work

The devil is always telling us ways to get out of doing the Lord's work. It is amazing that many times it is easier to hear the devil than it is to hear God's calling.

2014, Daniel T.T. Thompson, The Lord's Prayer, page 208:

Work in accordance with the will of God.


zimun

Borrowed from Hebrew זימון (“invitation, summons”).

bor+

(Judaism) A blessing made before Birkat Hamazon, calling together those who have eaten.


Necessitas

(Roman mythology, Orphic theology) The personification of absolute necessity; Ananke.


chatzot

A wind would blow every night at chatzos and cause King David's harp to play, and this would wake him up and he would study torah.

2004 June 10, cindys, “God studies Torah and wears Tefillin?”, in alt.messianic (Usenet):

(Judaism) The time exactly halfway between sunset and sunrise; midnight.


chumra

Put mezuzas on the doors of your minivan and tell everyone "It's the latest chumrah, but most people don't follow it".

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

[Pesach] should be a time of feeling closeness to G-d and thankfulness for his deliverance. Getting hung up on "chumros" could end up being an ego-trip all of it's^([sic]) own.

2003 September 19, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Observance of a law to an extent beyond that required by the laxest interpretation.


machmir

en-adj

machmir (comparative more machmir, superlative most machmir)

more machmir (comparative)
most machmir (superlative)

Borrowed from Hebrew מַחְמִיר (“makhmir”).

bor+

If I'd let people in my shul know I was gay prior to getting involved with my partner, they would have distanced themselves from me as if I was some kind of pariah. No violation of sex laws even according to the most machmir views; merely the fact of *being* gay.

2000 September 19, Lisa Beth, “Rabi Shmuli Boteach refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?

2008 July 16, Jessie Fischbein, “Being Machmir”, in The Jewish Star:

(Judaism) Being the strictest interpretation of the law; following this interpretation.


mezuman

It is the custom of some, when traveling and eating at the house of a Gentile, not to recite Birkas Hamazon with a mezuman.

2019 August 5, Netzari Emunah, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 236:

A quorum of three men (in some traditions, three men or three women) to recite Birkat Hamazon after a meal.


Meshichism

(Judaism) The belief that that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the Messiah.


mamzerut

(Judaism) The state of being a mamzer (child born of an impermissible union).


psak

By the end of the meal one of them remembered a psak that said that women eating together should make a mezumen. They debated it while I looked in the Shulchan Aruch for anything that says so or otherwise.

1999 November 2, Yisroel Markov, “Personal Kiddush”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

Words like "reasonable to say" and "arguably" betoken a "gut feeling" rather than a clear psak.

2004 October 18, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

A decisive rabbinic ruling on halachic law.


idol shepherd

(Christianity) A false leader, one who does not lead the people correctly.


safek

The safek inherent in whether the dead brother had a child or not.

1996 May 6, Art Kamlet, “***Israeli Citizenship***”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

What's "ethnically" Hungarian about them? Perhaps, and I have some sfekot, [they are] ethnically Jewish.

2000 November 19, Abe Cohen, “Naomi's outburst”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Even in cases where there is some doubt if the intent of marriage existed in both parties, the rabbis might demand that they get divorced with a get, since there is a safek that they may be married according to Torah law and therefore it is best to issue a get to remove all doubt and therefore remove any chance that the woman's future children might be mamzerim.

1996 April 29, Jonathan Kamens, “Question on love affairs and illegitimate children”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

However, we rule that it is a safek and accordingly the blessing should not be recited.

2003, J. H. Henkin, Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:

(Judaism) A doubtful case; something that is up for debate


lamdan

Borrowed from Hebrew למדן (lamdan), partially via Yiddish למדן (lamdn).

I'm not such a lamdan that I can learn halacha from the Gemara.

1996 May 2, Warren Burstein, “Question on love affairs and illegitimate children”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


LOR

en-noun

LOR (countable and uncountable, plural LORs)

When I repeated this idea to my LOR, he mentioned that he saw it in "Da'as Torah", written by R' Yerucham Levovitz, the mashgiach of Mir.

