Priestly

en-adj

Priestly (not generally comparable, comparative more Priestly, superlative most Priestly)

more Priestly (comparative)
most Priestly (superlative)

Semantic loan from German priesterlich and Priesterschrift (“Priestly source”, literally “priest document”), so called because of the reconstructed source’s emphasis on cultic issues. See priestly.

Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]

1971, Norman Habel, Literary Criticism of the Old Testament, →ISBN, page 79:

Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.

2004, Steven L. McKenzie, Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: I & II Chronicles, →ISBN, page 27:

Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua.

2005 [2000], Reinhard G. Kratz, translated by John Bowden, The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament, →ISBN, page 110:

documentary hypothesis
documentary hypothesis

(history) Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.


words of institution

en-proper noun

the words of institution pl (plural only)

the words of institution (canonical plural)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin verba īnstitūtiōnis, i.e. the words by which Jesus instituted, or established, the sacrament.

calque

(Christianity) The pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrant(s) at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.


philosophical sin

en-noun

philosophical sin (countable and uncountable, plural philosophical sins)

Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum, coined around 1600.

der

Coordinate term: theological sin

For, as incompletely wrong acts, such as philosophical sins, or even theological venial sins,—say, of irreligion or disobedience to God,—render one liable to be punished, but not with the eternal loss of the last end; so it may be that there is a sufficient reward for imperfectly good acts, which, whether it is eternal or only temporary, is something different from the eternal enjoyment of the Infinite Good.

1910, Walter McDonald, The Principles of Moral Science, page 145:

(Christianity, dated) Sin that is said to contravene the natural moral order rather than offending God directly, for example because the sinner is ignorant of divine law or does not think of God in the act.


offensive to pious ears

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.

calque

And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”

1910, William John Sparrow-Simpson, Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility, page 121:

It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”

1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252:

An investigatory commission in Oxford in 1378 declared that some of Wycliffe’s criticism were not incorrect in se but could be offensive to pious ears.

2009, Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”, in Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), →ISBN, page 317:

(Roman Catholicism) Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.


Shield of David

Synonym of Star of David (“Jewish symbol”)


Menologion

The Menologion of Basil II is an important work for understanding the medieval Byzantine church.

Synonym of Menologium, particularly in Byzantine, Greek, and Eastern Orthodox contexts.


menologion

en-noun

menologion (plural menologions or menologia)

From Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ο- (-o-, “-o-”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ion: forming related nouns”). Doublet of menologe, menologium, and menology. See horologion.

doublet

In order to make a preliminary study of the text of the menologion on the basis of evidence from the MSS accessible, the area of greatest uniformity was sought.

1936, Morgan Ward Redus, The Text of the Major Festivals on the Menologion in the Greek Gospel Lectionary, Studies in the Lectionary Text of the Greek New Testiment, Vol. II, No. 2

Synonym of menologium, particularly in Greek, Byzantine, and Eastern Orthodox contexts.


menologium

en-noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

ménologe

a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts

menology

chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact

A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and

(Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.

menaion

(Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.

synaxarium

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.

(Roman Catholicism, often capitalized) A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.

(Roman Catholicism, uncommon, often capitalized) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.


Joktan

en-proper noun

Joktan (countable and uncountable, plural Joktans)


Hagarene

From Middle English Agarene, from Medieval Latin Agarēnus. By surface analysis, Hagar + -ene. From the belief that Arabs are descendants of Hagar and Abraham.

(archaic or historical) Of or pertaining to (early) Arab Muslims.


Porkistani

Blend of pork + Pakistani, or from Porkistan + -i.

(India, derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Pakistani.


Krishnaism

(religion) Any of various independent Hindu traditions based around the devotion to Krishna.


Sukhavati

(Buddhism) The pure land of Amitābha in Mahayana Buddhism.


biritual

(Christianity) Alternative form of bi-ritual


pewdom

[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]

1879, Authorised Report of the Church Congress, page 113:

[…] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.

1886, The Parliamentary Debates, page 939:

(Christianity, historical) The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.


phongyi

The death of a Ponghee or president of a kyoung is regarded as a great event, and the funeral is conducted with pomp and ceremony. The body, being emboweled, and its juices pressed out, is filled with honey.

1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China […] :


Latis

Either of two Celtic deities (a god and goddess) worshipped in Roman Britain.


Last Gospel

The prologue of the Gospel of John (John 1:1–14) when read as part of the concluding rites in the Ordinariate and the Extraordinary forms of the Mass in the Catholic Church.


Abelardian

of or relating to Peter Abelard, or his philosophy.


trail hitter

In the final count, Billy Sunday's 1918 Chicago revival attracted 49,165 converted trail-hitters, placing the city third, behind New York and Boston, in the number of revival converts.

2013, Thekla Ellen Joiner, Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920, page 219:

(informal) One who converts to a revivalist form of Christianity.


se-baptism

(Christianity) Baptism carried out by and for oneself.


Tridentine Mass

See Tridentine: the liturgy of this Mass was made uniform after the Council of Trent.

Traditional Latin Mass
Traditional Latin Mass#English

Synonym of Traditional Latin Mass (“form of the Mass general before the Second Vatican Council”)


Tridentine Mass

en-noun

Tridentine Mass (plural Tridentine Masses)

Synonym of Traditional Latin Mass (“a Mass celebrated in this form”)


ner tamid

(Judaism) An "eternal lamp" found within Jewish synagogues, illuminating the area before or near the Torah ark.


qere perpetuum

From Latin perpetuus (“perpetual”). See qere.

אֲדוֹנָי אדוני#Hebrew

יהוה יהוה#Hebrew

In the liturgical use of the Tanakh, a fixed substitution that is always expected when a certain written word is read out, most notably אֲדוֹנָי (ăḏônāy, literally “my Lord(s)”) for יהוה (YHVH), the name of God; an indication of such a substitution.


father confessor

father confessor (plural father confessors)

(Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution; a confessor.


Memorare

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.

bor+

With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.

2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”


spiritual wifery

It seems he knew nothing of spiritual wifery before he came here. I suggested to him that, after such a discourse from Brigham, he was in duty bound to take two or three wives, at least.

1855 September, [Cornelia Ferris], “Life Among the Mormons”, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine […], volume 6, number 33, page 265:

In it he stated his conviction that Bennett had not taught polygamy or spiritual wifery, and his belief that the church leaders at Voree were set “like flint” against spiritual wifery in every form.

1930, Milo Milton Quaife, The Kingdom of Saint James: A Narrative of the Mormons, page 97:

It is more than likely that the Rhode Island law against breaches of marriage covenants was a direct response to the rapid spread of spiritual wifery in this period.

1974, William G. McLoughlin, “Free Love, Immortalism, and Perfectionism in Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1748–1768”, in Rhode Island History, volume 33, page 70:

(chiefly Mormonism, often derogatory) Polygyny; plural marriage.


etoki

Borrowed from Japanese 絵解き (e toki, literally “painting explanation”).

(Buddhism) The practice of explaining a religious concept using an emaki.


Gadianton

Within the narrative of the Book of Helaman, from Gadianton, an ancient conspirator against the Nephite judges.

What made the Gadiantons serious ideological opponents of republicanism rather than mere thugs were their political ambitions. Cynics have called government “organized theft,” and the Gadiantons took this principle to its logical extreme.

1989, Kenneth H. Winn, Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830–1846, →ISBN, page 33:

Like Gadiantons of old, corporate interests and their secret combinations (for what is more secret than hidden moneyed influence outside of the channels of public transparency?) are even now seeking to overturn democracy and obstruct the will of the people.

2013, Boyd Jay Petersen, Dead Wood and Rushing Water: Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family, page 150:

(Mormonism, also attributive) A member of various criminal secret societies described in the Book of Mormon.


golden plates

(Mormonism) The plates of wrought gold said to have been discovered by Joseph Smith at the hill Cumorah in Palmyra, New York, and to have served as the source of the Book of Mormon.


NASB

New American Standard Bible
w:New American Standard Bible

(biblical) Initialism of New American Standard Bible.


O/W

WENDELL REYNOLDS then mounted the rostrum and made the audience there and then write down all their O/Ws (overts and withholds, or sins to use religious terminology).

1986, Stewart Lamont, Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology, →ISBN, page 100:

In confessional rituals, a parishioner must declare his O/Ws -- "overts and withholds" -- immoral acts that include harmful, undisclosed transgressions against Scientology.

1998 December 6, Richard Lei, “The Life & Death of a Scientologist”, in The Washington Post:

These courses were introductions, respectively, to […] O/W (Overt/Withhold) Write-Ups, and cycles of action (start, change, stop).

2017, Donald A. Westbrook, “Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions”, in James R. Lewis, Kjersti Hellesøy, editors, Handbook of Scientology, →ISBN, page 24, note 5:

The nature of the O/W was not really important at that time, only that I felt guilt.

2022, Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, →ISBN, page 10:

(Scientology) Initialism of overt/withhold.


law of correspondence

Originally after the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. See correspondence.

And we look about us, and see what kind of things the law of correspondence has filled the world with. For we know that the things of this world are such as they are, that they may correspond with the things of our souls.

1839, Theophilus Parsons, Sunday Lessons for the Instruction of Children of the New Church in Schools or at Home, pages 103–4:

In the light of these disclosures we see that all the splendid habitations and magnificent palaces of heaven are but pictorial representations, under the law of correspondence, of the ruling loves of the angels.

1885, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Heaven Revealed: Being a Popular Representation of Swedenborg’s Disclosures About Heaven […], 4th edition, page 243:

Corroborating the theosophic law of correspondence, Duby declares that the first aspect of the “system,” was a “coherence between heaven and earth, two parts of one homogeneous world, built to a single plan and hence reciprocally related.”

1997, William W. Quinn, Jr., The Only Tradition, →ISBN, page 215:

At almost every turn the heavenly world informed, illuminated, and affected the earthly world and vice versa, what some term the metaphysical law of correspondence.

[2012, Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death, →ISBN, page 11:

(theology, hermeticism) The principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.

Not to be confused with correspondence principle


gospel side

Traditionally, the gospel is read from this side.

