Sister Minor

Calque of Medieval Latin sorores minores (“lesser sisters”) and its variants in Norman, Middle French, and Italian. Doublet of Sister Minoress.

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...any Graunte by us made unto the Abbas, Covent and Susters Minores withoute Algate of oure Citee of London...

1473, Rolls of Parliament, volume VI, page 78:

(Catholicism, obsolete or historical) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.

(Catholicism) A nun of the Order of Mary Immaculate.


Friar Minor

en-noun

Friar Minor (plural Friars Minor or Friar Minors)

Friars Minor (plural)
Friar Minors (plural)

A calque of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“the Lesser Brothers”), both directly and via Old French freres meneurs and Norman freres menures, a name supposedly chosen by St Francis to inculcate humility.

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[…] So þere weren with vs ij worthi men, Frere Menoures […]

c. 1410, "John Mandeville", Travels (Titus C.xvi), p. 188

The Friars Preacher opened their studium generale at St. Jacques, Paris, in 1229, the Friars Minor theirs in 1231.

1952, Beryl Smalley, Study of Bible in Middle Ages, p. 264

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.


Friars Minor

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor#English

(Catholicism) Ellipsis of Order of Friars Minor: the religious order of friars founded by St Francis of Assisi.


underivedly

(theology) Without having been derived from something else; originally.


takyeh

Borrowed from Iranian Persian تکیه (takye). Doublet of takya, takiyya, and tekke.

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Here I was informed that the Kedkhudá (chief man of the village), apprised by the muleteer of my arrival, had assigned quarters to me in the takyé consecrated to the Muḥarram passion-plays.

1893, Edward G. Browne, A Year amongst the Persians, page 250:

Another communication centre for the Muslims and members of the community is the takyeh, of which there are hundreds in Tehran and other provinces.

1995, National Development and Security, page 116:

This Maidan and the Takyeh, once considered as the entrance portal of the old Bazar of Yazd, belong to the late part of the 9th century A.H. (15th cent. A.D.), and have been founded in 830 (1426 A.D.), when Masjid-i Mir Chakhmaq was also under construction.

1974, Nosratollah Meshkati, A List of the Historical Sites and Ancient Monuments of Iran, page 72:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya; alternative form of takya


takiyya

Borrowed from Arabic تَكِيَّة (takiyya), from Ottoman Turkish تَكیه (tekye), from Classical Persian تکیه (takya). Doublet of takya, tekke, and takyeh.

During the fast-month, zikrs are rarely performed in the Takiyahs: the inmates pray there in congregations, or they sit conversing upon benches in the shade.

1855, Richard F. Burton, “Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage”, in El-Misr, page 125:

The Sufis in this takiyya were expected to devote themselves exclusively to learning and worship, [...]

1988, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, “The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo”, in Muqarnas, page 44:

In addition to new layouts and forms the Ottomans also introduced new types of buildings such as the takiyya [...]

2002, Andrew Petersen, Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, page 50:

In Arabic-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, a Sufi convent.


NEH

The New English Hymnal
w:The New English Hymnal

(Church of England) Initialism of The New English Hymnal.


takya

The presence of the Hindiler Tekkesi or the Indian takya in Istanbul since the time of Tipu's mission is another indication but it was not until the 1840s that the position of the Indian Muslims with regard to the Ottoman caliphate was fully crystallized.

1999, M. Naeem Qureshi, Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics, page 16:

The younger shaykh, Baba Musafir, turned to the task of establishing a takya or khanqah at Awrangabad

A gathering place for Sufis, especially in the Ottoman Empire and South Asia.

takyas (graveyards)

1994, A. D. Khan, Diplomatics of the Soyurghal Farman of the Great Mughals, page 6:

Takya, a pillow, a resting-place of Faqīrs

2017, Ja'far Sharif, William Crooke, Islam in India:

The cemetery or graveyard of Sufis, especially in South Asia.

The takya was often endowed with several stores, the profits from which would help to defray the cost of maintaining the takya.

2004, Robert Gleave, Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, page 388:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya


sotah

Borrowed from Hebrew סוֹטָה (“adulteress”).

The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 796:

(Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.


Rigdonism

(historical) The belief of the Rigdonites.


Rigdonite

(historical) A member of the Latter-day Saint movement who accepted Sidney Rigdon as the successor in the church presidency to the movement's founder, Joseph Smith Jr.


autohomicide

en-noun

autohomicide (countable and uncountable, plural autohomicides)

(Christianity, rare) An act of submission; the act of laying down one's own self and desires in order to pursue Christ.


sit shiva

en-verb

sit shiva (third-person singular simple present sits shiva, present participle sitting shiva, simple past and past participle sat shiva)

sits shiva (present singular third-person)
sitting shiva (participle present)
sat shiva (participle past)
sat shiva (past)

Did you know that some parents sit shiva […] for 30 days if their child is discovered to be gay?

1974 February 2, “Jewish Gay Group”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 2:

(Judaism) To take part in the shiva mourning ritual.


Okipa

(anthropology, religion) A major religious ceremony conducted by the Mandan people.


Jerusalem cross

en-noun

Jerusalem cross (plural Jerusalem crosses)

A flowering plant Lychnis chalcedonica (syn. Silene chalcedonica) of the family Caryophyllaceae


Irai Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of water, aquatic life, diseases and illnesses.


Imoinu

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯏꯃꯣꯏꯅꯨ (ʼimoʼinoo).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of family, fireplace, hearth, household, kitchen, peace, prosperity and wealth.


Khamnung Kikoi Louonbi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯝꯅꯨꯡ ꯀꯤꯀꯣꯢ ꯂꯧꯑꯣꯟꯕꯤ (khamnoong keekoi louʼonbee).

ꯈꯝꯅꯨꯡ ꯀꯤꯀꯣꯢ ꯂꯧꯑꯣꯟꯕꯤ

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of death who carries off the souls of individuals to the underworld.


Khuman Pokpa

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯨꯃꯟ ꯄꯣꯛꯄ (khooman pokpa).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of the sunset and the night time. He is also the ancestral God of the Khuman clan.


Khunu Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯨꯅꯨꯔꯩꯃ (khoonooreima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of pigeons and doves.


Kounu

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian goddess of the northern direction, the snows of the far north, giver of good rainfall, and a consort of God Koupalu.


Laikhurembi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯂꯥꯏꯈꯨꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ (laaʼikhoorembee).

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of argument, justice, good counsel, divine law, order, retribution and secrecy; the chief queen of the Khamnung underworld and the chief consort of the god Thongalen.


Salailen

(Meitei mythology) An ancient Meitei god of the sky and heaven. He is the king of all gods.


Lok Ningthou

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of brooks, gorges, ravines, rills, rivulets, runnels and streams, the guardian of the southern direction and the son of God Wangpulen.


Lainaotabi

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of charm, magic, sorcery, spell, weaving and witchcraft and a minor consort of the god Thongalen, and later remarried to Poireiton.


Koupalu

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯧꯕꯔꯨ (koubaroo).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei tutelary guardian god of the northwestern direction. He is the mythological founder of human civilization.


Haoreima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯍꯥꯎꯔꯩꯃ (haaureima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of diseases, illnesses, souls and spirits.


Koujeng Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯧꯖꯦꯡ ꯂꯩꯃ (koujeng leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of tribal origin and a minor consort of God Koupalu.


Marjing

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯥꯔꯖꯤꯡ (maarajeeng).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of polo, hockey, horse, sports and war. He is the guardian of the northeast direction.


Nungthel Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of the first citizen. She is the adopted daughter of God Koupalu and Goddess Kounu. She is the consort of God Loyalakpa.


Loyalakpa

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯂꯣꯌꯥꯔꯥꯛꯄ (loyaaraakpa).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian god of the western direction. He is an adopted son of God Koupalu and Goddess Kounu.


Korouhanba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯣꯔꯧꯍꯟꯕ (korouhanba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of the sun, sky and heaven.


Nongshaba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯁꯥꯕ (nongsaaba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei dragon lion god of protection.


Panthoibi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯥꯟꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (paanthoʼibee).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of civilization, courage, fertility, handicraft, love, victory, warfare and wisdom. She is the consort of God Nongpok Ningthou.


Khoriphaba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯣꯔꯤꯐꯥꯕ (khoreephaaba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of adventure, sports, wrestling and polo matches. He is the son of Salailen and Konthoujam Tampha Lairembi.


Ngaleima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯉꯥꯔꯩꯃ (ngaareima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of fish and aquatic life.


Mongba Hanba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯣꯡꯕ ꯍꯟꯕ (mongba hanba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei sylvan deity.


Thongalen

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯣꯉꯥꯂꯦꯟ (thongaalen).

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei god of the dead and the king of the Khamnung underworld.


Nongthang Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯊꯥꯡ ꯂꯩꯃ (nongthaang leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of seduction, thunder and lightning.


Wangpulen

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡꯄꯨꯂꯦꯟ (waangpoolen).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of water, rain, flood, disease and sickness, the guardian of the southeast direction.


Nongpok Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯄꯣꯛ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ (nongpok neengthou).

ꯅꯣꯡꯄꯣꯛ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian god of the eastern direction. He is the consort of Goddess Panthoibi.


Phouoibi

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of agriculture, crops, fertility, grains, harvesting, paddy, rice and wealth. She is the consort of God Phou Ningthou.


Pakhangba

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei serpentine dragon god of protection of the universe.