2000 April 24, Micha Berger, “Moshe's Song”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) Abbreviation of local Orthodox rabbi.


kinyan

An abstract kinyan has absolutely no validity in halacha. A kinyan has to stipulate how much, what and where. Thus, the Lieberman clause requiring the couple to "accept the authority of the Conservative bet din" is meaningless in halacha and invalid.

2001 July 23, BAC...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Need the strictest rabbi I can find.”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


averah

It's an averah to tell a lie, even if it would benefit us.

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Is Christianity, jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic cleanser urging His people on to acts of genocide & child abuse…”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):


possul

You should not use your best friends as witnesses as they may be considered prejudiced and may possibly be considered posul as witnesses.

1990 December 13, David Suna, “MARRIAGE VIA INTERCOURSE”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

Perhaps you should avoid this Chabad house--by your standards their sefer torah is probably possul, since it's only been checked and fixed by a chalav stam drinker.

1994 July 25, Matthew P Wiener, “Why are Hasidim speaking for all Orthodox”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

I’ve seen many taleisim before, dose of Chayim and Yossel.
But as for your tallis, I must say, dis iz definitely possul.
I could vork on your tallis some more, but it really doesn’t pay.
If I vere you, I vould buy a new tallis, and throw dis old von avay.

1998 March 9, Gabriel Z. Wasserman, “Purim stuff”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) Invalid for ceremonial or official purposes.


hekesh

One SCJ commentator said how he felt that the custom of kissing the mezzuzah was something that should be banned as being too close to avodah zarah. (and he made a hekesh to the nachash nechoshet)

1992 September 8, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.

1995 June 6, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic, Avi Sion, →ISBN, page 150:

Talmudic tradition (Shabbat 92a) connects them with a hekesh, teaching that both reached full stature: “Just as the mishkan was ten cubits tall, so too the altar was ten cubits tall.”

2006, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gold from the Land of Israel, Chanan Morrison, →ISBN, page 150:

(Jewish law) Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.


drasha

My shul's Rabbi devoted his Shabbat morning drasha a couple of weeks ago to the idea that the mezuza provides protection.

1992 September 3, Robert B. Israel, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


avodah zarah

Borrowed from Hebrew עבודה זרה (“foreign worship”).

bor+

One SCJ commentator said how he felt that the custom of kissing the mezzuzah was something that should be banned as being too close to avodah zarah.

The eradication of the mindset of avodah zarah is a lifelong quest.

2022 September 1, Rabbi Elie Feder, Gematria Refigured, Mosaica Press, →ISBN, page 44:


ghayrah

(Islam) Protective jealousy; a person's dislike or displeasure over someone else sharing a right or privilege that belongs to them.


misnaged

Borrowed from Yiddish מתנגד (misnaged), from Hebrew מִתְנַגֵּד (mitnagéd, “opponent”).


chazzanut

Why is having a chazan equated with a solo performance? My husband and I do the chazanut for our congregation because the rabbi cannot sing well enough to lead the congregation.

1996 August 30, Shirah Winicur, “Boring Reform services”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

Jewish liturgical music, as performed by a cantor.


semikhah

en-noun

semikhah (countable and uncountable, plural semikhot)

Borrowed from Hebrew סְמִיכָה (s'mikha).

One black hat shul in my neighborhood, when looking for a new pulpit rabbi, listed as one of their requirements that the rabbi needed to hold a four-year secular university degree in addition to his semicha.

2010 March 8, cindys, “How Nazism Shaped Islamist Views”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


chalav yisrael

Borrowed from Hebrew חלב ישראל (“Jewish milk”).

bor+

I am denouncing the unfortunate fact that people who are learned will use the Heter of R. Moshe to eat Ice Cream that is not Chalav Yisrael.

1994 July 23, YOSEF_KAZEN, “Why are Hasidim speaking for all Orthodox?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Judaism) milk or dairy product produced under rabbinic supervision.


chalav stam

Borrowed from Hebrew חלב סתם (literally, “plain milk”).

There are certainly those that maintain that for a doctor to drive home from the hospital on Shabbos or for a God-fearing Jew to eat chalav stam is perfectly lawful and legitimate and should not be viewed as concessionary practices.

2022 January 1, Rabbi Daniel Friedman, The Transformative Daf - Moed Katan, Mosaica Press, →ISBN, page 23:

(Judaism) Milk or other dairy product that is assumed to be kosher despite not being supervised by a mashgiach.


mara d'atra

Can't answer for other rabbis, but my mara d'atra only allows hechshered wines. I haven't asked him for a justification.