(religion) The left side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.


Reorganite

The Reorganites are all haters; they hate Utah and the Utah Mormons; they will do most anything to injure the state of Utah.

c. 1907, V. S. Peet, Polygamy: From a Non-Mormon Viewpoint, 2nd edition, page 13:

By 1878, the Reorganites had rejected Joseph’s doctrine on the plurality of gods.

2012, Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography, →ISBN, page 81:

(Mormonism, dated, often derogatory) A member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (RLDS Church; since 2001 the Community of Christ).


Reorganite

By 1894 […] according to their own claims, the Reorganite people had not been able to induce as many as a thousand original church members to join their cult.

1958, Bruce R. McConkie, “Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”, in Mormon Doctrine, 1st edition, page 566:

(Mormonism, dated, often derogatory) Pertaining to the RLDS Church or Community of Christ.


Gauri

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


maximism

As to minimism and maximism — microscopic and telescopic tendencies — the cosmical laws are themselves of such vast range that we should naturally expect the greatest embodiments to have occurred first, as in the case of a thousand Suns and Jupiters they manifestly did.

1872, Henry Thomas Braithwaite, Esse and posse, page 56:

[…] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.

1912, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 72, page 70:

[…] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

The monks' practice of "eschatological maximism ” did not make them a group apart from the rest of the Church .

1966, Cistercian Studies - Volume 24, page 179:

(theology) A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.


idiorrhythmism

(Christianity) An idiorrhythmic lifestyle.


dance out

en-verb

dance out (third-person singular simple present dances out, present participle dancing out, simple past and past participle danced out)

dances out (present singular third-person)
dancing out (participle present)
danced out (participle past)
danced out (past)

But this much all men know, that most people say of those who reveal the mysteries, that they "dance them out."

1893, Andrew Lang, Custom and Myth, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 42:

Hence arose the expression - whose meaning has been much discussed by the learned - "to dance out (ἐζορκείσθαι) a mystery." Lucian, in a much-quoted passage, observes: "You cannot find a single ancient mystery in which there is not dancing...and this much all men know, that most people say of the revealers of the mysteries that they 'dance them out.'" Andrew Lang, commenting on this passage, continues: "Clement of Alexandria uses the same term when speaking of his own 'appalling revelations.' So closely connected are mysteries with dancing among savages that when Mr. Orpen asked Qing, the Bushman hunter, about some doctrines in which Qing was not initiated, he said: 'Only the initiated men of that dance know these things.' To 'dance' this or that means to be acquainted with this or that myth, which is represented in a dance or ballet d'action.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 169:

The child explores as many ways to dance out each item as they can.

2005, Frances Reed, Dance and Drama Bites for Seniors: Enriching the Everyday Curriculum with Dance, London: Essential Resources, page 45:

Now ask them to dance out different emotions.

2009, Heather Clark, Dance As the Spirit Moves: A Practical to Worship and Dance, Destiny Image Publishers:

People were to dance for a better understanding on decisions. They were supposed to dance out any ruptures or quarrels. It was another way of being together, of expressing the tribe and each other.

2011, Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep: A Novel, PM Press:

(religion) To reveal (a mystery) through dance; to express (something) by dancing; to act out in dance.


Micaiah

From מִיכַיְהוּ (mīḵāyᵊhū, “who is like Yahweh”). The name Micah is a shortened form, such as in the book of the Bible (Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh)) or the Ephraimite meantioned in Judges 17-18.

(biblical) A prophet in the court of King Ahab and possibly a disciple of Elijah in the Old Testament of the Bible in 1 Kings 22.


Hretha

Learned borrowing from Old English *Hrēþe.

lbor

And now I stand before you as a man who would wish to serve you as warrior at the sword-play. For I have no other use. The words of the goddess Hretha I can hear no more.

1993, C. P. R. Tisdale, Month of Swallows: Northumbria, England, A.D. 626–633, Edinburgh: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 137:

Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig.

2009, Marilyn Dunn, The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife, Continuum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 63:

The name and image of the Saxon pagan goddess Hretha on Caden’s own shield had been beaten nearly into oblivion.

2011, Linda Windsor, Thief (The Brides of Alba), Colorado Springs, Colo.: David C Cook, →ISBN, page 27:

“We ought to build a shrine to the Goddess Hretha in this place.”

2013, Yanina Stachura, “Northern Britain, AD 495”, in The Sword and the Passion, North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, page 1:

In De Temporum Ratione, Bede states that March was called Hrethmonath by the Anglo-Saxons because they made sacrifices to the Goddess Hretha then. Hretha means fame or honour, which suggests Hretha was a warrior like Mars, who gives us the modern name March. Hrethmonath marks the end of winter, so Hretha could be seen as the Goddess who battles and defeats winter.

2017, Lucya Starza, editor, Every Day Magic – A Pagan Book of Days: 366 Magical Ways to Observe the Cycle of the Year, Winchester: Moon Books, →ISBN, page 29:


Ash'arite

(Islam) A disciple of the Sunni Islamic school of Ash'arism.


Islamomisia

From Islamo- + -misia, coined as an alternative to Islamophobia.

The problems in this country that feed white supremacy—racism, patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, misogyny, homomisia, transmisia, Islammisia,^([sic]) xenomisia—are systemic.

2020 November 10, F.I. Goldhaber, “Meet the New Boss … Same As the Old Boss”, in The Big Smoke, archived from the original on 2023-09-27:


continuist

(Christianity) One who believes in continuationism.


giyoret

Coordinate term: ger


JMJ

(Christianity) Initialism of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.


Ashkephardi

You, my friend, are a Sephardi, an Ashkenazi boundary crosser, the multicultural Ashkephardi, an ally to all … or just someone with a darn good vocabulary and possibly a belly to boot!

2008, Lisa Alcalay Klug, Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

My children, unlike me, my parents and grandparents, are not fully Sephardi. As their father is an Ashkenazi Jew, Zara and Asher are ‘Ashkephardi’: part Sephardi, part Ashkenazi.

2012, Elana Benjamin, My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi, Port Campbell Press, →ISBN, page 273:

Max Guttman (ze/zir/zirs) is a non-binary transgender and Ashkephardi Jewish educator, artist and writer.

2019, Freiya Benson, editor, Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 288:

(Judaism, rare) Being both Ashkenazi and Sephardi simultaneously.


chavurah

en-noun

chavurah (plural chavurahs or chavurot or chavuroth)

chavurahs (plural)
chavurot (plural)
chavuroth (plural)

Borrowed from Hebrew חֲבוּרָה (khavurá, “fellowship”).

(Judaism) A small group of like-minded Jews who assemble for prayer, learning, etc.


Advent candle

(Christianity) A candle marked with the days of December up to Christmas Eve.


Maariv

bor

Hebrew מַעֲרִיב

(Judaism) A Jewish prayer service held in the evening or at night.


Sarkic

en-adj

Sarkic (comparative more Sarkic, superlative most Sarkic)

more Sarkic (comparative)
most Sarkic (superlative)

(Gnosticism) the lowest state of human thought; the fleshly, instinct-driven level; neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic).


sarkic

sarkic (comparative more sarkic, superlative most sarkic)

more sarkic (comparative)
most sarkic (superlative)

(Gnosticism) designating the lowest level of human thought; focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.


Pokrova

Borrowed from Ukrainian Покрова (Pokrova) or Russian Покров (Pokrov).

Intercession of the Theotokos (feast on 14 October)


replacement theology

en-noun

replacement theology (plural replacement theologies)

(Christianity) Synonym of supersessionism


Church Age

The New Testament Church is a parenthetical institution designed to fill the gap between the ancient kingdom of Israel and a more glorious future kingdom of the same order.¹⁰ The primary mission of the Church is not to evangelize the world, but simply to take out from among the Gentiles a limited number of people for Christs name.¹¹ When this number has been reached, the church age will come to a sudden close, and national Israel will come back into view as God’s representative and evangelistic people.¹²

1957, Jesse Wilson Hodges, “A General View of Dispensationalism”, in Christ's Kingdom and Coming with an Analysis of Dispensationalism (Religion), Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 35:

Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists. They offered a systemic view of history in which biblical prophecies were thought to refer to real historical events.[…]They regarded the present era—the Church age—as a sort of parentheses and insisted, contra the liberals and postmillennialists, that Christ's kingdom was wholly in the future, supernatural in origin, and discontinuous with the history of the present.

2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-29:

Each weeknight, Camping would transmit his own biblical interpretations in a quivery monotone, clutching a worn Bible as he took listeners’ calls. He first predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994 and when it did not, Camping said it was off because of a mathematical error. Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age,” a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.

2013 December 17, “US doomsday minister Harold Camping dead at 92”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

Meade said in an email to the Independent Mail that it would take a book, or a supercomputer, or God, to explain his astronomical cryptography calculations but they build on the eclipse that happened in August along with certain numbers that appear in the Bible.
He cautioned that Sept. 23 is the end of the "Church Age" and is a spiritual sign but that later events in October would escalate with Oct. 21 being "the final date."

2017 September 19, Mike Ellis, “It's not the end of the world this weekend”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

Church Age The time period beginning on the day of Pentecost A.D. 30 and ending with the Rapture (John 14—17, Acts—Jude; Rev. 2—3). Synonyms: Age of the Royal Family; Dispensation of the Church. This is the dispensation initiated by God to form Christ’s royal family on earth, to glorify the physically absent King of kings, and to prepare a generation of spiritual nobility to rule with Christ during the future Millennium (Eph. 1:5–6, 22–23; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 2:26; 3:21; 19:16).[…]
With the Church Age ended, the time of tribulation on earth will begin.

2022, R. B. Thieme, Jr., “Church Age”, in Thieme's Bible Doctrine Dictionary, First edition (Religion), Houston, TX: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2023-01-14, pages 37, 38:

But I think the key is that for someone like Darby who believed in seven dispensations, which is the most common number, we currently live in the sixth dispensation, or the dispensation of grace or sometimes called the Church Age, which is a pretty unique dispensation. Among the seven dispensations, the other six are God really working through the people of Israel to redeem the world, to make right what was put wrong. But in the Church Age, He is working with the church, with the mystery of the Old Testament. And so a lot of the rules that sort of govern God's relationship with humanity during those other ages have a slightly different play in the Church Age.