Nganu Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯉꯥꯅꯨ ꯂꯩꯃ (ngaanoo leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of ducks and waterfowl.


Panam Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯅꯝ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ (panam neengthou).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei protector god of crops (paddy) from hailstorm and thunder. He is the igniter of the first fire.


Shapi Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei goddess and mistress of all the rodents. She is a daughter of God Salailen.


Khamlangba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯝꯂꯥꯡꯕ (khamlaangba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of iron, mining, metallurgy, steel manufacturing, hunting and war.


Phou Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯐꯧ ꯅꯤꯪꯊꯧ (phou neengthou).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of agriculture, crops, fertility, grains, harvesting, paddy and rice. He is the consort of Goddess Phouoibi.


Yumjao Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of house, household, royalty, rule and power. She is the all time reigning mythological queen mother.


Thumleima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯨꯝꯂꯩꯃ (thoomleima).

(Meitei mythology) An ancient Meitei goddess of salt and salt brines. She is a daughter of the god Salailen.


Taoroinai

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯇꯥꯎꯔꯣꯢꯅꯥꯢ (taauroinaai).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei serpentine dragon god of the moon.


Thangching

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯥꯡꯖꯤꯡ (thaangjeeng).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei protector and guardian god of the southwestern direction. He is the progenitor of the Moirang clan.


Pisatao

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯤꯁꯥꯇꯥꯎ (peesaataau), ꯄꯤ (pee, “to give”) + ꯁꯥ (saa, “to create, make”) + ꯇꯥꯎ (taau, “male friend”).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of architecture, artisans, forge, handicrafts, metallurgy and skills.


Pureiromba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯨꯔꯩꯔꯣꯝꯕ (pooreiromba).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei giver god of rain and agricultural prosperity.


Sanamahi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯁꯅꯥꯃꯍꯤ (sanaamahee). Meitei word Sana is a portmanteau of Salailen and "Nawa" ("child" in Meitei), thereby meaning "Salailen's child (Nawa)". Sanamahi is a combination of "Sana" and "Mahi" ("liquid" in Meitei), thereby meaning "child (Nawa) developed by the liquid (Mahi) of Salailen".

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei supreme guardian god of mankind and human household. He is the son of God Salailen.


Thongak Lairembi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯣꯡꯉꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯢꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ (thongngaak laairembee).

ꯊꯣꯡꯉꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯢꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei gatekeeper goddess of the entrance gate to the underworld kingdom. She is the consort of God Thongalen.


Meitei

Of or relating to Manipur, its people (the Meitei), its language, its food, or (religion) its traditional form.


Konthoujam Tampha Lairembi

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess Queen of Heaven. She is a consort of Salailen and the mother of Khoriphaba.


Christian right

(Christianity, politics, US politics) Political factions in the United States and other Western countries who favour conservative values enacted into their countries' society and laws.

Muslim right

ultraconservative Muslim movements, various countries


tricennal

From mistaken use of Medieval Latin trīcennāle, neuter substantive of Latin trīcennālis (“tricennial”), from trīcennium (“30-year period”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from trīciēs (“30 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Doublet of tricennial.

suffix

Your forefathers sawe somwhat, whiche made this constitution, against the venalitie and sale of Masses, that vnder peine of suspending, no priest shuld sell his sayinge of tricennals, or annals.

1537, H. Latimer, Sermon to Clergie, E2:

(Christianity, obsolete) Synonym of trental, set of 30 requiem masses, the payment for such services.


Brahmaloka

(Hinduism) The heavenly abode of the god Brahma and goddess Sarasvati.


BIFF

Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
w:Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters

Initialism of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.


ordination mill

en-noun

ordination mill (plural ordination mills)

(religion, derogatory) A religious organization or denomination in which membership is obtainable by trivial means and all members are qualified for self-ordination as a minister of religion without any prior training or work experience.


ASG

Initialism of Abu Sayyaf Group, a militant Islamist group based in the Philippines.

Abu Sayyaf Group

Austrian Standard German
w:Austrian Standard German


religious right

religious right (countable and uncountable, plural religious rights)

However, many members of the religious right don't think prayer in public schools should be commonplace.

socially conservative
social conservative

(uncountable, chiefly US) Right-wing, religious (especially Christian) political movements characterized by their support of socially conservative policies.

The plaintiff argued he had a religious right to wear his headdress although it reduced the effectiveness of his hard hat which is required of all persons on site.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The right for someone to practice their religion.


golden contact

Cleaver’s prominence, in the words of Mario S. De Pillis, made him the “improbable ‘golden contact’” for Mormon missionaries.

2002, Newell G. Bringhurst, “Eldridge Cleaver’s Passage through Mormonism”, in Journal of Mormon History, volume 28, number 1, →JSTOR, page 108:

Golden Contact. A person who knows little or nothing about Mormonism, but is eager to learn.

[2010 January 1, Steven A. Crane, Is Mormonism Now Christian?, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 126:

Already this morning, I have taught a 1st discussion to a new contact—a golden contact, too! You won’t believe this, but his name is Dudley Drane. Despite his name, he’s very interested in the Gospel. It seems he’s retired from the Air Force,[…]

2010 May 28, Wendy Soria, Letters from a Lady Mormon Missionary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

The Elders thought that he might be a golden contact.

2015 March 31, H. David Campbell, The Soul Mates: Their Journey Though Time, iUniverse, →ISBN:

He was what Mormons call a “golden contact” someone who literally is ready from the start to convert. My companion knew the lessons better, but periodically when a melancholy feeling came over him, he let me do the teaching.

2015 May 7, Ignacio M. García, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 136:

(Mormonism) A person who is predisposed or eager to convert to the Mormon faith.


Gayatri Mantra

Borrowed from Sanskrit गायत्री (gāyatrī). Thе mantra is named after Gayatri, the Vedic meter in which the verse is composed.

(Hinduism) a popular mantra in Hinduism, dedicated to the Vedic deity Savitr.


UPG

Initialism of unverified personal gnosis.


Bundahishn

Borrowed from Avestan 𐬠𐬎𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬥𐬍𐬵 (bundahišnīh, literally “primal creation”), being a word from the first sentence of the younger (and longer) of the two recensions of the work.

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The Bundahishn chapter is here given in outline, renderings from West's translation being sometimes adopted verbatim.

1896, A. V. Williams Jackson, “The Ancient Persian Doctrine of A Future Life”, in William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, editors, The Biblical World, New Series: Volume 8, University of Chicago Press, page 162:

1997 [Routledge], Alan Williams, 2: Later Zoroastrianism, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam (editors), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 23,
The Bundahishn is concerned with, among other things, the themes of the creation of the world, the order of things, and the eschatological destiny of both the individual soul and the world at large.

According to Bundahishn, the prophet had exclaimed that with the disintegration of the body and the destruction of matter, the reconstruction of the body would not be possible.

2003, Farhang Mehr, The Zoroastrian Tradition, Mazda Publishers, page 143:

(religion, Zoroastrianism, mythology) An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.


kinnie

(sometimes derogatory) An otherkin, especially a fictionkin.


Wiccatru

'Northern' can refer to any ragbag of Wiccatru slung together to sell a book to suckers.

2001 September 27, Dirk Bruere, “Re: What is Asatru?”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

Interesting? To whom? Asatruar have been laughing at this childish gibberish for almost a decade now, although Wiccans seem to find it very profound. So why are you banging the tin drum for Wiccatru, anyway?

2003 January 11, Rorik, “Re: Wicca-Asatru”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

Some heathens denigrate such practices as “Wiccatru.”

2021, Diana L. Paxson, Essential Asatru: Walking the Path of Norse Paganism, unnumbered page:

(slang, usually derogatory) A syncretic form of Asatru that incorporates Wiccan beliefs, practices, or elements.


Vanatru

From Old Norse vanir (“Vanir”) + trú (“faith”), after the pattern of Ásatrú.

Where Asatru is derived from an Old Norse phrase meaning "True to the Gods [Æsir]," Vanatru is typically focused on the other family of deities listed in Norse mythology, the Vanir.

2010, Nicanthiel Hrafnhild, Sea Sky Soil: An Introduction to Waincraft, unnumbered page:

While this tradition is no worse than any others—and certainly it has been observed that super-traditional mystery-religion Wiccan practice has a strong relationship to Vanatru, or Frey-and-Freya worship—it wasn't the right thing for me.

2013, Raven Kaldera, The Pathwalker's Guide to the Nine Worlds, unnumbered page:

Vanatru and Rokkatru are newer traditions that branched off from Asatru.

2019, Ryan Smith, The Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism, page 9:

A form of Norse neopaganism or Asatru that focuses on veneration of the Vanir deities.


fluff bunny

(Wicca, paganism, slang, derogatory) Synonym of fluffy bunny.


Rokkatru

From Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”) + trú (“faith”), referencing Ragnarok, the apocalyptic battle foretold in Norse mythology, itself from regin (“gods”) + rǫk (“fate, judgment”).

Rokkatru is a form of heathenry that many shy away from. The term Rokk as some people say, means dark or shadow. Rokkatru is a practice of heathenry that deals with worshiping the Jotunar, or the Giants.

2019, Theorodic Dukka, A Heathen's Guide Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, pages 7–8:

Rokkatru is a controversial addendum to the family; in response to the shunning of Loki and his family in American heathenry, some who honor Loki, Angrboða, Fenrir, et al. responded by framing a subset of heathenry that focuses on the Jotuns and forces of chaos (hence the name Rokkatru, referencing faith in the bringers of Ragnarok).