1998 July 21, Hadass Eviatar, “Kabbalah - basic intro & info”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

A rabbi with halachic authority over a certain jurisdiction or population.


Lubie

Pardon us foolish Lubies for considerings ^([sic]) holy what our Rebbe considers as holy.

2003 December 6, R, “More Chabad Mishegas”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


admor

The movement reunited under the third Rebbe, Menachem Mendel (Zemah Zedeq) -- only to experience another schism after his passing and the creation of multiple courts of Chabad admorim.

1994 July 26, A. Engler Anderson, “Why are Hasidim speaking for all Orthodox”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


sichah

Borrowed from Hebrew שִׂיחָה (sikha, “discussion”).

As for 770 being a "holy number," it is not "Lubies" who regard it thus, but the Lubavitche Rebbe himself who regards it thus, and spoke about it in innumerable sichos, many of them available in print.


talmid

'Chassidus' means the whole body of teachings of the talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov and further.

1998 June 24, Moshe Shulman, “The Only True Chasidus?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


pasken

en-verb

pasken (third-person singular simple present paskens, present participle paskening, simple past and past participle paskened)

paskens (present singular third-person)
paskening (participle present)
paskened (participle past)
paskened (past)

Borrowed from Yiddish פּסקענען (paskenen).

bor+

When the Rambam paskins one way and the majority paskins another way, the dispute is over practice and customs.

1997 May 12, Jay Lapidus, “Unique Medieval Jewish Philosophers”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


strong atheist

A person who is certain that no deities exist or who thinks that the existence of deities can be disproven.


Klal Yisrael

Borrowed from Hebrew כְּלָל יִשְׂרָאֵל (“the whole of Israel”).

כְּלָל יִשְׂרָאֵל

They claim that their Rebbe is the Moshiach of Klal Yisroel.

1995 February 2, Moshe Shulman, “Petitions, Acceptance and Moshiach”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):


positive atheist

en-noun

positive atheist (plural positive atheists)


plead the blood of Jesus

en-verb

plead the blood of Jesus (third-person singular simple present pleads the blood of Jesus, present participle pleading the blood of Jesus, simple past and past participle pleaded the blood of Jesus)

pleads the blood of Jesus (present singular third-person)
pleading the blood of Jesus (participle present)
pleaded the blood of Jesus (participle past)
pleaded the blood of Jesus (past)

Satan is absolutely stymied when a believer pleads the blood of Jesus. Satan can't get through the "blood" to harm the believer. If the believer but stay under the blood, he will be safe.

2004, Wallace Shows, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, page 194:

When a blood-bought child of God pleads the blood of Jesus in any situation, he or she invites Jesus himself into that situation. No sickness or disease can stand in Jesus's presence.

2020, Chichi Onoriobe, Exploring the Efficacy of Christ's Blood:

“Once we found out Pence turned on us and that they had stolen the election, like, officially, the crowd went crazy. I mean, it became a mob. We crossed the gate,” he said, according to court documents. “We just wanted to get inside the building. I wanted to get inside the building so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it. That was my goal.”

2021 January 19, Travis M. Andrews, quoting Joshua Matthew Black, “The Capitol rioters kept posting incriminating things on social media. Unsurprisingly, they were mocked — and arrested.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-19, Internet Culture:

To avow one's faith that Jesus Christ will save one from calamity.


Capuchiness

(Catholicism) A member of the Capuchin Poor Clares, a Catholic religious order for women.


Chokmah

bor

Hebrew חָכְמָה


D'var Torah

The title word of parashas Beha'alosekha (when you raise) is problematic. I'm sure Moshe has also heard a number of divrei Torah about it.

2004 October 13, Micha Berger, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) A sermon upon the weekly parashah.


niddui

One who is under a ban of nidui or cherem (G-d forbid) cannot be counted towards a minyan.