2023 August 23, Daniel Hummel, 18:55 from the start, in ‘The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism’ — A Conversation with Daniel Hummel, Albert Mohler, archived from the original on 2023-08-26:

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles

(Christianity, under dispensationalism) The current period or dispensation of human history that begins with events in the Acts of the Apostles and ends at the future Tribulation.


Free Kirk

(religion, Scotland) The Free Church of Scotland, an evangelical presbyterian church formed in 1843 when its founders withdrew from the Church of Scotland.


mizpah

(biblical) The pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban as a figurative watchtower to mark their separation.


Green Christmas

Little Christmas
Little Christmas#English


New Israel

new religious movement
new religious movement

(Christianity) A new religious movement that grew in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Transitus

From Latin trānsitus (“passage, crossing”).

(Christianity) The time of passage through death to eternal life.


Alphonsian

Four characteristics of nineteenth-century European moral theology stand out—the dominance of the manualist tradition, the general acceptance of the Alphonsian approach, a growing ultramontanism stressing the primacy and central role of the papacy in the Church, […]

2008, Charles E. Curran, “The Nineteenth Century”, in Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

(Catholicism) Of or relating to Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Italian Catholic bishop, writer, and theologian.


combinationalism

(chiefly theology) The belief that a combination of different viewpoints or approaches should be applied.


communionism

(Christianity) The practice of observing Holy Communion.


communionable

en-adj

communionable (comparative more communionable, superlative most communionable)

more communionable (comparative)
most communionable (superlative)

(religion) Able or willing to take part in communion.


heteroousianism

(Christianity) The belief that the first and second persons of the Trinity have different essence or substance.


extraordinary magisterium

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

That part of the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church (or of the pope) which derives from ecumenical councils or ex cathedra pronouncements (collectively called solemn judgements).


ordinary magisterium

en-noun

ordinary magisterium (usually uncountable, plural ordinary magisteria)

extraordinary magisterium
extraordinary magisterium

That part of the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church (or of the pope, bishops, etc.) which does not derive from ecumenical councils or ex cathedra pronouncements (collectively called solemn judgements and comprising the extraordinary magisterium).


lake of fire

These thousand years are followed by the last times of the world, the letting loose of Satan, who gathers together Gog and Magog, and is thrown to the beast and false prophet in the lake of fire. Now Satan's accusing the saints in heaven, his rage on earth, his imprisonment in the abyss, his seducing Gog and Magog, and being cast into the lake of fire, evidently succeed each other.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 722:

The Garlands and the other missionaries have been teaching Ataiba about Papaguatsu -- God, the Great Father; about a place called God's camp, where the believers go when they die; about the other place -- the eternal lake of fire.[…]
"I'm not scared of anyone, just the Lord," Ataiba says afterward. "If I don't obey Him, He'll punish me. This they have shown me from the Bible." He looks up, squinting hard, pondering this new world view. "In the jungle, I was bad. No one had shown me the Bible, so I shot at people with arrows. Now, the Son of the Chief has pardoned me. I want God to take me to the sky. I don't want to suffer in the lake of fire."

1992 February 23, Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero, “Accidents of History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Section 6, page 38:

"My concern here is the temptation to make hell a state of mind, to psychologize hell," said Mohler. "As attractive as that may be to the modern mind, that is not the hell of the Bible. Jesus himself spoke of hell as a lake of fire, where the worms would not die and the fire would not be quenched. It's all very graphic."

1999 August 17, Hanna Rosin, quoting R. Albert Mohler Jr., “Pope's Vision of Heaven, Hell Riles Evangelicals”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

The reality which is expected is the justice of God judging unbeliever reversionists, both Jews and Gentiles, and sending them to the Lake of Fire.

2012, D.A. Miller, A Theological Study of The Book of Romans, →ISBN, page 86:

She raised eyebrows by not taking major issue with comments by some of her candidates, including one who said gay people would be subjected to a lake of fire on judgment day and another who said that he would be able to speak more effectively to all ethnic groups because he is Caucasian.

2012 April 23, Jeffrey Jones, Scott Haggett, “UPDATE 2-Alberta Conservatives defy polls, win another vote”, in Eric Walsh, David Brunnstrom, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-16, INTEGRATED OIL & GAS:

Those who reject God, and Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, will face eternal damnation in hell and the lake of fire. Repent, or face judgment.

2018 September 24, Manuel Ybarra Jr., “Letter: America lost its love for God”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-26, Opinion:

(Christianity) A place where evildoers are sent in the afterlife; hell.


Islamsterdam

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The city of Amsterdam, with regard to its population of Muslims and other immigrants.


Devasena

Borrowed from Sanskrit देवसेना (devasenā).


Ayyappan

(Hinduism) The Hindu god of righteousness and celibacy, popular in South India.


Parashurama

Transliteration of Sanskrit परशुराम (paraśurāma).


Dashavatara

Borrowed from Sanskrit दशावतार (daśāvatāra).


Millennial Dawnist

en-noun

Millennial Dawnist (plural Millennial Dawnists)

From Millennial Dawn (1886), a six-volume Bible textbook series associated with the movement, + -ist.

(Christianity) A member of the Bible Student movement.


charagma

Then I beheld thrones and those who sat upon them, and judgment was granted to them. And I beheld the souls of all those whose heads had been hacked off with axes because of their witness to Jesus and the word of God. These souls are the ones who never worshipped the Beast or his idol, nor did they accept the puncture mark—the charagma—on their foreheads or on their hands. These souls lived and reigned with Christ for the millennium.

2003 [around 100 CE], “Chapter Twenty”, in Mark B. Arey, Philemon D. Sevastiades, transl., edited by Patra McSharry Sevastiades, Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation (The Millennium Translation Project), Oradell, NJ: Dayspring Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 62-63:

(formal) A mark or marking, especially (theology) the mark of the beast.


jazakallah

Borrowed from Arabic جَزَاكَ ٱللّٰهُ (jazāka llāhu).

bor+

جَزَاكَ ٱللّٰهُ


Letter of Jeremiah

A deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament, attributed to Jeremiah and addressed to the Jews who were about to be carried away as captives to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.


tathagata

/təˈtɑːɡətə/

Borrowed from Sanskrit तथागत (tathāgata).

(Buddhism) A term of address to a buddha.


Naphtalite

A descendant of Naphtali, sixth son of Jacob.

A descendant or member of the tribe of Naphtali.


Naphtalite

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

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


Gog and Magog

/ˈɡɒɡ ɛnd ˈmeɪɡɒɡ/

From the book of Ezekiel and the book of Revelation; see quotation below. Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹג (gôḡ) and מָגוֹג (māḡôḡ).

Gog, a prince who attacks Israel in the book of Ezekiel, and the nation he leads, Magog.

And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall goe out to deceiue the nations which are in the foure quarters of the earth, Gog & Magog, to gather them together to battell: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 20:7–8:

When we’re talking about “Gog and Magog” we’re talking about a leader in the land of Russia. Note that 500 years from now, if Christ delays, “Gog and Magog” from the North (Russia) will have another name that fits another time.

2022 February 28, Roger Barrier, “Who are Gog and Magog today?”, in Crosswalk:

Kings or nations prophesied in the book of Revelations to battle the Christian Church.


JAIS

Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor
Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor#Malay

(Malaysia, Islam) Initialism of Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“Islamic Religious Department of Selangor, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAWI

Islamic law enforcement agency in Kuala Lumpur


jump hump

en-verb

jump hump (third-person singular simple present jump humps, present participle jump humping, simple past and past participle jump humped)

jump humps (present singular third-person)
jump humping (participle present)
jump humped (participle past)
jump humped (past)

From jump + hump, as a form of reduplication.

(slang, chiefly Mormonism) To soak (have penetrative sex without hip thrusting), typically on a bed, while another person repeatedly jumps close by so as to cause the penis to move back and forth inside the vagina.


Azharot

From Hebrew אזהרות (literally “exhortations”).

bor

(Judaism) Didactic liturgical poems on, or versifications of, the 613 commandments in rabbinical enumeration.


aneristic

en-adj

aneristic (comparative more aneristic, superlative most aneristic)

more aneristic (comparative)
most aneristic (superlative)

(Discordianism) Not eristic; relating to order rather than chaos.


meshummad

en-noun

meshummad (plural meshummads or meshummadim)

meshummads (plural)
meshummadim (plural)


Gadite

A descendant of Gad, seventh son of Jacob.


Gadite

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


ypakoë

/ˌuːpəkəʊˈiː/

Borrowed from Greek υπακοή (ypakoḯ), from Ancient Greek ὑπακοή (hupakoḗ).

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A troparion chanted at orthros and the midnight office on Sundays and the Great Feasts throughout the liturgical year, which emphasizes the theme of being sent to proclaim the gospel.


Third Heaven

Yet after all that is here, or elſewhere ſaid ; for the ſcriptures greatly abound with the moſt grand, lofty, and ſublime metaphors, when the writers thereof would convey into our minds, ſome idea of that raviſhing delight, and happineſs to be enjoyed, with the amazing excellence and glory of the future ſtate, which a merciful and gracious God hath in reſerve for the righteous : Yet, I ſay, we find it is but a very imperfect deſcription, or faint reſemblance of what it really is : for the great apoſtle St. Paul, who had been caught up into Paradiſe, or the third heaven ; where he heard ſuch unſpeakable words, that the powers and faculties of which he was poſſeſſed, were not capable of uttering, or conveying them to the mind of others; he aſſures us, that eye hath not ſeen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him: ſo that at beſt we ſee but in part, as it were thro' a glaſs darkly ; and we know but in part, for the apoſtles could propheſy, or teach but in part; but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part ſhall be done away.