2022, Lea Svendsen, Loki and Sigyn: Lessons on Chaos, Laughter & Loyalty from the Norse Gods, page 89:

A form of Norse neopaganism or Asatru that focuses on veneration of the Jotun and chaotic deities such as Loki.


Nazitru

Ah well. I'll sign off now and exit this newsgroup yet again. The same Nazitru scum as always predominates and I doubt if I could provide enough entertainment to make watching their antics worth it.

1997 November 15, Al Billings, “Nazitru, Race and "Folkish" Asatru”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

The only form of Asatru I am totally agianst is Nazitru and the extreme racialists, […]

2000 March 9, Swain Wodening, “Re: Racialist and Universialist Bigotry”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

Ain't fair to judge a religion based on *cherrypicked* followers. Asatru looks like crap if you only look at the skinhead Nazitru wannabes.

2007 June 7, Scott Lowther, “Re: Being known by long term results ...”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, often used attributively) Any form of Asatru which incorporates or centers white supremacist ideology.

Wotanism

a similar neo-Nazi sect themed after Norse paganism

folkish

Germanic pagan sects with far-right beliefs, US usage


fluffbunny

[…] and I am an Elder of one of the initiatory Trads which does not necessarily subscribe to either the fluffbunny versions of Wicca nor any of the rosier New Age views.

1997 September 7, RMcGuire, “Re: soc.religion.asatru”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

It is a source of acute embarrassment to me that airheaded fluffbunnies like those who began this thread believe they have *anything* in common with Asatruar.

1999 April 30, Rorik, “Re: They WHAT?”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):

My wording in the old description may have been too "fluffy", but that does not make me a stereotypical fluffbunny.

2000 November 15, Ingeborg S. Nordén, “Re: New e-list: Huggy Heathens”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet):


Aum Shinrikyo

Borrowed from Japanese オウム真理教 (Ōmu Shinrikyō).

A Japanese doomsday cult founded in 1987 known for perpetrating sarin attacks in 1994 and 1995.


Sunni Islam

Coordinate term: Shi'a Islam

(Islam) The largest branch of Islam, followed by around 1.7 billion people, whose adherents believe that Muhammad died without appointing a successor, leading to the election of Abu Bakr as the legitimate leader of the Muslim community.


anaphoral

(Christianity) Relating to the anaphora.


myrrhbearer

The refrains of the myrrhbearers give the sense of this service: By the tomb stood an angel radiant in light, and thus did he speak to the myrrh-bearing women:[…]

1982, Sunday Morning: A Time for Worship, The Liturgical Press, →ISBN, pages 60–61:

In the Resurrection narrative of the Gospel of Luke, Mary Magdalene is a myrrhbearer and a messenger. She and the other women with her went to Jesus’ tomb and found the stone rolled away.

2006, Meera Lester, The Everything® Mary Magdalene Book: The Life And Legacy of Jesus’ Most Misunderstood Disciple, F+W Publications, Inc.:

Some Churches celebrate Joanna and the other myrrhbearers on August 3rd.

2017, Katie Munnik, The Pieces We Keep: Stories for the Seasons, Wild Goose Publications, →ISBN, page 58:

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) One of the people who, according to the New Testament, was directly involved in the burial of Jesus or the discovery of his empty tomb following his resurrection.


Pyroeis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πυρόεις (Puróeis).

bor+

The god of the wandering star Ἄρειος (Áreios), or planet Mars


David Miscarriage

Oh yes, there havent been any murders in the last 3 years! Thats good. only a 5 or 6 more suicides. Hever Clench can't be extradited to spain on criminal charges and cant travel to spain, or Greece for that matter anymore, thats good. David Miscarriage is now a named defendant in the death of Lisa McPherson (davie is the top dog in the cult these days)...thats good.

1999 September 18, phils...@my-deja.com, “The GOOD things about Scientology”, in alt.self-improve (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

Enjoy, Xavier, the Xenu:
This is not B-sh-t, is the naked Truth!!!
2000 is the year of the end of C0$
2000 is the beginning of the end of ETERNITY
2000 is the YEAR OF David Miscarriage's SQUIRRELING
Miscarriage, K-ob-RIM, and Mor(xx)on SUCKS!!!

2000 January 31, marcab_4, “Fight the Marcabians !”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

What exactly was it that boomed the orgs? Non-oppressive pricing? The absence of David MisCarriage and his Marcab ClaManagement team? Tech that didnt brainwash people?

2000 November 10, skippy_...@my-deja.com, “A question for Dorsai”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

Say, I reckon David MisCarriage caught syphilis from buggering his pet goat. Now you have to ring up David MisCarriage and ask him if it is true. Maybe it will even start a row between you and him if you do but, hey, that's not MY fault is it??

2001 October 6, Dave Bird, “Shooting the Messenger”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

2002 December 17, Phil Scott, “Was David Miscarriage in bed with his two pals Hitchman and Slatkin?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

(informal, derogatory) David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology since 1986.


Ynglism

Borrowed from Russian инглиизм (ingliizm). May be reanalyzed as Yngling (“a Scandinavian royal dynasty”) + -ism, in analogy with the Russian word.
In Ynglist belief, the name refers to a fiery primordial radiance known as the "Ynglia" emanated by the supreme god "Ramha".

af

(religion, paganism) An esoteric Rodnover (Slavic Neopagan) sect from Russia.


Sabbath Queen

A character, usually portrayed as a beautiful woman, who represents the shechinah and the Jewish Sabbath.


gracelike

en-adj

gracelike (comparative more gracelike, superlative most gracelike)

more gracelike (comparative)
most gracelike (superlative)

On that basis, Wieman proposed, the proper object of religious inquiry remains the phenomenon of gracelike creative transformation.

2003, Gary J. Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology, page 281:

(religion) Resembling or characteristic of grace.


minor order

cleric in minor orders

(Catholicism, historical) One of the orders of the Catholic Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); i.e. the order of acolyte, exorcist, lector or porter.


Iacchos

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Iacchus


Gangtide

From gang + -tide, from gang (“to go”), in reference to the processions held at this time.

(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Rogation Week.


deincarnation

en-noun

deincarnation (countable and uncountable, plural deincarnations)

The law of deincarnation is a law just as well understood among the higher angels as the law of evolution, or of reincarnation. Deincarnation takes place when the incarnated soul concludes to return to mother nature to take upon itself another material body for the purpose of another experience through matter.

1896, William Cleveland, The Religion of Modern Spiritualism and Its Phenomena, page 165:

According to a myth that enshrined the circulatory nature of this North India military service tradition, a bath in a holy tank of Baksar […] ensured a young peasant jawān not only consecration as a Saivite tiger-like warrior, but, importantly, also the promise of a painless deincarnation.

2014, Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook, Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora:

(religion) The process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.


preconciliar

Whether the patriarchal Churches then owed their uniqueness ultimately to their civil position or to their ecclesiastical traditions will be a question to which Chalcedon gives no answer, or rather gives two inconsistent ones. We are thrown back for the solution of the problem on Nicaea and its recognition of the pre-eminence of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch. But since what was recognised at Nicaea was not created there, the investigation belongs rather to the pre-conciliar era of Christianity, and must for the moment be deferred.

1912, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Studies in Early Church History: Collected Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52:

Any theological reconstruction therefore that would be thorough-going and do for our age what the original creators of theology did for theirs in preconciliar periods must face two tasks[…]

1912 November, Shailer Mathews, “The Social Origin of Theology”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 316:

In or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.


great chain of being

great chain of being (plural great chains of being)

Vaſt Chain of Being! which from God began, / Ethereal Eſſence, Spirit, Subſtance, Man, / Beaſt, Bird, Fiſh, Inſect! what no Eye can ſee, / No Glaſs can reach! from Infinite to Thee!

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 235:

If the one spirit permeated all things, if its all-energising presence linked the flower with the crystal as well as with the demon and the god, must it not link together also the two extremes of the great chain of being?

1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., chapter XXV, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 256:

[…]; ourselves being but links in the great chain of being, which begins with the origin of our race, runs onward through its successive generations, binding together the past, the present, and the future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God.

1903 [1820], Daniel Webster, “First Settlement of New England”, in A. J. George, editor, Select Speeches of Daniel Webster 1817–1845:

There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.

1936, A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Harvard University Press, page 205:

In Descartes’s hands, two thousand years later, this hierarchical continuum of living forms, commonly called “the Great Chain of Being,” was polarized into a thorough dichotomy between mechanical, unthinking matter (including all minerals, plants, and animals, as well as the human body) and pure, thinking mind (the exclusive province of humans and God).

1996, David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, →ISBN:

Far from being a radical innovation without precedent, Darwinian evolution had itself evolved by fits and starts out of one of the hoariest concepts in Western civilization, the Great Chain of Being.

2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 5, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

(Christianity, historical) A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, descending from God through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals, and thought in medieval times to have been decreed by God.


dogmatic theology

dogmatic theology (countable and uncountable, plural dogmatic theologies)

(theology) The part of theology dealing with the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and God's works, especially the official theology recognized by an organized Church body.


Hinduland

From Hindu + -land. Compare Dutch Hindoeland, German Hinduland.

An even larger body of water separates the two continents of 'Hinduland' (India) and Confuciania (the Far East plus Indo—China) from each other and from the other continents.

2013, Terry M. Boardman, Mapping the Millennium: Behind the Plans of the New World Order:


Yihewani

In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.