2003 April 30, R, “Who counts toward a Minyan?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Brief excommunication, lasting either seven or thirty days.


rice Christian

A person who has formally converted to Christianity for material benefits rather than for religious reasons.


baal-ha-bos

(Judaism) Alternative spelling of balebos


badchen

master of ceremonies
master of ceremonies

(Judaism) A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.


like a kid on Christmas morning

like a kid at Christmas
like a kid at Christmas#English


like a kid at Christmas

(simile, informal) Very delighted and excited.

think all one's Christmases have come at once


Beit Hamikdash

Borrowed from Hebrew בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ (“holy house”).

bor+

בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ


chillul Hashem

You don't hate Zionism. You hate Jews. It is a chillul HaShem every time you quote the holy Satmar Rov ZT'L.

2001 January 14, Moshe Shulman, “JEWS FORBIDDEN ON TEMPLE MOUNT”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

A disgrace before God; especially, shameful behavior by a Jew seen as 'giving God a bad name'.


eidut

The reasons for women's exclusion from eidut have expired now that women occupy secular positions of great responsibility and are no longer influenced by their husbands in public matters in the way they once were.

1999 October 22, j e rosenbaum, “Orthodox Institute Holds Graduation Ceremony for Female Rabbis”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

A person may not give eidut against themselves in a beit din.

2000 October 3, Lisa Beth, “Lieberman and Chillul Hashem”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

(Jewish law) testimony attesting to having witnessed the commission of the offense.


gadol

Borrowed from Hebrew גָּדוֹל (“big, great”).

There were many gedolim who said that it is infinitely preferable that the mosque be there than not, when there is no Beis Hamikdash.

2001 January 11, David Goldman, “JEWS FORBIDDEN ON TEMPLE MOUNT”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp. of the past.


Svarga

(Hinduism) The celestial abode of the devas.


solemn vow

(Christianity) A deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good, taken by an individual during or after novitiate in a Catholic religious institute.


tandava

Borrowed from Sanskrit ताण्डव (tāṇḍava).

(Hinduism) A divine dance performed by the Hindu god Shiva.


cross moline

(heraldry) A cross that has four equal-length arms with forked tips, so that it resembles a moline.


Tisha B'Av

From Hebrew תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב (Tish'a B'Áv, “the ninth day of Av”), from תִּשְׁעָה (tish'á, “nine”) + בְּ (b'-, “in”) + אָב ('Áv, “Av, fifth month of the Jewish Calendar”).

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תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב

(Judaism) An annual day of fasting, associated with a number of disasters in Jewish history.


Vaisheshika

Transliteration of Sanskrit वैशेषिक (vaiśeṣika).

translit

A particular school of Hindu philosophy from ancient India.


antimission

en-adj

antimission (comparative more antimission, superlative most antimission)

more antimission (comparative)
most antimission (superlative)

(religion) Opposing a religious mission.


archaeologism

From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).

Here is a liturgical revival which is within the potentialities of the humblest parish church or chapel and which is in no danger of degenerating into archaeologism, ritualism or aestheticism.

Paraliturgies are especially helpful to show the student the style of liturgical procedure, and start situating him for initiation into deeper faith. This assists sacramental pedagogy to escape the accusation of archaeologism or "another class", and rather helps students experience involvement in the sacramental idea.

1966, Catechetics: a theology of proclamation, page 73:

He also objects to something else, however, namely, "the romantic archaeologism of certain professors of liturgy who would throw out everything done after Gregory the Great as being an excrescence and a sign of decadence.

(theology) the use of ponderous, old-fashioned language.


phyletism

Borrowed from Greek φυλετισμός (fyletismós), from φυλέτης (fylétis, “tribesman”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”).

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Its progress in the past years shows that the heresy of phyletism is bound to rescind and that all those who really desire Orthodox unity—without losing anything which is precious and positive in their ethnic traditions—will join us in our common Orthodox witness to the world of today.

1977 May, John Meyendorff, “Blind Phyletism”, in The Vision of Unity, published 1987, →ISBN, page 77:

[Soloviev] lamented that phyletism, the division of the church along ethnic, national, or linguistic lines, had become Orthodoxy’s governing ecclesiology despite its official condemnation in 1872.