1772, Paradise Regained: Or The Scripture Account of The Glorious Millennium, &c. (Religion), London: J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row, and W. Daven-Hill, in Cornhill, London, →OCLC, page 36:

So John is caught up to the third heaven; he sees the throne with the Lord on it, and it is surrounded by twenty-four elders on thrones, and four beasts (cherubims) around the throne; it’s a wild scene. But, it is so; the problem, of course, is to believe it, and receive it.
Before going on and finishing Revelation 4, we should understand that John was "caught up" to a real, literal place in the universe, and that place is up there now. The scripture has much to say about this “dwelling place” of God, its location, distance, size, nature, and inhabitants, and it is very clearly defined. Since the revelation on this place is far in advance over the latest scientific findings of Cape Kennedy, or Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, let us study the verses which relate to it; it is the abode of “God the Father” in the third heaven, on the throne, above the sea of glass northward.

1970, Peter S. Ruckman, “Revelation Chapter 4”, in The Book of Revelation (The Bible Believer's Commentary Series) (Religion), Pensacola, FL: Pensacola Bible Press, →OCLC, page 111:

"Send us a revival, Lord," he said, quoting another evangelist, John Wesley. "Defects and all."
The train conductor from Mobile, Mr. Busby, sinks into a pew. He is asked if he got what he came for, and he just nods his head. Here he feels as if he stands "in the third heaven, the holy holy," he said.

1997 May 27, Rick Bragg, quoting Devon Busby, “In Florida, a Revival That Came but Didn't Go”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, Section A, page 1:

The third heaven represents the presence of God. This is where all Christians immediately go when they die. (We will discuss this in detail in chapter 4.) It is sometimes called Paradise—the place where Jesus assured the thief on the cross he would go the moment he died. At some point in his life, Paul was caught up into this third heaven, where he heard “inexpressible words” (2 Cor. 12:4). When most Christians speak of heaven this is the heaven they mean—the one that is “up.” This is the “present heaven” I referred to in the last section.

2017, Robert Jeffress, “Is Heaven a Real Place or Is It a State of Mind?”, in A Place Called Heaven: 10 Surprising Truths about Your Eternal Home (Religion), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:

During his sermon Merritt drew from the scriptural passage at 2 Cor. 12:7-10. His theme was “What is Your Problem?” Merritt explained that the “third heaven” was where God lived and it was where one ascends to if one receives immortality. Yet, he contended, some have problems that may prevent this.

2017 March 31, Arlene Edmonds, “Local churches host Howard choir”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-11-11:

(religion) The abode of God, in some Abrahamic religions.


pacifical letters

(Christianity, historical) Documents recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church.


Manassite

A descendant of Manasseh, elder son of Joseph.


Manassite

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


Thaumas

(Greek mythology) A sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia


counting of the Omer

Calque of Hebrew סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

clq

סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

Calque of Hebrew סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

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


Màasaw

The Hopi god of fire and death and the guardian spirit of the present Fourth World.


shomer shabbos

en-adj

shomer shabbos (comparative more shomer shabbos, superlative most shomer shabbos)

more shomer shabbos (comparative)
most shomer shabbos (superlative)

Borrowed from Yiddish שומר שבת (shomer shabes), Hebrew שׁוֹמֵר שַׁבָּת.

der

שׁוֹמֵר שַׁבָּת

Hebrew שׁוֹמֵר שַׁבָּת

She wouldn't have her phone with her on Saturday because she's shomer shabbos.

Donny: How come you don't roll on Saturday, Walter? / Walter: I'm shomer shabbos.

(Judaism, of a person) observant of the laws of Shabbat.


Seax-Wicca

A denomination of Wicca blended with modernized Anglo-Saxon paganism, founded by Raymond Buckland.


Mincha

From Hebrew מִנחַה (literally “gift, offering”).


Christus crucifixus

The Gentiles would not perfectly relinquish all their Idols; so, they were persuaded to turne the Image of Jupiter with his thunderbolt to Christus crucifixus, and Venus and Cupid to the Madonna and her Babe.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 6:

The crucified Christ; Jesus Christ on the cross.


Dutch Reformed Church

(Christianity, historical) The largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.


Masau'u

(Hopi religion) Alternative spelling of Màasaw


hashkabah

(Judaism) A Sephardic prayer for the dead.


Mercersburg theology

(Christianity) A German-American theological movement that began in the mid-19th century, focusing on the incarnation of Christ.


kvutza

en-noun

kvutza (plural kvutzas or kvutzot or kvutzoth)

kvutzas (plural)
kvutzot (plural)
kvutzoth (plural)

Coordinate term: kibbutz

(Judaism) A Jewish communal settlement, primarily in Israel before it became a modern state.


Hoshana Rabbah

From Hebrew הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּה (literally “Great Supplication”).

bor

הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּה

(Judaism) The seventh day of Sukkot, marked by a special synagogue service in which seven circuits are made by the worshippers with their lulav and etrog while the congregation recites prayers.


Fifth World

After the Fourth World.
The second sense was coined before 13 July 2002 by micropatriologist Cesidio Tallini.

The Fourth World was not satisfactory so First Man led the Beings again upward to the Fifth and present world where again were found pre-existent Beings. From these, by magic, the Fifth World was won.

1956, Robert W. Young, The Navajo Yearbook of Planning in Action, number 5, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, page 189:

A world in a number of American mythologies:

(Navajo mythology) The present world, which the Navajo travelled through four worlds to reach.


gingerbread house

en-noun

gingerbread house (plural gingerbread houses)

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

A novelty confectionery in the shape of a house, with walls, roof and sometimes chimney made of dense, crisp gingerbread, held together with frosting and decorated with candies; popular especially at Christmastime.


Whamageddon

An informal game played during the 24 days before Christmas, in which players try to avoid hearing the popular song "Last Christmas" by Wham!.


Malinalxochitl

The Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions, and insects.


Siqatul Islam

Derived from Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام or ثِقَةُ الْاِسْلَام (siqatu l-islām), from Arabic ثِقَة (ṯiqa) + الإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām).

der

ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

der+

ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

(Shia Islam) a title below ayatollah, one who has explicitly been trusted to narrate fatwas.


Haymanot

From Ge'ez ሃይማኖት (haymanot, “religion, faith”).

bor

(Judaism) the traditions and practices of the Beta Israel community


Adam-ondi-Ahman

Uncertain. Doctrine and Covenants 116 states that "Spring Hill is named by the Lord Adam-ondi-Ahman, because… it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel the prophet."

(Mormonism) A historic site in Daviess County, Missouri, where Adam and Eve are said to have lived after being expelled from the Garden of Eden.


bikkurim

(Judaism, historical) A religious offering of first fruits by the ancient Israelites.


Christmas Adam

Reinterpreting Eve (“evening or day before (another day)”) as the name Eve, and referencing how, in Genesis, Adam came before Eve.

Bob ended up at the discount store on “Christmas Adam,” buying just with creative recipes! about every Nerf gun the store had, plus a shopping cart full of other fun surprises. The evening before, the children had participated in a Christmas music pageant […]

2012 March 6, Michelle Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar, A Love That Multiplies: An Up-Close View of How They Make It Work, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 53:

"Happy Christmas Adam," James greeted him. [...] It was a family custom to call the twenty-third of December Christmas Adam, because it was the day before Christmas Eve, and Adam had come before Eve. Levi nodded to James now, glancing around again. “Happy Christmas Adam to you, too. Is everything all right?” James leaned on the counter[…]

2017 December 1, Regina Scott, His Frontier Christmas Family, Harlequin, →ISBN:

"[…] to the games on on Christmas Adam." Layla's eyes popped open, and she counted in her head. "That's in two days. I haven't done the shopping for the games that are already on my list. Gracious." She sliced the turkey breast[…]

2023 August 22, Regina Walker, Miracle Inn, Regina Walker:

(humorous) The day before Christmas Eve.


Pillaiyar

Borrowed from Tamil பிள்ளையார் (piḷḷaiyār).


Pillayar Suzhi

Borrowed from Tamil பிள்ளையார் சுழி (piḷḷaiyār cuḻi).

பிள்ளையார் சுழி

(Hinduism) a sacred symbol, used by Hindus in South India and Sri Lanka to draw it at beginning of diaries, notebooks, etc. before writing anything new.


inner mission

(religion, chiefly Christianity) Missionary work directed at members of one's own religious group, intended to alleviate hardship and raise the level of religious observance.


Jew-ish

en-adj

Jew-ish (comparative more Jew-ish, superlative most Jew-ish)

more Jew-ish (comparative)
most Jew-ish (superlative)

I'm not exactly Jewish; more like Jew-ish.

The data reveals a group of American Jews who are, well, Jew-ish – an identity that is not only absent of faith, Torah and mitzvot, but also largely absent of anything that matters much at all.

2013 October 9, Leon A. Morris, “Religion Matters: Beware the American 'Cultural Jew'”, in Haaretz, Tel Aviv: Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-25:

(Judaism, colloquial) Identifying as culturally Jewish, but not taking part in religious activities.


eat the bread of idleness

en-verb

eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eat the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)

eat the bread of idleness (present singular third-person)
eating the bread of idleness (participle present)
ate the bread of idleness (past)
eaten the bread of idleness (participle past)

(archaic, obsolete, biblical) To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.


parahaoma

(Zoroastrianism) The juice of the haoma plant.


hakhshara

From Hebrew הַכְשָׁרָה (literally “preparation”).

bor

(Judaism) Zionist training in preparation for emigration to Israel and subsequent life in a kibbutz.


halutziut

(Judaism) The pioneering work of the halutzim.


Glory Be

From the first two words in the English version of this doxology.

I said, ‘Hail Mary, full of grace’ and a whole string of Glory Bes to try and concentrate my mind, but life kept intruding.

1997, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues, London: Black Swan, →ISBN, page 86:

(Catholicism) A doxology to the Trinity, commonly prayed as part of the rosary.


Kidron

(biblical) A Hellenistic city mentioned in the first Book of the Maccabees, tentatively identified with Qatra.


Vajrakilaya

A wrathful form of either Vajrasattva or Vajrapāṇi.


Gurbani

Borrowed from Punjabi ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ (gurbāṇī).