1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:


starlight problem

Young Earth creationism
Young Earth creationism

(creationism, pseudoscience) The conflict between Young Earth creationism (asserting that the universe is thousands of years old) and the starlight-related measurements that show the universe to be billions of years old.


Aquinas

Ellipsis of Thomas Aquinas; an Italian philosopher, theologian and jurist during the 13th century.


doikeyt

Der veg tsu undzer yugnt embodied the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt, or “hereness," an East European Jewish political principle that championed the legitimacy of Jewish communities wherever they found themselves.

1996 08, Deborah Dash Moore, Yivo Annual Volume 23, →ISBN:

By proclaiming a speaker's location as a site where Yiddish can flourish, doikeyt renders any place, however provisionally, as part of yidishland.

2020, Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a Language, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 36:

The focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on making a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism.


suddenism

Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism.

1983, Luis O. Gómez, “The Direct and Gradual Approaches of Zen Master Mahāyāna: Fragments of the Teachings of Mo-ho-yen”, in Robert M. Gimello, Peter N. Gregory, editors, Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen, University of Hawaii Press, page 96:

(Buddhism) The achievement of sudden enlightenment.


catholicosate

The liquidation of the Albanian Catholicosate was long sought by Armenian Catholicoses, especially by Simeon Erevantsi in the second half of the eighteenth century.

2015, Kamala Imranli-Lowe, “Reconstruction of the 'Armenian Homeland' Notion”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 51, number 4, →DOI, page 553:

Similarly to the Jacobites, the Melkites took advantage of the changed political situation and expanded their hierarchy eastward, establishing the "catholicosate of Romagyris".

2022, Alexander Treiger, “From al-Biṭrīq to Ḥunayn: Melkite and Nestorian Translators in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad”, in Mediterranea, volume 7, →DOI, pages 147–148:

(rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos.


naughty list

Certainly connected with, and possibly derived from, the lyrics of a Christmas carol, "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town":
He's makin a list / and checkin it twice / He's gonna find out / who's naughty or nice

According to Christmas folklore, a list kept by Santa Claus of children who have been naughty, and who will therefore not be given as many presents.


Presbyterianly

en-adv

Presbyterianly (comparative more Presbyterianly, superlative most Presbyterianly)

more Presbyterianly (comparative)
most Presbyterianly (superlative)

One is, from that part of the people in any parish who are Presbyterianly inclined.

1894, John Franklin Rowe, A History of Reformatory Movements, page 459:


Old Earth creationist

en-noun

Old Earth creationist (plural Old Earth creationists)

Old Earth creationism
Old Earth creationism


Postvorta

(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Postverta


Postverta

(Roman mythology) An ancient Roman goddess of the past, sister of Antevorta.


shomeret

Coordinate term: shomer

(Judaism) A female who watches over the body of a deceased person in the ritual of shemira.


shemira

(Judaism) The Jewish religious ritual of watching over the body of a deceased person from the time of death until burial.


shomer

Coordinate term: shomeret

(Judaism) A male who watches over the body of a deceased person in the ritual of shemira.


shomer

en-adj

shomer (comparative more shomer, superlative most shomer)

more shomer (comparative)
most shomer (superlative)

He's shomer shabbos, so he won't cook on Saturdays.

(Judaism, of a person) observant, often with regards to a specific set of Jewish laws.


shmita

bor

Hebrew שְׁמִיטָה

The Va·ad recommends that kibbutzim observe some of the sh'mittah laws by letting one field lie fallow as the sh'mittah field, and that they give a percentage of their income to the poor, because that was the original purpose of the law.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 739:


melakhah

en-noun

melakhah (countable and uncountable, plural melakhot)

Borrowed from Hebrew מְלָאכָה (mal'achá, “work; labor; activities forbidden on Sabbath”).

bor+

Thus, carrying an overcoat over one's shoulder is a melakhah, but wearing one is not.

1981, Isidor Grunfeld, The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance, page 59:

Most categories of m'lakhah (activities prohibited on Shabbat and Yom Kippur) are also prohibited on the three pilgrimage festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 725:

I originally learned that it's a problem to use the head of a match here because of the chemical reaction involved, but I'm having trouble figuring out what the melacha would be.

2004 October 11, Ja...@fas.harvard.edu, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat.


unorigination

the unorigination of the Father

(theology) The property of not having originated, but having always existed.


Yarovit

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Gerovit (possibly via Slavic languages), from Old Polabian *Jerovit, from Old Polabian equivalents of Proto-Slavic *jarъ (“vigorous, strong”) + *-o- + *-vitъ.

lbor

god Yarovit

But a clergyman named Dietrich, who had gone ahead of them and had approached the doors of the temple, not knowing where to turn, boldly burst into the shrine itself, and, seeing a golden shield hanging on the wall which had been dedicated to Yarovit, their god of war, and which they considered it unlawful to touch, seized the shield and faced them.

1151, Ebo, chapter 3.8, in Vita Ottonis episcopi bambergensis [Life of Saint Otto, Bishop of Bamberg]:

(Slavic mythology) Polabian god of war worshipped in Wolgast and Havelberg

Ierovit

more accurately corresponding to the Old Polabian pronunciation


partial indulgence

en-noun

partial indulgence (plural partial indulgences)

From partial + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia partiālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.


plenary indulgence

en-noun

plenary indulgence (plural plenary indulgences)

From plenary + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia plēnāria.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.


Tosafot

(historical) Medieval commentaries on the Talmud, in the form of critical and explanatory glosses.


verbenarius

(Ancient Rome, politics, religion, historical) A fetial with the ceremonial function of carrying sacred vervain.


plain dress

A style of clothing emphasizing simplicity and modesty, traditionally worn by several Protestant groups including Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish people, Quakers, and Moravians.


worker-priest

(historical, Christianity) A priest who took up manual labour to experience the everyday life of the working class, and gain the trust of the working class.


witchism

AFAIR, there's no mention of witchiness or otherwise in the conditions, unless it's picked you up a conviction for theft or fraud along the way, in which case you've got a problem. I'd have thought that the biggest problem with witching and being a postie would be sleep deprivation from all those full moon ceremonies clashing with the 5am starts [1]
Rob.
[1] Vagueness and ignorance of witchism deliberate, he said, trying to avert a new thread...

2000 December 7, Rob Linham, “OFF: Ask Umra”, in uk.media.radio.archers (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

> LOL. I know it well enough to teach it in Colleges around the world.
Maybe that's causing some of our worldly problems. What exactly do you teach? Nazism/witchism! Regards, BB

2001 August 27, FuselOil, “What is the culture of the nazis/witches?”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

Bush worships a 40' stone owl and thinks that he, G Dubya Bush, is God. Basic witch-ism. Why else could he think the military has to uphold an oath that he doesn't?

2006 December 26, humbubba, “Hey, Bush, who's our enemy today?”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

What, did you boast to Zephyra that witchism ran in your family?

2010, Kathy Reichs, “The Witch in the Wardrobe” (35:06 from the start), in Bones, season 5, episode 20, spoken by Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz):

Do what you like, where you expect happyness from, the concequences will come. All I'm trying to do is make the case that witchism isn't a way for a lot of happynessr. That is the case no more no less. Better choose wisely because the effects once entrenched can be long lasting.

2010 December 19, jos boersema, “Jesuscult down, worse cults starting up already.”, in alt.messianic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:


goddex

First off: to anyone feeling an iota of guilt for indulging your plant-loving inner green goddex during the pandemic—you stop that right now.

2020 November, Cheryl Rafuse, “Why You Should Quarantine (Your Plants)”, in Boston Compass, page 6:

These days, a Witch or pagan might welcome a warm summer wind as an inherently feminine blessing from a femme goddex, […]

2021, Elliot Director, "The Gender Evolution of Air", in Astraea Taylor, Air Magic, page 56

Thank God, or Goddess, or Goddex we failed and found each other.

2022, Monique Jenkinson, Faux Queen: A Life in Drag, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A genderless or non-binary deity; a deity whose gender is unknown.


sar tan se juda

From Urdu سر تن سے جدا (sar tan seh judā, “separate the head from the body; beheading”), سر (“head”) + تن (“body”) + سے (se, “from”) + جدا (“separate”). Shortening of Urdu گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا (Gustākh-e-Rasūl kī ek hī sazā, sar tan sē judā, “there is only one punishment for insulting the Prophet, cut the head from the body”).

bor

سر تن سے جدا

bor

گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا

2022, Firstpost.comhttps://www.firstpost.com/india/know-origin-of-sar-tan-se-juda-indias-anti-hindu-war-cry-after-nupur-sharmas-controversial-remark-on-prophet-muhammad-11024041.html
‘Sar tan se juda’ is not a new outcry in India. It was first used widely about 5 years ago, when Kamlesh Tiwari of Lucknow gave a statement about Pangbar Mohammad.

This came after protests led by Syed Abdahu Kashaf, an influencer and self-proclaimed social and civil rights activist, who has now defended using the "sar tan se juda" slogan.

(India, Pakistan, Islam) A slogan calling for the killing of blasphemers against Islam.


Lesser Litany

(religion, liturgy) A reference to the versicles and responses, with the Lord's Prayer, that follow the Apostles' Creed at morning prayer and evening prayer.