2017, A. Edward Siecienski, The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate, →ISBN, page 375:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.


mutakallim

en-noun

mutakallim (plural mutakallims or mutakallimun)

mutakallims (plural)
mutakallimun (plural)


monepiscopacy

Coined by English bishop and theologian Charles Gore in 1889, from mon(o)- + episcopacy.

coined

(Christianity) Leadership by a single bishop (in a diocese or regional church).


heteroousia

(theology) The quality of being heteroousian.


hindering impediment

en-noun

hindering impediment (plural hindering impediments)

(Christianity, law) An impediment to marriage that is impedient, i.e. serves to make the marriage illicit but valid.


wu wei

These alternatives seem tepid, or even reactionary – take Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s invocation of a politics of exhaustion that would ‘become the beginning of a slow movement toward a “wu wei” civilization, based on withdrawal, and frugal expectations for life and consumption’.

2013, Benjamin Noys, quoting Franco Berardi, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN:

A state of effortless inaction, in Taoism or Chinese statecraft.


SPCK

An SPCK publication of last year, Revelation and Reunion, deserves more recognition than it has had in this country.

1943 February 14, Father Joseph [Claude Crookston], “What Price Unity?”, in The Living Church, volume 106, number 7, page 9:

w:Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

(Anglicanism) Initialism of Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.


Low Churchman

(Anglicanism) A member of the Church of England following the Low Church tradition, focusing on the Protestant and evangelical aspects of the Anglican heritage.


church rate

church rate (countable and uncountable, plural church rates)

The abolition of church rate would endanger the existence of tithes, because whatever differences there may be between them in point of law and in point of fact, the difference with regard to conscience is the same.

1859, The Present State of the Church Rate Question Exhibited […], page 13:

I venture to say that no man of common sense and candour can read that evidence carefully, without having any prejudices he may have entertained against the good old English Custom of Church-rates utterly done away.

1860 January 29, Thomas Thorp, Church-Rates: A Village Sermon […], published 1861, page 13:

As to the amount and money value of Church Rate, that really is not worth contending about. A paltry average of two-pence in the pound!

1861, Francis Whaley Harper, Dialogues on National Church and National Church Rate, page 20:

A tax raised by certain English parishes primarily for the maintenance of buildings of the Church of England, now voluntary but formerly levied on all residents regardless of denomination.


Evangelion

/ɪvɐnd͡ʒˈɛli͡ən/

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).


kapparot

/kˈæpɐɹˌɑːt/

(Judaism) A customary atonement ritual practised by Orthodox Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur, involving the waving of money or a chicken over a person's head before it is donated to charity or to feed the hungry.


Shehecheyanu

(Judaism) A Jewish prayer to express gratitude for special occasions and new experiences.


shtadlanut

(Judaism, historical) The work of a shtadlan; intercession on behalf of a local European Jewish community.


shtadlan

shtadlan (plural shtadlans or shtadlanim)

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Hebrew שַׁדְלָ

(Judaism, historical) An intercessor for a local European Jewish community on behalf of the authorities.


alternative episcopal oversight

en-noun

alternative episcopal oversight (uncountable)

Near-synonym: extended episcopal care

Alternative episcopal oversight breaks this strong link between the local bishop and the geographical diocese; moreover, it undermines the bishop as a symbol of unity for the local church.

2018, Christopher Craig Brittain, Andrew McKinnon, The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads: The Crises of a Global Church, →ISBN, page 184:

provincial episcopal visitor
provincial episcopal visitor

(Anglicanism) A system allowing parishes that reject the theological permissibility of the ordination or consecration of women to receive ministration from a bishop other than that of their respective geographical diocese, known as a provincial episcopal visitor or “flying bishop”.


higher criticism

Calque of German höhere Kritik. Originally in contrast to lower criticism (now dated), i.e. textual criticism, the reconstruction of the text itself.

historical criticism
historical criticism#English

Synonym of historical criticism (“study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources”).


historical criticism

Concerning the narratives of Daniel, historical criticism has given its primary energy to the placement of the narratives in the Maccabean crisis of the second century, far away from the sixth century when its reported events purportedly happened.

2016, Walter Brueggemann, edited by K. C. Hanson, Social Criticism and Social Vision in Ancient Israel, →ISBN, page 29:

The systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources.

critique historique

study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources


Jalsa Salana

Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ سَالَانَہ (jalsah sālānah, “annual convention”).

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جَلْسَہ سَالَانَہ

More than 40,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community descended on East Worldham yesterday (Friday) for the start of Jalsa Salana UK.