(Sikhism) a term used to refer to compositions by Sikh gurus


hypodeacon

Calque of Russian иподиа́кон (ipodiákon). By surface analysis, hypo- + deacon.

cal

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of subdeacon.


book-bearer

(Christianity) A person who carries a religious book to the priest, or to and from the altar, during a religious procession.


book oath

(law, religion, dated) An oath sworn on the Bible.


Book of God

(religion) A holy book, especially the Bible or the Qur'an.


many-eyed

(biblical) Having many eyes, especially in reference to the angels in the Biblical book of Ezekiel.


breadness

(Christianity, dated) The essence or quality of consisting of bread, referring to the sacramental bread in the Eucharist.


bread god

(obsolete, derogatory, religion) The sacramental bread used during the Eucharist.


bread and wine

(Christianity, dated) The two elements used during the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist, regarded as Christ’s body and blood.


bread of wheat

(Christianity, obsolete) An oath or solemnness referring to the sacramental bread of the Eucharist.


Old Michaelmas Day

(religion, Christianity) An older observance of Michaelmas celebrated on October 11, or October 10 according to some sources.


twelvemonth's mind

en-noun

twelvemonth's mind (plural twelvemonths' minds)

(Christianity, obsolete) Synonym of year's mind


year's mind

Variant of earlier Old English ġēarġemynd, from ġēar (“year”) + ġemynd (“memory”).

(Christianity) A requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one year after death or burial.


house church

(Christianity) A group of Christians independent of traditional denominations who regularly gather for worship in private homes.


plain people

(Christianity) Christian groups characterized by separation from the world, simple living, and wearing modest clothing, including head-coverings for women.


Oxford Grouper

(Christianity, historical) A member of the Oxford Group, a Christian organization founded by the American Lutheran minister Frank Buchman in 1921.


phantomism

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) The belief that Christ's corporeal body was an illusion.


shomyo

Learned borrowing from Japanese 声明(しょうみょう) (shōmyō).

ja-r

声明(しょうみょう) (shōmyō)

Since shōmyō began as the chanting of Buddhist texts in India and went from there to China before coming to Japan, it is now sung in three different languages. Those songs sung in the ancient Indian dialect are called bonsan […], those in Chinese are called kansan, and the songs in Japanese are wasan. Because the Japanese adopted Chinese ideographs for their written language, giving them Japanese pronunciations, it is possible for them to sing Chinese songs with their own pronunciation. This form of shōmyō developed into a distinct style called kōshiki.

2000, William P. Malm, Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments, page 67:

Yet another type of lineage to transmit ideas related to hongaku thought was that of the performers of shōmyō, or Buddhist vocal music. Originating in India, shōmyō in medieval Japan comprised several types, including hymns of praise for the Buddha in transliterated Sanskrit; hymns in Chinese, including both translations of Sanskrit and those newly composed in China; singing of gāthās, or verses from sūtras; sung forms of the nembutsu, such as the inzei or “prolonged voice” nenbutsu established on Mt. Wu-t’ai and introduced from China by Ennin in the ninth century; chanting of the names of the Buddhas, set to music and performed at religious ceremonies; and hymns of praise composed in Japanese (wasan).

2003, Jacqueline I. Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism, page 129:

One of the earliest forms of Japanese Buddhist music is shomyo, derived from a Chinese adaptation of Indian Vedic chants and thought to have been elaborated in Japan in the 8th century by monks returning from China.

(Can we date this quote?), “Japan: Shomyo Buddhist Ritual - Dai Hannya Ceremony”, in Smithsonian Folkways Recordings:

The Buddhist chants come from three types of repertoires: shomyo ("Teisan", "Unga-Bai", "Sange", "Taiyo"), but also goeika ("Kannon-Daiji") and mantra ("Hannya-Singyo").

2022, “Midori Takada - You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana (Vinyl, LP, CD)”, in Rough Trade:


Mag and Nunc

/ˈmæɡ.ənˌnʌŋk/

Clipping of Magnificat + ellipsis of Nunc dimittis.

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis#English

(Anglicanism, music, informal) Contraction of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (“musical setting to be sung at evensong; especially when written and published as a pair”).


Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

(Anglicanism, music) A musical setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis to be sung at evensong; especially when written and published as a pair.


mani stone

From the mantra usually inscribed on them, from Tibetan ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐), from Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ).

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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ

ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं

om mani padme hum
om mani padme hum#English

(Buddhism) A stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.


full immersion

(Christianity) A method of baptism in which the person baptized is immersed in holy water completely.

affusion

baptism in which holy water is poured on the person's head

aspersion

baptism in which holy water is sprinkled on the person


dispensation of the fulness of times

en-noun

dispensation of the fulness of times (uncountable)

(Christianity) A world order or administration in which the heavens and the earth are under the political or spiritual government of Jesus.


hyperreal religion

hyperreal religion (plural hyperreal religions)

His cult based on the science fiction of L. Ron Hubbard was a hyperreal religion.

(rare) A religion drawing major inspiration from popular culture, particularly one imitating a work of fiction.


prakrti

(Hinduism) The original or natural form or condition of anything.


phytanthrope

From phyto- (“pertaining to plants”) + -anthrope (“human”), by analogy with therianthrope (“someone with an intense spiritual or psychological identification as a non-human animal”).

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[See title]

2020 August 13, u/sixbilliongods, “Phytanthrope/Plantkin pride flags!”, in r/otherkin, Reddit:

Yeah! There's phytanthrope/plantkin for people who feel they're plants, and objects usually just fall under objectkin!

Darahagh, the oak phytanthrope, in our system has been revamping his personal essay about his experiences. He's not done yet but its already over 14,000 words long. Good grief dude.

2022 February 11, HouseofChimeras, Twitter:

Phytanthropy is really interesting to me- how did you figure out you're a phytanthrope, if I may ask? I know a lot of therianthropes and otherkin figure it out from feelings and instincts, but does that apply to phytanthropy?

2023 October 5, u/zhenyuanlong, r/alterhuman, Reddit:

(neologism) Synonym of plantkin (“a type of otherkin that identifies as a plant”).


quadrobics

Likely a blend of quadrupedal (“walking on four feet”) + aerobics.

blend

Physical actions, movements, and exercises performed by an individual on all fours to mimic those of an animal.

квадро́бика

physical actions, movements and exercises performed by an individual on all fours to mimic those of an animal


bochur

My son told me that the principal had passed a new rule that if a bochur were a smoker, he had to leave the yeshiva and could not return until he stopped smoking.

2011 July 4, cindys, soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


timeless existence

(religion) An afterlife described as an eternal state of existence, believed in certain religions.


emunah

I've seen cases in which #1 might possibly be true, though the only way to do so would entail something like suicide of the soul anyway. And who knows, maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa. But there's emuna and there's emuna. The emuna that's strong enough for a person to willingly shrivel up into a living death in return for a better room on the other side seems awfully rare to me.

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

By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid. The thing that really saved German Orthodoxy was the renewed contact between German Orthodox Jews with those from Eastern Europe and both its traditional Lithuanian Yeshiva elements and the Hasidic groups. Their enthusiasm and deep emunah revitalized many German Orthodox Jews.

2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) faith, sincere belief, conviction.


wheel of time

en-noun

wheel of time (countable and uncountable, plural wheels of time)

(religion, philosophy) A concept found in certain religious traditions and philosophies, regarding time as cyclical and consisting of repeating ages.


IFB

(Christianity) Initialism of Independent Fundamental Baptist.


alterhuman

alterhuman (countable and uncountable, plural alterhumans)

(uncountable) A category that encompasses non-human and similar identities, such as otherkin or psychological multiplicity.


theta-delta

From the first character of θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”), and Δ (delta), mathematical symbol for change.

Your "Therian symbol", the Theta Delta, is incorrectly drawn: The bar of Theta should have crossbars on the ends, while Delta's left face should be noticeably thinner than the other two. In any event, it doesn't appear to be very "common" or "well-liked", given this is the first I've seen of it.

2006 March 18, Jure Sah, “Free Sibe”, in alt.horror.werewolves, Google Groups:

I think that's a pretty neat logo and I definitely prefer it to the Theta-Delta (which makes me think of dentists...and it's just an ugly symbol to me). I think that logo is cute and could be easily worn on a t-shirt though I think the hoof print needs resized.

2012 October 4, Arawn, “An Awesome Therian Logo”, in Werelist:

Hey psst would anyone be interested in buying a theta-delta (therian symbol thing) soft enamel pin if I custom ordered some? I'm baffled that they don't already exist

2018 August 3, CoyoteTraveller, Twitter:

Guten morgen, I appreciate the advice! Very smart… that could actually work, although, she may recognize the delta in the theta delta, since she watches those alpha männlich videos with my father…

2023 October 14, u/Grandma_Biter, “How do I convince my mom the theta delta is a different symbol?”, in r/Therian, Reddit:

(subculture) A symbol, depicting the uppercase Greek letter theta interwoven with a delta, that represents therianthropy (similar to the heptagram for otherkinity).


Nadab

(biblical) The first-born son of Aaron and Elisheba.


Trikaya

(Buddhism) A fundamental doctrine within Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism that delineates the multidimensional nature of a Buddha's existence in three distinct bodies or aspects.


Nereus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νηρεύς (Nēreús).

bor+

(Greek mythology) The eldest son of Pontus (the sea) and Gaia (the earth).


Isawiyya

An Islamic mystical brotherhood founded in Morocco.


Easter basket

(Christianity) A basket containing foods that are traditionally forbidden during Lent (meat, eggs, and dairy products), blessed by a priest for breaking the Lenten fast.


gebrochts

Matzah that has become wet after being baked.


middah

Shaul Hamelech was halachically wrong to spare Agag, but his desire to do so arose from an authentic Jewish middah of rachamim.

2006 June 5, Jonathan K. Baker, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) A personal moral virtue, especially viewed separately from religious obligation.


rachamim

Borrowed from Hebrew רַחֲמִים (rakhamím).

Israel has the attribute of rachamim, which is why we didn't fulfill God's command to wipe out the Seven Nations, and not to make treaties with them.