Book of Nature

A religious and philosophical concept originating in the Latin Middle Ages which views nature as a book to be read for knowledge and understanding.


ultrapapist

(Christianity) A particularly devoted papist.


sambhogakaya

Coordinate term: nirmanakaya

(Buddhism) The second aspect of the Trikaya: a subtle body of limitless form.


Rishonic

(Judaism) Of or relating to the Rishonim.


peshat

Hebrew פְּשָׁט

We use the tools of modern-day p'shat to recover ancient Scripture.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page xx:

(Judaism) A method of interpretation of a text using the face-value, literal meaning.


yetzer hara

Hebrew יֵצֶר הַרַע

According to the Midrash, this [that which God said was "very good" in Gen. 1] includes the egocentric drive, the yeitzer ha-ra, sometimes described as the "evil impulse". Without it, no one would build a house, establish a business, marry, or raise a family.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 11:

(Judaism) The human inclination toward evil.


RCIA

w:Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

(Catholicism) Initialism of Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.


altar bread

(Christianity) Bread which is used in a eucharistic service.


Paracleticon

Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church

(Christianity) An office-book in the Greek Orthodox Church containing the troparia of the whole ferial office for the year.


Iron Crown

(Christianity) A reliquary from the early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.


figurism

(Christianity, historical) An intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.


Sabellianize

en-verb

Sabellianize (third-person singular simple present Sabellianizes, present participle Sabellianizing, simple past and past participle Sabellianized)

Sabellianizes (present singular third-person)
Sabellianizing (participle present)
Sabellianized (participle past)
Sabellianized (past)

(Christianity, intransitive) To practise Sabellianism.


dole bread

en-noun

dole bread (countable and uncountable, plural dole breads)

(religion) Bread which has been given as a dole or bestowed in alms.


sacramental bread

sacramental bread (countable and uncountable, plural sacramental breads)

(religion) The bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist.


singing bread

singing bread (countable and uncountable, plural singing breads)

(religion) A type of wafer used in the celebration of Mass.


bread-skep

(obsolete, dated, religion) A basket or tray in which bread is blessed at the end of a service or congregation.


Nebaioth

bor

Hebrew נְבָיוֹת

(biblical) The first son of Ishmael, according to the Hebrew Bible.


Nestorianize

en-verb

Nestorianize (third-person singular simple present Nestorianizes, present participle Nestorianizing, simple past and past participle Nestorianized)

Nestorianizes (present singular third-person)
Nestorianizing (participle present)
Nestorianized (participle past)
Nestorianized (past)

(Christianity) To teach or follow the Nestorian doctrine.


Burra Din

Borrowed from Hindustani بڑا دن / बड़ा दिन (baṛā din, literally “great day”).

(historical, Anglo-Indian) Any major European festival, especially Christmas Day.


Kissmiss

The saddler, who is also a servant, has brought five trays in honour of kissmiss (Christmas); […]

2003, Fanny Parkes Parlby, William Dalrymple, Begums, Thugs and Englishmen: The Journals of Fanny Parkes, page 95:

“Say 'Merry Christmas,'” I said.
“Merry Kissmiss!” Michael and Mitchell said in unison.

And the little tree, the children's tree, lights up in red, green, blue and yellow, and they gasp and applaud and laugh and say, “Mewwy Kissmiss Mom!”

2016, Neoma Nayrah, The Light Under the Door:

“Yes, we'll bake Christmas cookies for Santa, together.”
“Kissmiss cookies!” Katie exclaimed, clapping her hands and sending berries around the room.

2018, C. F. Frizzell, Crossing the Line:

(nonstandard, childish or pronunciation spelling) Christmas.


Lokapala

intercardinal direction
intercardinal direction

(Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism) Any of a number of gods associated with specific cardinal and intercardinal directions.


tent revival

(religion, Christianity) A gathering of Christian worshipers in a tent erected specifically for revival meetings, evangelism, and healing crusades.


kindom

From kin (“relatives”) + -dom as a more egalitarian or gender-neutral alternative to kingdom.

Jesus continued, "What does the kindom [KJV kingdome] of God resemble? To what will I liken it? […]

1994, Priests for Equality, The Inclusive New Testament, Altamira Press, →ISBN, Luke 13:18, page 126:

The assumption will of be that the concretization of God's kindom always involves an oikonomia or household.

2002, Michael Crosby, The Prayer that Jesus Taught Us, Orbis Books, →ISBN, page 97:

But this is not the Kindom of God that Jesus proclaimed. Let us consider the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price. The Kindom involves both search and surprise.

2019 July 14, Catherine Maresca, “The Pearl and the Hidden Treasure”, in Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand Challenging Stories, Liturgy Training Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

(theology, neologism) A divinely-instituted egalitarian community.


lebai

Borrowed from Malay lebai (“someone who knows a lot about religion, a religious expert”).
The extended sense of "a supporter or member of PAS" was used by opponents to mock the conservative Islamic party's obsession with religious issues, carried over from Malay-language usage.

bor

(Malaysia, derogatory, slang, Islam, religion) a very devout person who behaves in a hypocritical manner.

(Malaysia, derogatory, politics, Internet slang) a member of PAS, a Malaysian conservative Islamist party, especially one who behaves in a hypocritical manner.

(Malaysia, derogatory, politics, Internet slang, by extension) a supporter of PAS.


Hindu Rashtra

Compound of Hindu + Sanskrit राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “state, nation”); possibly an unadapted borrowing from Hindi or another Indian language.

com+

The RSS has been in existence since 1925. It considered the whole of India to be Hindu Rashtra. The way India was partitioned only confirmed the RSS view about Hindu Rashtra which is in keeping with the modern concept of nationalism.

1982, Balraj Madhok, Rationale of Hindu State, page 99:

Even as Pakistan had been declared an Islamic state, India should be declared a Hindu Rashtra, they argued.[…]A nation is a nation but when everyone starts calling it Hindu Rashtra or a Sikh nation or a Muslim nation then it becomes a theocratic State.

1998, The Muse and the Minorities: Social Concerns and Creative Cohesion : International Seminar, Papers and Proceedings, Steering Committee the Muse and Minorities, pages 172, 384:

The end game is the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra, an ethnic democracy predicated on their ideology of Hindutva, an ethno-religious nationalism holding that the cultural values of Hinduism (as interpreted by the Hindu Right) are indistinguishable from the national identity of India.

2021 December 11, Antara Chakraborthy, Pravin Prakash, “Uttar Pradesh 2022: A Blueprint for the Yogi’s Hindu Rashtra”, in The Diplomat:

He said the country is facing “a moment of crisis” with the RSS aiming to turn it into a Hindu Rashtra if it manages to win the next elections.

2022 September 20, “Kerala Governor has mindset of an RSS worker, says CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan”, in The Hindu:

(Hindutva, Hinduism) the (idealised) administration of India under a theocratic government as a Hindu state as sought by Hindu nationalists


spiritual warfare

The Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces, based on the biblical belief in demons or evil spirits.


Gungnir

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Gungnir (“the swaying one”).

lbor

(Norse mythology and paganism) The spear of the Norse god Odin, which is believed to never miss its target.


Confessing Church

(Christianity, historical) A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.


sit under

en-verb

sit under (third-person singular simple present sits under, present participle sitting under, simple past and past participle sat under)

sits under (present singular third-person)
sitting under (participle present)
sat under (participle past)
sat under (past)

(religion) To be in the habit of hearing the preaching or teaching of (someone).


imperial cult

A form of state religion in which an emperor or different type of monarch is worshipped as a demigod or deity, basically a God Emperor.


Extravagantes

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Christianity) Within the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, those papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority.


Elkoshite

(biblical) A member of a minor biblical tribe mentioned in Nahum 1:1.


Collyridianism

(Christianity, historical) An alleged Early Christian heretical movement in Arabia whose adherents apparently worshipped the Virgin Mary as a goddess.


Collyridian

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Collyridianism.


Collyridian

(Christianity, historical, mostly plural) A member of the Collyridianism movement.


consolamentum

(Christianity, historical) The unique sacrament ritual of the Cathars.


Khepri

(Egyptian mythology) A scarab-faced god who represents the rising or morning sun.


Khepera

Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual.

1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Khepri


antiepiscopal

en-adj

antiepiscopal (comparative more antiepiscopal, superlative most antiepiscopal)

more antiepiscopal (comparative)
most antiepiscopal (superlative)

(Christianity) Opposing the bishops, or episcopacy.


Christcuck

Why was
Leo X surrounded by Jews? Was he a Jew? Or a Christcuck
who thought that Jews knew childish secrets about Jesus
and the Bible, such that, he couldn't resist the Jewish
mouse-trap?

2018 August 4, D. Schlenk, “Treachery of the Catholic Church”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet):

You fucking Jewcucks are All faggots.
You fucking Christcucks are All faggots.
You fucking Muslimcucks are All faggots.

2019 July 17, LORD God Almighty, “You fucking Christcucks are All faggots.”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

Of course, the Christcucks are the Jew's bitches.
Goyim as they're called.

2020 August 5, eohoe, “Secret Apparatus”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

(Internet slang, religious slur, offensive, nonstandard) A Christian.


raise to the purple

en-verb

raise to the purple (third-person singular simple present raises to the purple, present participle raising to the purple, simple past and past participle raised to the purple)

raises to the purple (present singular third-person)
raising to the purple (participle present)
raised to the purple (participle past)
raised to the purple (past)

(idiomatic, figurative) To be elevated to a very high rank.

(Christianity, figurative) To become a cardinal.

To be elevated to a very high rank.
To become a cardinal.