2023 July 29, Paul Coates, “Jalsa Salana UK sets a new record attendance at East Worldham”, in Farnham Herald, archived from the original on 2023-07-29:

The three-day Jalsa Salana usually attracts 35,000 people from around the world but this year it has been scaled back to 4,000 invited guests each day.

2021 August 7, “Jalsa Salana: Thousands head to Alton farm religious gathering”, in BBC News:

With their Khalifa taking up permanent residence in the United Kingdom in 1984, the Ahmadi have held their Jalsa Salana [International Assembly], usually in the last week of July, each year, at this location.

2008, Simon Ross Valentine, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at : history, belief, practice, →ISBN, page 77:

(Ahmadiyya) the Jalsa Salana – an annual convention of the community.


Jalsa

Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ (jalsa, “gathering”).


Simhamukha

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिंहमुख (siṃhamukha).

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(Tibetan Buddhism) A wisdom dakini of the Dzogchen tradition.


goddexx

You can also ask the moon, like any goddexx, god, or goddess, what it wants or what it would like.

2020, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, The Moon Book: Lunar Magic to Change Your Life, unnumbered page:

Whether you pray to a god, goddess, goddexx, or not, spirituality can play a significant role in your vaginal and pelvic well-being.

2020, Taq Kaur Bhandal, Self-Care Down There: From Menstrual Cups and Moisturizers to Body Positivity and Brazilian Wax, a Guide to Your Vagina's Well-Being, page 78:

And instead of bringing shame to it, we should be bringing compassion and—goddexx forbid!—some humor to our erotic lives.

2021, Lucie Field, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, unnumbered page:

(neologism) Alternative spelling of goddex.


Marprelate

(often attributive) A pseudonym used in the later 16th century by a satirist, or group of satirists, who attacked the Anglican episcopacy.


Dvapara Yuga

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit द्वापरयुग (dvāparayuga, “age of two”), द्वापर (dvāpara, “two”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”).

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(Hinduism) The third of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 864,000 years.


Friend of God

(Christianity, historical) A member of a medieval mystical group of ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church.


original depravity

(Christianity, dated) Synonym of original sin.


plain speech

Another element of the “plain speech” is the use of such terms as “farewell” for “good day”—which is declared to be untruthful on bad days!

1907, Warren Hugh Wilson, Quaker Hill: A Sociological Study, page 35:

(Quakerism) A distinctive Quaker dialect of English, reformed on religious grounds and characterized by features such as use of the pronoun “thou” and numerical names for months and days of the week.


milk before meat

From 1 Corinthians 3:2, in Koine Greek ἐπότισα γάλα οὐ βρῶμα (epótisa gála ou brôma, “I gave you milk, not meat [or solid food]”), and in a Mormon context Doctrine and Covenants 19:22: “For they cannot bear meat now, but milk they must receive”. In the form milk before meat, first attested in the early 20th century.

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ἐπότισα γάλα οὐ βρῶμα

I gave you milk, not meat 􂀿or solid food􂁀

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Under the pretext of giving the world “milk before meat,” the Utah Mormons have tried to justify themselves in the living of an open lie—they were actually practicing polygamy secretly and denying it publicly.

1919, William Earl La Rue, The Foundations of Mormonism: A Study of the Fundamental Facts in the History and Doctrines of the Mormons from Original Sources, page 195:

They are not to present lessons in calculus to students who must first learn arithmetic; they are not to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom until people believe the first principles: they are to give milk before meat.

1980, Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah: From Bethlehem to Calvary, volume 2; republished as Rulon T. Burton, editor, We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1994, D-667, page 853:

Paul said we should give milk before meat; systematic teaching is effective as long as we are careful to give both the milk and the meat honestly and correctly.

1986, Dennis L. Lythgoe, The Sensitive Leader, page 121:

So why is it that some people feel that they must know everything right away concerning religion, and yet in daily life they well understand and accept that it’s milk before meat?

2006, Jayne P. Bowers, Musings of a Missionary Mom, →ISBN, page 118:

(chiefly Mormonism) Ideas or doctrines that are simpler or easier to accept (should be taught) before more difficult ones.


Priestly

A habitational surname from Old English.