2002 July 29, Jonathan K. Baker, “A little help with a debate?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


mesorah

Given a problem like this, we don't assume a machloket, and we don't assume diametrically opposed views, because diametrically opposed views are always addressed as such. Our mesorah does not simply say two contradictory things and let them sit without comment.

2006 April 27, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):


tameh

(Jewish law) Ritually impure or tainted.


Acharon

I want to see a WRITTEN source as authored by a posek/acharon prior to the year 1900.

2006 April 29, bac...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

A rabbi-scholar of the modern period, starting from the 16th century.


Eretz Yisrael

Borrowed from Hebrew אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (“land of Israel”).

אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל

He categorically states that there will not be a renewal of Jewish sovereignity ^([sic]) in Eretz Israel prior to the Mashiach, thus indicating that the Jews would, for the indefinite future, would remain in Europe.


shriving-time

(religion, dated, obsolete, rare) The time for confession to a priest.


Areopagitics

Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.

1998, Elena Surkova, The Theological, Philosophical and Linguistic Background of Constantine the Philosopher's Concept of Translation Jože Krašovec (editor), The Interpretation of the Bible: The International Symposium in Slovenia, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Sheffield Academic Press, page 978,
The reference-points for Constantine the Philosopher in creating his philosophy of language were: 1. the corpus of texts known under the name of the Epistles of Paul the Apostle and 2. Areopagitics—the writings which appeared in Byzantium in the second half of the 5th century, written by Dionysius the Areopagite (or more exactly, Pseudo-Dionysius), whose programme, in Sergey Averintzev's words, represents a "synthesis of the attic tradition of speculation with the Christian mysticism of Paul the Apostle's Epistles […] ."

2019, Georges Florovsky, Byzantine Fathers: V – VIII centuries, Vladimir Djambov, page 194,
Peter Lombard looked at the Areopagitics as an indisputable authority. John Saracin in the 12th century, Thomas Verchelsky and Robert Grosseteste in the 13th century translate and comment on the Areopagitics.

(plural only, theology, early Christianity, historical) Collectively, the mystical theological works attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.


aqiqah

(Islam) The sacrifice of an animal after childbirth.


alterhumanity

From alterhuman + -ity. Otherwise analysable as alter- + humanity.


Masaw

(Hopi religion) Alternative spelling of Màasaw


powaqa

(Hopi culture) Synonym of two-heart (sorcerer).


yahrzeit candle

en-noun

yahrzeit candle (plural yahrzeit candles)

Every year he brought the yahrzeit candle out, and looked at it, and thought about lighting it.

2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 348:

(religion, Judaism) A type of candle that is lit in memory of the deceased in Judaism.


Mosaic covenant

Coordinate term: New Covenant

(Christianity, Judaism) A covenant between the Israelite tribes and God, including the entirety of the laws brought by Moses.


Old Covenant

Coordinate term: New Covenant

(Christianity) Synonym of Mosaic covenant


Lambeth Palace

(metonymically) The archbishopric of Canterbury.


religious institute

religious institute (plural religious institutes)

Coordinate term: secular institute

evangelical counsels
evangelical counsels

A Christian society whose members pronounce public vows, lead a life in common with one another, and generally observe the evangelical counsels.


Bogus Ordo

(Roman Catholicism, slang, derogatory) Synonym of Novus Ordo.


WCC

World Council of Churches
w:World Council of Churches

Initialism of World Council of Churches.


ANZPB

A New Zealand Prayer Book
w:A New Zealand Prayer Book

(Anglicanism) Initialism of A New Zealand Prayer Book.


OOW

(Christianity, informal) Initialism of ordination of women.


Bholenath

From Hindi भोलानाथ (bholānāth) and its source, Sanskrit भोलानाथ (bholānātha).

‘But I swear on Bholenath that nothing like that happened.’

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 60:

(Hinduism) The god Shiva, in his aspect as the lord of innocence.


perispritic

In other words, just as there is no other obstacle to our advancement than that which we make for ourselves by our persistence in wrong-doing, so there is no other arbiter of our destiny than our own moral and intellectual state, which state decides, at each successive period of our career, the quality of our perispritic action on the material elements around us.

1871, Anna Blackwell, The Philosophy of Existence, pages 61–2:

“A Spirit” is a complex being, in which is a trinity, consisting of a soul, or inner principle of conscious and active selfhood; a permanent soul envelope (Nephesch), which I will call Perisprit, composed of the “Dynamic substance,” which is the substantiality of Magnetism and Electricity; and a changeable outer envelope, or “body,” composed of particles of Matter, attracted and held together by the magnetic action of the said Perisprit, or Spirit Body, and that will fall apart from each other, and be resolved into their original elements on the cessation of the perispritic vibrations by which they were agglomerated into form; as particles of iron, for instance, would be drawn into shape by the attractive vibrations of a magnet of any given form plunged into their midst; as we are perpetually, although unconsciously, building up for ourselves a succession of new bodies, through the magnetic processes of digestion.

1874, Count de Medina Pomar, The Honeymoon, volume 2, pages 173–4:

Do you think it impossible that a perfect spirit like Jesus should be able to materialize the perispritic fluids of the superior worlds, and add and adapt the earthly fluids of which your bodies are composed to produce a tangible perispritic body, suited to his earthly mission, which should apparently represent the faculties and phases of your humanity.

1881, W. F. Kirby, transl., edited by J. B. Roustaing, The Four Gospels explained by their Writers, page 28:

(spiritualism) Of or pertaining to the perispirit.


Independent Catholic

Independent Catholic (plural Independent Catholics)

Independent Catholicism
Independent Catholicism

(Christianity) An adherent of Independent Catholicism.


Independent Catholicism

(Christianity) A denomination of Catholicism that affirms both its belonging to the Catholic tradition as well as its independence from Rome.


meetinger

(religion) One who attends meetings (type of religious service).


Tantric Buddhism

(Buddhism) A tradition focusing on mystical practices and concepts as a path to enlightenment.


Ninurta

Ultimately from Sumerian 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒅁 (ᵈNIN.URTA)

A Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture and war


Ikshvaku

Borrowed from Sanskrit इक्ष्वाकु (ikṣvāku).

bor+

(Hinduism) The first king of Ayodhya, one of the sons of Vaivasvata Manu, ancestor of Rāma.


tapasya

(Hinduism, Jainism) Alternative form of tapas (“asceticism, self-discipline”)


Peniel

a Peniel missionary

(Christianity, historical, attributive) The Peniel Mission, an interdenominational holiness rescue mission founded in Los Angeles in 1886 and dissolved in 1949.


ancestor spirit

en-noun

ancestor spirit (plural ancestor spirits)

(anthropology, religion) The spirit of a human that has died, often venerated in religious ceremonies.


tukdam

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུགས་དམ (thugs dam).

bor+

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche passed away quite suddenly, but after he died he remained in tukdam for quite a while, longer than the sun was in the sky that day.

1999 August 1, Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Binder Schmidt, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, As it is, volume 1, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, →ISBN, page 25:

The signs of tukdam are that the heart remains warm, rigor mortis does not set in, and the body does not begin to deteriorate.

2009 November 10, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Uncommon Happiness, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, →ISBN, page 9:

At noon, after his breathing had stopped, he manifested the state of tukdam, the ultimate meditation at the moment of death.

2012 April 16, Lama Kunsang, Lama Pemo, Marie Aubele, History of the Karmapas: The Odyssey of the Tibetan Masters with the Black Crown, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 42:

(Tibetan Buddhism) An advanced state of meditation believed to be attained by some experienced meditators following their deaths.


Saptarshi

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सप्तर्षि (saptarṣi)

lbor

(Hinduism) the seven seers of ancient India who are extolled in the Vedas, and other Hindu literature.


frumkeit

(Judaism) The quality of being frum (pious and observant of Jewish laws and customs).


guilt offering

Coordinate term: sin offering

(biblical, historical) A kind of biblical sacrifice made as a compensation payment for certain transgressions.


Cernunnos

Learned borrowing from Latin Cernunnus, itself from Gaulish *Karnonos.

Cernunnos is one of the oldest of the old gods.[…]Often attacked by the forces of the early Christian Church, Cernunnos was misconstrued as demonic and the lord of sorcerers and witches during the Middle Ages.

2003, Arthur Rowan, The Lore of the Bard, Llewellyn Publications, page 242:

2004, Philip Carr-Gomm, Stephanie Carr-Gomm, Druid Craft Tarot, Connections Book Publishing, page 146,
Here we see an image of Cernunnos - the Lord of the Animals, the wild Herdsman and Hunter.

2012, Aislin, Ashling Wicca, Book 1, Lulu.com, page 60,
This leads to the natural conclusion that Cernunnos was more than a fertility god and more than simply the consort of the Goddess. In the Ashling Wicca tradition, Cernunnos is seen as a god of initiation, of change, and of following a new path.

(religion, historical, Gallo-Roman religion, Celtic religion) A deity, usually depicted as a man with antlers, associated with stags, horned serpents, dogs and bulls.

Gallo-Roman religion; Celtic religion; Gallo-Roman religion; Celtic religion

Cernunnos

Gallo-Roman and Celtic deity associated with certain animals


Intercession of the Theotokos

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism) Christian feast of the Mother of God

Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary

Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary


sin offering

Coordinate term: guilt offering

(biblical, historical) A sacrificial offering of flour or an animal, commanded in the Torah (Leviticus 4.1-35), serving to atone for the unintentional transgression of a prohibition.


Gandhari

Borrowed from Sanskrit गान्धारी (gāndhārī).

bor+

(Hinduism) Wife of Dhritarashtra, mother of Kauravas and the sister of Shakuni.


Ireima

(Meitei mythology) An ancient Meitei goddess of water, aquatic life, diseases and illnesses.


Aśvins

(Hinduism) Twin gods of medicine, health, dawn and the sciences.


Rorate Sunday

(Christianity) The fourth Sunday in Advent, on which "Rorate caeli" is used as an introit.


Ram Ram

See Ram (“Rāma, incarnation of Vishnu”).


P'ent'ay

A majority of the population adheres to Christianity (mainly the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and P’ent’ay), while around a third follows Islam (primarily Sunni Islam).