(Christianity, figurative) To become a monarch.

To be elevated to a very high rank.
To become a monarch.


Bickertonite

(historical, Mormonism) A member of the Church of Jesus Christ founded in 1862 in Pennsylvania.


Issacharite

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

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


chrisom child

So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.

It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."

1892, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, page 148:

There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.

1897, John Charles Cox, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, page 191:

As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.

1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118:

Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.

2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281:

(Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism.


Munkar

(Islam) One of two angels (the other being Nakir) said to test the faith of the dead in their graves.


Tantra

(Hinduism, Buddhism) The esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards.


Itihasa

Borrowed from Sanskrit इतिहास (itihāsa).

(Hinduism) The collection of written descriptions of important events in Hinduism, including the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Ramayana.


Jaunpuri

en-adj

Jaunpuri (comparative more Jaunpuri, superlative most Jaunpuri)

more Jaunpuri (comparative)
most Jaunpuri (superlative)

(Islam) Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.


Jaunpuri

(Islam) A follower of the Jaunpuri tradition.


Cosmocrat

He chose, on the contrary, to be installed as World-Ruler and Cosmocrat at the completion of a mission of self-humbling and lowly obedience unto death.

1971, John G. Gibbs, Creation and Redemption: A Study in Pauline Theology, Page 83


sin money

en-noun

sin money (countable and uncountable, plural sin moneys)

(religion) Money which is offered in order to expiate one's sins.


Missourianism

(Christianity) The beliefs and practices of the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.


anti-Remonstrant

(Protestantism, historical) One who opposed the Remonstrants.


Christmas comes early

Then he turns to Rhaenys, who, he reasonably argues, is the best authority on what her husband would want. And Christmas comes early for Rhaenyra, because not only has her dad come out to support her family, but her aunt also backs Luke’s claim—and accepts her niece’s offer of a Targaryen-Velaryon double wedding.

2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:

A large number of fortuitous events come at the same time.

think all one's Christmases have come at once


anti-Gallicanism

But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.

1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200:

(Christianity) Opposition to Gallicanism.


king of the north

There the dragon muſtering all his forces doth goe to a place called Armageddon , to cut off, and deſtroy utterly , but he doth bring deſtruction upon himſelfe , for that next viall doth powre out the laſt deſtruction upon all Gods enemies. Here the King of the North ſhall goe forth with great furie in the glorious holy mountaine , to deſtroy , and utterly cut off many , but he ſhal come to his end , and none ſhal help him.

1664, Thomas Brightman, The Revelation of Saint Iohn, Illustrated with Analysis and Scholions, →OCLC, page 313, column 2:

We're living in electrifying days of fulfillment of ancient Biblical prophecies. At just the time that the predicted King of the North is making obvious moves toward securing a foothold in the Middle East, and that whole part of the world has become the focal point of all nations, this clear and timely exposition of Ezekiel 38 and 39 setting forth Russia as this King of the North couldn't be more relevant.

1974, Hal Lindsey, “Foreward”, in The Coming Russian Invasion of Israel, Chicago: Moody Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

²¹ With the disbanding of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the king of the north suffered a serious setback.

1999, Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy!, Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, →OL, page 280:

2. The Gog of Ezekiel 38 is the same leader as the king of the North of Daniel 11:40.[…]
4. Gog, representing Russia (as the king of the North), invades Israel and is defeated by God, or is defeated by the Antichrist.

2006, Douglas Berner, “Parallel Passages in Scripture to Ezekiel 38-39?”, in The Silence is Broken! God Hooks Ezekiel's Gog & Magog, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 246:

(theology, eschatology) A major leader in Armageddon, in modern religious speculation often identified with Russia.


Bangabhumi

Borrowed from Bengali বঙ্গভূমি (boṅgobhumi, “Land of Vanga”).

bor

(now) A sovereign state proposed by separatists to be established as a homeland for Bengali Hindus.


touch assist

(Scientology) The pseudoscientific practice of touching a person who is injured or ill for the purpose of healing.


Azoara

Now let us see the Doctrine contained in this booke […] naming the Chapter or Azoara, where the Reader may finde each sentence.

1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimage; Or, Relations of the World and the Religions […] , page 251:

Lastly, as we have the joint assent of Jews and Gentiles, so of Mahomet himself, in the Azoara's of his Law, which give suffrage to the Evangelical Writings.

1693, John Edwards, A Discourse concerning the Authority, Stile and Perfection of the Old and New Testament […] , pages 408–409:

Mahomet frequently upbraids the Christians with these controversies; particularly in Azoara xxvi. xxxii.

1814, Hugo Grotius, translated by Spencer Madan, An English Translation of the Six Books of Hugo Grotius, on the Truth of Christianity […] , page 404:

(obsolete, Islam) sura (chapter of the Qurʾān)


Great Assize

The complete report cannot be rendered until the books are opened at the Great Assize. Then many shall rise up and call its members blessed […]

1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City: or, The Churches’ Answer to the Bitter Cry of Outcast, page 63:

But none of these authorities seem to establish the Great Assize and the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds as a future, far-off event to be literally expected.

1896, Hugh Reginald Haweis, The Dead Pulpit, page 258:

The gehenna of corpses after the destruction of Gog’s army may naturally be identified with the gehenna of the Great Assize, which had become an accepted article of belief since Ezekiel’s day.

1949, Austin Farrer, A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John’s Apocalypse, page 302:

(archaic, Christianity) the Last Judgment


Nanna-Suen

(Mesopotamian mythology) Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)


Neo-orthodox

(Christianity, theology) Of or relating to Neo-orthodoxy.


holytide

[…] and do not know how the critical days of the great siege are there kept as festivals practically of more account than the common holytides of Christendom; […]

1886, Arthur Cayley Headlam, The Church Quarterly Review, volume 22, page 233:

(religion) A holy day, or religious festival.


Kuru

(Hinduism, historical) an ancient kingdom, mentioned in the Mahabharata.


action sermon

The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.

2008, Duncan B. Forrester, Doug Gay, Worship and Liturgy in Context, scm Press, page 88:

(Christianity) Α sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church, especially that preached right before communion.


ordination hall

(Buddhism) a Buddhist building specifically consecrated and designated for the performance of the Buddhist ordination ritual and other rites


Introibo

/ˈɪntɹəʊiːbəʊ/

From Ecclesiastical Latin introībō ad altāre Deī (“I shall go in towards the altar of God”), the first line spoken.

At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St. John in the Apocalypse, standing before the altar and bearing a golden censer.

1959, Henri Béchard, The Visions of Bernard Francis de Hoyos, S.J.: Apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain, a Biography, page 72:

In place of the humble but hopeful supplication of the Introibo, we have the narcissistic, desperate anguish of 1, punctuated by a blues refrain in the key of death and loss, drunkenness, violence, and sexuality.

1964, John William Corrington, The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems, page 9:

As imposing and plump as Buck Mulligan standing on top of a spiral stairway whilst intoning an “Introibo”, his slowly magnifying body brings to mind a purplish balloon, of a sort that you might buy for your child in Parc Montsouris.

1994, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void, page 273:

(Roman Catholicism) The prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.


Subhūti

Transliteration of Sanskrit सुभूति (subhūti) or Pali Subhūti.

translit

(Buddhism) One of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha.


Katyayana

Transliteration of Sanskrit कात्यायन (kātyāyana)


Zarathustricism

(rare, religion) The teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions.


Loyolite

From Loyola + -ite. Named after Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), who founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus.

(Catholicism, archaic) A Jesuit; a member of the Society of Jesus.


Gilbertine

From Gilbert + -ine. Named after Gilbert of Sempringham (c. 1085 – 1189), who founded the order.

(Catholicism) A member of the Gilbertine Order, an English religious order founded around 1130 in Sempringham, Lincolnshire.


innerstanding

(spiritualism) Comprehension of one's own purported innate knowledge.


Arnoldist

From Arnold + -ist, after Arnold of Brescia.

(Christianity, historical) A member of a Proto-Protestant Christian movement of the 12th century that opposed infant baptism, the Eucharist, and the material wealth of the Roman Catholic Church.


purushartha

(Hinduism) Any of four proper goals or aims of a human life: dharma, artha, kama, and moksha.


redeemership

The role or status of a redeemer, specifically (Christianity) Christ the Redeemer.


Reformati

(Christianity) A certain order of Franciscans.


Rellyan

(Christianity, historical) A religious follower of James Relly, who maintained the doctrine of universal restoration, upon high Calvinistic principles.


ecumenical council

en-noun

ecumenical council (plural ecumenical councils)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin oecūmenicum concilium.

calque

[…] in 1215, the Maronite patriarch visited Rome and participated in an ecumenical council.

2016, David S. Sorenson, An Introduction to the Modern Middle East: History, Religion, Political Economy, Politics, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 80:

(Christianity) A church council to which bishops from the entire world are invited, held by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians to be infallible in its decisions on faith and morals when certain conditions are met.


Höðr

(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.


vespertide

And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone

1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356:

And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower

1860, Jane Crewdson, “The Hermit of Livry”, in Lays of the Reformation, and Other Lyrics, Scriptural and Miscellaneous, page 101:

At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.

1895, “John Zizka”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume 72, page 351:

(poetic, archaic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed


tree topper

A decorative ornament placed on the top of a Christmas tree, often in the form of a star or angel.


Baiame

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A creator and sky deity


Trinitytide

[…] in 1779 he printed a Latin oration which he had delivered in the chapel of his college at Trinitytide.

1894, William Prideaux Courtney, “Mathias, Thomas James”, in edited by Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 37, page 47:

Henry followed up these steps to build up his power in South Germany by planning a military campaign in Saxony against Rudolf. It was a concern of his Trinitytide court at Nuremberg, and of a subsequent visit to Mainz and the middle Rhineland.

1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 178:

(Christianity) Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, or the period around it.

Whereas the Extraordinary Form counts Sundays after Pentecost, Divine Worship follows the traditional Anglican practice of numbering Sundays after Trinity Sunday. Trinitytide concludes with the celebration of Christ the King on the Sunday prior to the first Sunday of Advent.

2021, Steven J. Lopes, “The worship of God in the beauty of holiness: A presentation of Divine Worship”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, →ISBN, page 59:

(Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism) The season of the liturgical year from Trinity Sunday to Advent.


MEST

Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as an acronym of matter, energy, space and time.

acronym

(Scientology, often attributive) The physical universe, the universe of sensory perception.


sermon-proof

en-adj

sermon-proof (comparative more sermon-proof, superlative most sermon-proof)

more sermon-proof (comparative)
most sermon-proof (superlative)

(Christianity) Resistant to the lessons in morality conveyed by sermons; unregenerate.


immaculism

Although the Dominicans continuously disapproved of immaculism, the conflict became considerably fiercer in the aftermath of the Council of Basel (1431–1449), when the Immaculate Conception was elevated to a dogma.

2020, Racha Kirakosian, “Introduction”, in The Life of Christina of Hane, →ISBN, page xxx:

Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception

(Christianity) Belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.


maculism

From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.

As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].

2016, Trent Pomplun, “Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary”, in Ulrich Lehner et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, →ISBN, page 115:

(Christianity) Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.


by the Grace of Allah

By the Grace of Allah, we, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, [suffixes of various orders and medals], the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of the Sovereign State and Territory of Brunei Darussalam and all its Dependencies. To all to whom these presents shall come.

2016, Sultan of Brunei, “Proclamation and Notice under Article 52(2) (S 8/2016)”, in Brunei Durassalam Government Gazette:

By His Majesty His The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, by the Grace of Allah, Supreme Head of the States and Territories of Malaysia […]

2022, Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Malaysia, “Proclamation—Summon Parliament (P.U. (A) 371/2022)”, in Federal Government Gazette, archived from the original on 2022-12-01:


Ordinary Form

Back-formation from Extraordinary Form; see there for more.

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite introduced after the Second Vatican Council, usually celebrated in the vernacular.


Dissentism

The natural man will be carried away, and will flit about with the wind of every false doctrine. Protestantism may go over to Puseyism; Dissentism may go over to Congregationalism; and all may merge into Catholicism; but what of all that?

1851, Joseph Irons, Zion has nothing to fear from Popery, page 4:

Is it a second Church-of-England establishment, created out of the taxes, in order to strengthen the patronage of the executive power, according to its imaginary requirements, from the healthy growth of Protestant dissentism?

1859, William Chadwick, The Life and Times of Daniel Defoe, John Russell Smith, →ISBN, page 44:

The present study examines an aspect of Green's professional and political life that has been noted but never adequately explained by previous studies — namely, his philo-Dissentism.

2004, Denys Leighton, The Greenian Moment, Imprint Academic, →ISBN:

(historical, Protestantism) The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.


personal ordinariate

en-noun

personal ordinariate (plural personal ordinariates)

From ordinariate, the office or jurisdiction of a church ordinary; personal by analogy with personal prelature, implying that members are part of the ordinariate as individual persons, rather than because they live in a particular diocesan territory.

(Roman Catholicism) A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.


Precious Blood

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin pretiōsus sanguis.

calque

As the month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so the present month is dedicated to the Precious Blood.

1885, “The Precious Blood”, in Franciscan Annals, volume 9, number 103, page 193:

This was almost a parody of the procession conducted by Henry III when he took the Precious Blood to the raised shrine of Edward the Confessor.

2003, Valerie I. J. Flint, “Conversion and Compromise in Thirteenth-Century England”, in Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton, editors, Conversion: Old Worlds and New, →ISBN, page 19:

His palms were anointed with chrism and the oil of catechumens; he alone among laymen could now handle the chalice and drink of the Precious Blood at Mass.

2010, Elena Maria Vidal, Madame Royale: A Novel, →ISBN, page 253:

(Roman Catholicism) The blood of Jesus Christ, especially in the form it is believed to take in the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.


Extraordinary Form

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin forma extraordinaria, coined by Benedict XVI in 2007 in Summorum pontificum, which referred to the Tridentine Mass as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

As noted above, communities adhering to the extraordinary form follow the calendar in force in 1962.

2013, The Liturgy Documents: Supplemental Documents for Parish Worship, Devotions, Formation and Catechesis, volume 4, page 642:

But what about the Extraordinary Form? How is the Traditional liturgy enriched by the New Mass?

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 173:

It needs to be admitted that Benedict XVI, in his letter to bishops accompanying the motu proprio, also noted something not asserted in prior documents, namely, that many young people are attracted to the Extraordinary Form and should not be denied its celebration.

2018, Kevin M. Irwin, Context and Text: A Method for Liturgical Theology, revised edition:

(Roman Catholicism) The Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.


Ordinariate

Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).

2013, Gerard Mannion, “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming?”, in Martyn Percy, Robert Boak Slocum, editors, Point of Balance: The Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, page 116:

[…] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]

2018, Clinton Allen Brand, “Very Members Incorporate: Reflections on the Sacral Language of Divine Worship”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its Renewal, page 197:

But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.

2021, Timothy P. Perkins, “The evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, page 65:

personal ordinariate
personal ordinariate

(Roman Catholicism) The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.


cosmocrator

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek κοσμοκράτωρ (kosmokrátōr, “cosmocrator”), from κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + κράτωρ (krátōr, “ruler”).

compound

Cosmocrator — in Valentinian gnosticism, Cosmocrator is ruler of the material cosmos in the guise of Diabolos (the devil). His consort is Barbelo and together "they sing praises to the Powers of the Light," which would indicate that Cosmocrator is not wholly evil.

1967, Gustav Davidson, Dictionary of Angels, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 89:

In the same vein, according to the Jewish lists of ten cosmocrators the tenth and last king will be God himself.

1972, Israel Oriental Studies, volume 2, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University., page 171:

It is the confluence of Old Testament and Hellenistic terminology that makes him more than a mere cultic hero or lord; he is cosmocrator, lord of the cosmos, for the powers in v. 10 are cosmic powers.

2004, Jack T. Sanders, The New Testament Christological Hymns, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Pursuing the same project with the same ontological purpose, Proclus will later admit the seven cosmocrators as the seven planets into his Neoplatonist scheme. "The planets are called 'cosmocrators'" but they are no longer rebellious aeons fragmenting the pleroma through their ignorance.

2015, Revd Allen Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order, Brill, →ISBN, page 293:

In addition to the Demiurge, they also speak of a Cosmocrator (ruler of the world) and of evil spirits.

2020, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Christian Gnosis, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

(chiefly religion) A ruler of the entire world or cosmos.


Vlogmas

Only the bravest online celebrities dare to take on Vlogmas. […] Are you ready to give Vlogmas your very own spin? How would the intro to your Christmas countdown look?

2016, Vlog It!: The Yearbook, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN:

What motivated you to open up about your student debt at this point? […] [Aja Dang:] Then I opened up during Vlogmas. Vlogmas is during December, you vlog every single day. There’s not necessarily a rhyme or reason for it, you just do it. You show people your day. My day happened to be trying to pay off my student loan payment for the month.

2018 May 23, Amanda Duberman, “This Influencer Is Using YouTube To Speak Frankly About Student Loan Debt”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2019-02-14:

I was going to say, when we talk tomorrow, we need to discuss your strategy for Vlogmas.

2019, Sophie Ranald, Out with the Ex, in with the New, Bookouture, →ISBN:

And, on the countdown to Christmas, the couple go one step further – recording a video every single day in December, as part of ‘Vlogmas’.

2022 November 1, “Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley”, in Best:

(Internet) A Christmas celebration that involves publishing a vlog every day in December until Christmas.


Advent wreath

Local custom gives us an “Advent Tree” or “Advent Wreath”: the trees are diminutive Christmas trees, which bear one candle for each Sunday in Advent; the wreaths are wooden rings with as many holes as there are days before Christmas Eve, decorated with fir green, and gay ribbons, and hung up over the dining-table, one candle being added every night till the circle is complete.

1929 December 28, “Correspondence: A Letter from Oberammergau. [To the Editor of the Spectator.]”, in The Spectator, volume 143, number 5296, page 972:

(Christianity) A usually evergreen wreath adorned with four (or sometimes five) candles, the first of which is lit on Advent Sunday, followed by the lighting of an additional candle on each subsequent Sunday.

adventskrans

usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles


CWOB

Consequently, although the primacy and priority of God's grace is affirmed in the practice of CWOB, the way that grace acts in repentance, redemption, justification and glorification is not explored.

2012, Michael Tuck, “Who Is Invited to the Feast? A Critique of the Practice of Communion Without Baptism”, in Worship, volume 86, number 6, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, →OCLC, page 517:

Some advocate the CWOB path as one that will attract Millennials and others to the church since CWOB illustrates the openness and inclusivity of the church.