2017 June 2, IBP, Inc, Ethiopia Electoral, Political Parties Laws and Regulations Handbook: Strategic Information, Regulations, Procedures (World Business and Investment Library), →ISBN, page 9:

All denominations and organizations of Protestantism in Ethiopia and Eritrea.


kosher-style

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Of foods: associated with Jewish cuisine, and typically not including forbidden meat (such as pork) nor combining meat and dairy, but not necessarily prepared in a kosher manner.


Bible beater

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


Tewahedo

For many Ethiopian Orthodox, history has forged an almost patriotic link between Tewahedo Christology and loyalty to their nation against the incursion of foreign religious ideas.

2006 October 1, Craig Ott, Harold A. Netland, Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity, →ISBN, page 151:

It is important to note that the interiors of many old Tewahedo churches are entirely covered with outsized mural icons.

2011 April 30, Paulos Milkias, Ethiopia (Nations in Focus), →ISBN, page 323:

The Tewahedo tradition brings all this worldwide heritage together in a synthesis that makes it purely Ethiopian.

2022 January 12, Alemayehu Wassie, Demel Teketay, Mengistie Kindu, Mulugeta Lemenih, Thomas Knoke, Thomas Schneider, State of the Art in Ethiopian Church Forests and Restoration Options, →ISBN, page 57:

Belonging or relating to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and/or the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.


goysplaining

Some may accuse me of goysplaining – him being Jewish, me not. But seeing as I'm his father, he's just going to have to get used to a lot more of where that comes from.

2017 April 6, Giles Fraser, “Israel makes sense only from the perspective of Passover”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-28:

(neologism, Judaism) The act of condescendingly explaining Jewish issues to a Jew as a goy (non-Jew).


Islamotard

(slang, derogatory, offensive, religious slur) A Muslim.


goysplain

en-verb

goysplain (third-person singular simple present goysplains, present participle goysplaining, simple past and past participle goysplained)

goysplains (present singular third-person)
goysplaining (participle present)
goysplained (participle past)
goysplained (past)

And so Walker makes the appropriate gestures of love for Israel, which is both a great beacon of democracy and a necessary prop that will be needed to bring about the End Times. He even made a point of goysplaining, at a Las Vegas Adelsonfest, that he named his son Matthew, which is Hebrew for "gift from God," and that he celebrates the Birth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ with both Christmas lights and "a menorah candle." See, he's trying real hard!

2014 December 10, Doktor Zoom, “Scott Walker Wished Jewish Friends A Merry Jewish Christmas And An Incendiary New Year”, in Wonkette, archived from the original on 2024-03-27:

The people who goysplain think that because they went to the trouble of reading an article, watching a documentary, or Googling something, they now understand an entire faith and should be congratulated for it.

2015 March 30, Lilit Marcus, “The Art of Goysplaining”, in The Forward, New York, N.Y.: The Forward Association, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

This did not stop Clinton from "goysplaining" the holiday and accusing prominent left-wing Jews like Bernie Sanders of betraying their own people.

2016 April 18, Ben Norton, “Hillary Clinton "goysplains" to Bernie Sanders in Passover article, accusing him of betraying his people by criticizing Israel”, in Salon.com, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-03:

(neologism, Judaism) To condescendingly explain Jewish issues to a Jew as a goy (non-Jew).


Christification

(Christianity) The process of becoming Christlike.


shastrik

(religion) According to Sanskrit textual authority.


Sepharad

(Judaism) The Iberian Peninsula, especially in reference to the local Jews before their forced expulsion from 1492 onwards.


Ashmedai

/ˈæʃ.mɪˌdaɪ/

Borrowed from Hebrew אַשְׁמְדַאי (ashmedáy). Doublet of Asmodeus.

bor+

Whilst Ashmedai was reigning in Jerusalem, Solomon went about from place to place saying that he was Solomon the king of the Jews; but the people laughed at him and said that he was mad.

1869, E. C. A., Count Teleki: A Story of Modern Jewish Life and Customs, →OCLC, page 202:

The moment he released Ashmedai from his fetters, the demon snatched the ring and hurled it into the sea. Solomon’s power and wisdom were lost, and Ashmedai took the king’s throne in his place.

2006, Dov Noy, Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands, →ISBN, page 586:

In the famous tale of Solomon and Ashmedai (Gittin 68a-b), the latter resists until the moment Benaiah produces Solomon’s ring, engraved with the Ineffable Name

2009, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, →ISBN, page 154:


Jabarite

(Islam, historical) A follower of Jabriyya.


Jabriyya

(Islam, historical) An early Islamic philosophical school based on the belief that humans are controlled by predestination, without having choice or free will.


anti'l

(Navajo culture) Synonym of corpse powder


Resheph

Ultimately from Eblaite 𒀭𒊏𒊓𒀊 (ra-sa-ap). Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎗𐎌𐎔 (ršp), Egyptian ršpw, and Hebrew רֶשֶׁף

A god associated with plague, featured in Eblaite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian myth


altar call

The New York Times notes that, where his rallies were once "improvised and volatile," their finales now feel more planned, solemn, and infused with religion. The closing fifteen minutes "evokes an evangelical altar call" filled with references to God.

2024 April 8, “The Rapid Secularization of America”, in Fareed Zakaria GPS, spoken by Fareed Zakaria:

(Christianity) A tradition, typically held at the end of an evangelical address, in which those who wish to make a new spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ are invited to come forward publicly. The supplicants gather at the altar located at the front of the church building.


Keturah

From Hebrew קְטוּרָה (Qəṭūrā, “Keturah”).

(biblical) Keturah, the second wife of Abraham.


Drukpa Kagyu

Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད ('brug pa bka' brgyud).

འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད

(Tibetan Buddhism) The leading school of Tibetan Buddhism in Bhutan.


Othniel

From Biblical Hebrew עָתְנִיאֵל (ʿOṯnīʾēl), of uncertain meaning but at any rate ending in אֵל (ʾēl, “God”).

(biblical) Othniel, the first of the biblical judges.


husayniyya

Borrowed from Arabic حُسَيْنِيَّة f (ḥusayniyya).

bor

حُسَيْنِيَّة

A building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram.


Bathouism

A folk religion native to the ethnic Boro in Assam, India.


tikkun olam

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּקּוּן עוֹלָם (“repairing the world”). The Hebrew phrase has been used to refer to a variety of things through Jewish history, including the elimination of idolatry.

bor+

תִּקּוּן עוֹלָם

The value, prominent in Liberal Judaism, of helping and bettering society as a whole.


Paristan

Coordinate term: Londonistan

(informal, derogatory) Paris (capital city of France), perceived as having been culturally conquered by Muslims.


Har Har Mahadev

Borrowed from Hindi हर हर महादेव (har har mahādev), from Sanskrit हर हर महादेव (hara hara mahādeva).

bor

हर हर महादेव

der

हर हर महादेव

(Hinduism) a salute or invocation towards the Hindu god Shiva, the god of destruction and time.


shomer negiah

(Judaism) Abstaining from physical contact with the other sex outside of marriage.


Ayyám-i-Há

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَیَّامِ هَاء (ayyām-i hā', “Days of Ha”).

bor+

اَیَّامِ هَاء

A period lasting four or five days before the last month of the Baháʼí calendar, celebrated by Baháʼí Faith believers as a festival.


Ridván

A twelve-day-long festival in the Baháʼí Faith commemorating a declaration by Baháʼu'lláh that he was a Manifestation of God.


negiah

Borrowed from Hebrew נְגִיעָה (“touch”).

(Jewish law) Physical contact between the sexes outside of marriage or familial relations.

If I see a young man and woman out on a date in the US, would I not assume that even if they were makpid on kashrut, they might not be as makpid on negia? Or even on pre-marital sex? After all, that is exceedingly common in the US today, and it's even made inroads among ostensibly Orthodox Jews.

2006 June 9, Lisa, “LESBIAN & GAY SHABBAT DINNER - 5 JUNE -- RODEPH SHOLOM (NYC)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Jewish law) The prohibition against this.


Subud

Contraction of Javanese susila budhi dharma.

In 1970 the American scholar Jacob Needleman, in his book The New Religions, could write that Subud is the most widespread of all the new teachings, being spread in more than 60 countries throughout the world.

1997, Antoon Geels, Subud and the Javanese Mystical Tradition, Curzon, →ISBN, page 131:

An international spiritual movement that began in Indonesia in the 1920s.


neo-Christian

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to neo-Christianity.


neo-Christian

Before the banishment of Jews from Spain took effect, Antonio di Moro, a Jewish peddler of Cordova, flourished as the last of Spanish troubadours, and Rodrigo da Cota, a neo-Christian of Seville, as the first of Spanish dramatists, the supposed author of Celestina, one of the most celebrated of old Spanish dramatic compositions.

1895, Gustav Karpeles, Jewish Literature, and Other Essays, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, page 97:

(Christianity, history) Synonym of New Christian


reverse Advent calendar

en-noun

reverse Advent calendar (plural reverse Advent calendars)

A reverse Advent calendar consists of collecting long-life food items and toiletries which you then donate at the end of the 24 days. You could add one item per day or donate as many as you like and are able to. You could also create a reverse Advent with a group of friends or family and add one item per person per day.

2020, Eilidh Gallagher, Green Christmas: Little Changes that Bring Joy and Help the Planet, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 51:

Sarah said that if Helen wanted either Playmobil or Lego she’d have to hurry as they sell out early, and that she would be doing a reverse advent calendar and buying something for the food bank every time she shops in December. That rather shut everyone up and they all agreed they’d do it, too.

2021, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Everyone Is Still Alive, Orion Publishing Group, page 76:

We also work with food charities closer to home. Every year in the UK we encourage our community to take part in our reverse advent calendar with a twist. Instead of taking food as you would with a traditional advent calendar, customers put food into their box each day of December. We then collect up all of the full boxes of food and deliver them to our food partner. This helps ensure support is given to people in need at this difficult time of year and collectively has a big impact.

2023, Giles Humphries, Myles Hopper, Mindful Chef: Healthy You, Happy Planet, Random House, page 69:

The activity of storing away a non-perishable food item, toiletry, clothing item, or other essential item each day during the Advent period, often starting on December 1, then donating them on Christmas Eve to local food banks, shelters, charities, or other organizations that support individuals and families in need.


redeem the time

en-verb

redeem the time (third-person singular simple present redeems the time, present participle redeeming the time, simple past and past participle redeemed the time)

redeems the time (present singular third-person)
redeeming the time (participle present)
redeemed the time (participle past)
redeemed the time (past)

(Christianity, theology) To spend one's time in wisdom and in submission to God.


holy year

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of jubilee (“special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”)


Montanize

Montanize (third-person singular simple present Montanizes, present participle Montanizing, simple past and past participle Montanized)

Montanizes (present singular third-person)
Montanizing (participle present)
Montanized (participle past)
Montanized (past)

(Christianity, intransitive) To hold the doctrines of Montanism.


en-noun

Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist (plural Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists)

(Christianity) A member of a conservative Baptist group opposing missionary work and believing in the serpent seed doctrine.


Ryobu

(historical, religion) A form of Shinto dominated by Buddhism, between the eighth and 14th centuries.


serpent seed

(Christianity) A controversial and fringe Christian religious belief that explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain. This event resulted in the creation of two races of people: the wicked descendants of the Serpent who were destined for damnation, and the righteous descendants of Adam who were destined to have eternal life.


released time

released time (countable and uncountable, plural released times)

(US, education, religion) The amount of time set aside during school hours, typically an hour a day or a week, for a student to receive an off-campus private religious education.


Draupadi

Borrowed from Sanskrit द्रौपदी (draupadī).


H-pop

From H (“Hindutva”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.

On another occasion, H-pop singer Kanhiya Mittal sang a duet with a BJP lawmaker whose lyrics read “the saffron is getting deeper”, a reference to the colour of Hinduism and the BJP's own party colours, […]

2024 May 4, John Reed, “How to interpret India?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

(music) Hindutva pop music; Indian nationalist pop music.


plastic shaman

(Native American, religion, derogatory) An individual who is attempting to pass themselves off as a shaman, holy person, or other traditional spiritual leader, but who has no genuine connection to the traditions or cultures which they claim to represent.


undern-song

(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, dated, obsolete) Synonym of terce (“the service appointed for the third hour of daylight”)


tekiah

(Judaism) A single long blast played on the shofar.


tachanun

From Hebrew תחנון (literally “supplication”).


restitutionism

(Christianity) Synonym of restorationism


star-cover

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of asterisk (“An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos”).


bechorim

bor

Hebrew בכורים


ovel

(Judaism) Alternative form of avel (“mourner”)


jhana

en-noun

jhana (countable and uncountable, plural jhanas)

The first time I heard about the jhanas, they sounded too good to be true. These special mental states are described in the sacred texts of an ancient school of Buddhism.

2024 March 4, Ross Andersen, “The Meditation Start-Up That’s Selling Bliss on Demand”, in The Atlantic:

(Hinduism, Buddhism) Alternative spelling of dhyana


broad and shallow

(derogatory, idiomatic, Christianity) Associated with the Broad Church; latitudinarian.


Dodekatheism

Borrowed from Greek δωδεκαθεϊσμός (dodekatheïsmós).

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δωδεκαθεϊσμός

Hellenismos aka Dodekatheism, Hellenism, Hellenic Polytheism or Hellenic Reconstructionism is the modern adaptation of the Ancient Hellenic (Greek) religion.

2016, Rachel Patterson, The Art of Ritual, Collective Ink, →ISBN, page 183:

Others, focusing on the twelve deities from Mount Olympus, refer to their tradition as either Dodekatheism or Olympianism.

2018, Tony Mierzwicki, Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 11:

Others consider themselves as followers of Dodekatheism or Olympianism.

2021, Samantha Leaver, Pagan Portals - Hellenic Paganism, Collective Ink, →ISBN, page 15:

(uncommon) Synonym of Hellenism (the modern-day revival of the polytheistic religious system of Ancient Greece)


transverberation

(Christianity) A form of religious ecstasy characterized by a piercing sensation.


simran

(Hinduism, Sikhism) The continuous remembrance of the finest aspect of the self, or of God, sometimes achieved by repeating a mantra.


Mazdaznan

(historical) A neo-Zoroastrian religion, founded at the end of the 19th century, which held that the Earth should be restored to a garden where humanity could cooperate and converse with God.


Revived Roman Empire

An extraordinary character at the head of a leading power in Europe will be the immediate instrumentality in organizing the coming Roman Empire; but extraordinary occasions always bring out such.
The great Napoleon, and the Imperial Confederation which he organized, afford an illustration. But the head of the Revived Roman Empire will be, in many respects, a more extraordinary character than the great Napoleon. The coming character will be an unscrupulous, impious, daring person, endowed with satanic intelligence and skill, and wielding a species of superhuman power over the minds of men. He is styled by the inspired Apostle, "that man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped."

1879, J. Berry, “IMPENDING CRISIS.”, in The Roman Empire Revived. An Outline of Coming Events, and an Harmonious Elucidation of the Prophecies Having Reference Thereto: Also the Rapture of the True Church, with a New and Satisfactory Explanation of the Symbolic Number 666. (Religion), Cincinnati, Ohio: Wrightson & Co., →OCLC, page 50:

Here is a distinction between the “FORMER” and “LATTER” time of the “Four Kingdoms” into which Alexander’s Empire was divided, which prophetically declares that those “Four Kingdoms” are to be resuscitated and become “Four” of the “Ten Kingdoms” into which the Revived Roman Empire shall be divided, for God is able to revive dead nations as well as dead men. As proof of this Greece is a sovereign State today, and Egypt is again coming into power, and in the upheaval of nations no one can foretell how soon Thrace and Syria shall again appear as independent Kingdoms.

1929, Clarence Larkin, “The Ram and the He-Goat”, in The Book of Daniel (Religion), Philadelphia, PA: Erwin W. Moyer Co., →OCLC, page 164:

The following will be among the questions the pastor will answer at the evening service: "Will Mussolini Revive Ancient Babylon?" "What will be the Relationship Between Rome and Bablon^([sic – meaning Babylon]) in the Revived Roman Empire?" "What Is the Prophetic Siginficance^([sic – meaning Significance]) of the Pope’s Latest Disagreement with Mussolini?"

1929 June 8, “Warning Seen When Il Duce Disputes Pope”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 74, number 135, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 5:

The other nations which were a part of the Old Roman Empire, but are not as yet in the W.E.U., as of this writing, are Spain, Portugal and Austria. Austria has already applied for membership in the Common Market. Portugal is a member of NATO and thus in full cooperation with the W.E.U.; and Spain has just renewed its military agreement with the U.S.A. and thus with the Atlantic Alliance and NATO. The end result, therefore, is that, even though the actual Ten Nation Empire of the Revived Roman Empire area is not yet in full political oneness, it is already in full cooperation by coalition and it is supported militarily by full commitment of the United States of America and the thermonuclear super-power thereof.

1972, Charles R. Taylor, “BIBLE RECORDED PROPHECIES ABOUT WORLD WAR III”, in The Destiny of America (Religion), Van Nuys, Calif.: Time-Light Publishers Division of Bible Voice, →OCLC, page 24:

One of the reasons I’m convinced we’re living in the closing days of the world’s history is because of the emergence of the European Common Market, also known as the European Economic Community. There is no doubt in my mind that it’s the forerunner of the Revived Roman Empire which the prophet Daniel spoke about with such certainty. He predicted that the number of nations in it would be limited to ten. This is the very number which the Common Market has set as its goal for inner membership!

1973, Hal Lindsey, “The Two Antichrists”, in There's a New World Coming: 'A Prophetic Odyssey' (Religion), Santa Ana, California: Vision House Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186:

Though scarcely noticed at publication by even the evangelical press, The Late Great Planet Earth became the best-selling book of the decade, with scores of printings ultimately churning out close to 16 million copies. IT was a tale of biblical prophecy told in countercultural vernacular, and it went like this. Soon the Israelis will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and conclude a treaty with the dictator of the Revived Roman Empire, also known as the Antichrist.

1986 March 30, Mark Silk, “RELIGIOUS BOOKS: SEVEN THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Books:

At the exact time of the Rapture or Catching-Away of the Church (1 COR 15:51-54), (1 THESS 4:13-18), and the great, great turmoil that results from War World III; a great leader like the world has never seen (Anti-Christ), will come forth out of the European Union thus the revived Roman Empire will come into its full being or existence as the final Kingdom on earth ruled by mortal man; in which he (Anti-Christ) will rule the earth for a seven year period; (DAN 9:27) at which at the end of that time the LORD of LORDS, and KING of KINGS will set up the Kingdom of GOD which shall never end (DAN 2:44, 7:13-14, 27) which we will study more in-depth in a later chapter.

2004, Richard Goode, “"ISRAEL'S FUTURE"”, in ~Prophecy~ Destiny of America!: Destiny of the World! (Religion), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 166–167:

The Eighth form of this political Beast is described in the Book of Revelation 17, c11. It is an extension of the Revived Roman Empire at the end of the Church Age; which will rise to its climax and be terminated by an act (see Rev.17:16) of the Antichrist; who has not yet been revealed; and who God says will remain for a short while to accomplish God's Will, in Rev.17:17).

2015, Larry Zarysky, Tarnopol: An Anatomy of a Life: A Book of Many Colors (Religion), Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 255–256:

(theology, eschatology) A multinational superpower entity during the Tribulation connected with the Antichrist, in modern religious speculation often identified with the European Union.


pointing mark

From pointing (“placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note”) + mark.

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(music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant, a mark in the text which corresponds to a barline in the chant, which indicates the syllables on which the chant changes note; typically a vertical line ( | ) or apostrophe ( ' ).


Anglican chant

(music, Anglicanism) A form of chant in which unmetrical text (chiefly psalms) are sung, in which a short, harmonized melody is sung by a choir, with the chant usually corresponding to a single verse.