2013 May, Armand J. Boehme, “The Church and the Culture of the Millennials”, in Missio Apostolica, volume 21, number 1, St. Louis, Missouri: Lutheran Society for Missiology, →ISSN, page 110:

Indeed, on my view CWOB is more problematic for interfaith relations than the specific liturgical/sacramental understanding of the term, “People of God.”

2023, Robert MacSwain, “Touching the Third (Altar) Rail: Lessons Learned About Theological Discourse on Baptism and Eucharist in the Episcopal Church”, in Anglican Theological Review, volume 105, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 204:

(Christianity) Abbreviation of communion without baptism.


ghostly father

My ghostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you,
That at a window,—wot ye how?—

c. 1415-1440 (date written), Charles, Duke of Orléans, reproduced by E. K. Chambers, Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial (1907), p. 31

Now will I to my Ghostly fathers Cell, / His Help to craue, and my good hap to tell.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

Therfore I saye, that a general confession only in saying to a Ghostly Father, I am a sinner without specifying the deadly sinnes in particular, is no sufficient knowledge for the Ghostly Father to iudge rightly of euery sinner, that demandeth absolution of him, whose sinnes are to be remitted, and whose sinnes are to be retained.

1625, Louis of Granada, translated by Richard Hopkins, A Memoriall of a Christian Life […] , page 184:

About the latter End of January, 1676, Thomas Thwing, a Priest, and William Rushton, another Popish Priest, who was my ghostly Father, came to my House at Shippon Hall, in Yorkshire […]

1680, The Papists bloody Oath of Secrecy […] ; republished as Samuel Johnson, William Oldys, editors, The Harleian Miscellany […] , volume 7, 1746, page 274:

The second remedy is frequent confession to a discreet ghostly father.

1741, Charles Gobinet, The Instruction of Youth in Christian Piety […] , volume 1, page 172:

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears one’s confessions)


sacramentalize

en-verb

sacramentalize (third-person singular simple present sacramentalizes, present participle sacramentalizing, simple past and past participle sacramentalized)

sacramentalizes (present singular third-person)
sacramentalizing (participle present)
sacramentalized (participle past)
sacramentalized (past)

Jack now sought to have their marriage sacramentalized, but the bishop refused.

2008, Marie A. Conn, C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows, HiddenSpring, page 18:

Marriage is the only human relationship that is, or will ever be, sacramentalized.

2014, John Clark, “A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship”, in Seton Magazine:

(transitive, Christianity) To make sacramental.

A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.

2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!, National Catholic Register:

(transitive, Catholicism) To receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.


Oratory

(Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.


Raskol

Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church

(Christianity, historical) A mid-17th-century schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to establish uniformity between Greek and Russian church practices.


ACNA

Anglican Church in North America
w:Anglican Church in North America

(Anglicanism) Initialism of Anglican Church in North America.


prince-primate

en-noun

prince-primate (plural prince-primates or princes-primate)

prince-primates (plural)
princes-primate (plural)

From prince + primate, a calque of German Fürstprimas. In the case of the archbishop of Esztergom, the title derived from his status as primate of Hungary and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire from 1715.

vorst-primaat

Soon, on the right, appears the cathedral of Grann [Esztergom], a miniature of St. Peter’s, in something like red porphyry, built within this century by the prince-primates, at their own private expense […]

1884, John Fallon, “From Passau to Pesth, along the Danube. Part II”, in The Irish Monthly, volume 12, page 453:

These factors may have convinced Pope Pius XII to pass over other figures in the Hungarian Church and select Mindszenty in August 1945 to be cardinal at Esztergom and thus prince-primate of Hungary.

2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 228:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) An honorary title given to an especially prominent archbishop with certain secular prerogatives, in particular:

The act of the Confederation also seemed to hold forth some hope that the new federation might develop a growing community of its German member states. Apart from the presidency of the prince-primate, it mentioned the establishment of two colleges, those of the kings and princes.

1964, Hajo Holborn, A History of Modern Germany, 1648–1840, page 371:

Confederation of the Rhine
Confederation of the Rhine

The prince-primate of the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, Karl von Dalberg.


Dutch touch

apostolic succession
apostolic succession

(Anglicanism) The co-consecration of Anglican holy orders by Old Catholic (Union of Utrecht) bishops, supposedly bolstering claims of apostolic succession, as the Roman Catholic Church considers UU bishops to be validly ordained.


Neolog

Borrowed from Hungarian neológ, a 19th-century coinage from Ancient Greek νεός (neós, “new”) + λόγος (lógos, “word; teaching, doctrine”), equivalent to English neologist.

(Judaism) Pertaining to a liberal and reformist current of Hungarian Judaism.


Neolog

The Neologs were known for their deep sense of patriotism to Hungary.

1988, Arieh Ben-Tov, Facing the Holocaust in Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in Hungary, 1943–1945, →ISBN, page 67:


kiss of charity

kiss of charity (plural kisses of charity)

(Christianity) Synonym of kiss of peace.


hypostatic union

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin ūniō hypostatica, from Byzantine Greek ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν (hénōsis kath’ hupóstasin, literally “union according to the hypostasis”).

der

ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν

(theology) In Chalcedonian Christianity, the unity of the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human, in a single individual person or hypostasis.


Zionist entity

Calque of Arabic الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyūniyy). First use appears c. 1956. See citations page.

calque

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

Coordinate term: Isn'treal

(Middle East, derogatory, dysphemistic) Israel, viewed by Palestinians and their supporters as an illegitimate regime ruled by Zionists.

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

a pejorative term for the State of Israel


O Antiphon

(Western Christianity) One of the antiphons sung or read at vespers at the end of Advent, in the days immediately before Christmas, each beginning “O …” in Latin and English, addressing Christ and beseeching him to come; the basis for the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.


Yule lad

Calque of Icelandic jólasveinn. Compare also Yule swain.

One of several trolls, children of the ogress Grýla, who, according to Icelandic folktales, arrive one each day from December 12th through December 25, and leave one each night from December 25 through January 6. The Yule lads are associated with tricks and mischief, but also with carrying off naughty children in a burlap bag and eating them.


Quran Belt

Derived from Quran and Bible Belt (“a region where conservative Christian beliefs are predominant”).

(Islam) A region where conservative Muslim beliefs are a predominant part of the local culture.

(Malaysia, specifically) Kelantan and Terengganu, two states in Peninsular Malaysia that practice a stricter form of Islam.

lebai

slang term for strict Muslims, especially supporters of the conservative PAS party that predominates Kelantan

PAS

Islamist conservative political party that is dominant in the two Malaysian states


Melkitism

That this is less true of the Syriac tradition may be attributed to the Nestorian Christians’ preference for Muslim rule and culture as opposed to the Melkitism proposed by Constantinople.

Melkitism is known to be the form of Christianity which was to be divided into Catholic and Orthodox churches.

2013, Sabri Yılmaz, “A Muslim theologian’s approach to the doctrine of the Trinity: The case of Qadi ‘Abd al-Jabbar”, in The Journal of International Social Research, volume 6, number 24, page 427, note 3:

The acceptance of Arab conquest served as a means of escaping the doctrinal predicament that most Egyptians found themselves enmeshed in between monophysitism and melkitism.

2015, Adeshina Afolayan, “Egypt, Arab Republic of (Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah)”, in edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, volume 2, →ISBN, page 382:

(historical, rare) Support for the imperial Byzantine church and the Council of Chalcedon during the Monophysite controversies from the 5th century onwards.


Bethzatha

From Ancient Greek Βηθζαθά (Bēthzathá), a variation appearing in some manuscripts of the Gospel of John.

This article undertakes a study of two Johannine stories – John 5:1-47 (of the healing of the man at the pool of Bethzatha) and John 9:1-41 (the healing of the man born blind) – to discover the meaning and purpose of the evangelist's use of these narratives, and their implications for understanding sickness and healing from faith perspective.

2012, G. N. Uzukwu, “The Disabled in the Gospel of John”, in Sapientia Logos, volume 5, number 1, Jos: Hokma House, →ISSN, page 39:

Bethzatha (v. 2) is where people with illnesses and/or disabilities lie and wait in hope of obtaining healing and relief, which is evidently thought to be obtained by the first person who enters the pool when its waters are mysteriously "troubled."

2021, M. E. Sousa, Sin, the Human Predicament, and Salvation in the Gospel of John, London: T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 54:

(biblical) Alternative form of Bethesda.


Messianic

One who follows the religion of Messianic Judaism.


free church

Popularised in the late 19th century on the model of the Scottish Free Church formed in 1843.

(Christianity) A Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government, and neither defines government policy nor accepts theology, policy, or funding from the state.


Neocatechumenal

Borrowed from Spanish Neocatecumenal, equivalent to neo- + catechumenal.

In short, the ritual life of a Neocatechumenal community consists of at least two liturgical events per week.

2007, Goran Pavel Šantek, “Becoming Sacred: The Use of the Body in Identity Transformation”, in Senses and Religion, →ISBN, page 76:

(Roman Catholicism) Of or pertaining to the Neocatechumenal Way, a community-based Catholic movement founded in Madrid in 1964.


cross the Tiber

en-verb

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

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

(idiomatic) Alternative form of swim the Tiber


upstat

From up- + stat, from stat (“statistic”).

(Scientology) A successful person who is making progress.


downstat

From down- + stat, from stat (“statistic”).

(Scientology) An unsuccessful person who is failing to make progress.