Zombie Jesus

From an (anachronistic) reinterpretation of the resurrection of Jesus as zombification.

But do you honestly think that Jesus' limp corpse could be magically brought back to life by an invisible magician in the sky just so Zombie Jesus can give you everlasting life?

2010, Adam McClaran, Jesus Cries When You Touch Yourself, page 113:

(derogatory, humorous, potentially offensive) Jesus Christ, after having resurrected.


minch

From Middle English mynche, a reduced form of minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk.


minch

en-verb

minch (third-person singular simple present minches, present participle minching, simple past and past participle minched)

minches (present singular third-person)
minching (participle present)
minched (participle past)
minched (past)

From Middle English menchen, a variant of mincen. More at mince.


minch

William Henry opened the gates for them along the return journey, and at the lodge accepted shamefacedly a penny and a promise of the bad end little boys came to who minched from school.

Alternative form of mitch (“play truant from school”)


Old Scratch

Probably an alteration of scrat, from Middle English scrat, skratt, scratte, ultimately from Old Norse skratti (“a type of demon”).

“Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”

1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

w:The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
w:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

(chiefly Midland US, Southern US) The Devil.


discrimen

en-noun

discrimen (plural discrimina or discrimens)

Some years ago James Gustafson advanced the thesis that any comprehensive and systematic account of theological ethics must have a central "discrimen" - an organizing perspective, principle, metaphor or analogy around which it is structured. That discrimen must relate in a coherent fashion four "base points": an understanding of God and God's purposes in relation to humans and the rest of creation; an interpretation of the significance of "the world" and human life in it; an interpretation of human moral agency and actionsl and an interpretation of how we ought to make moral choices and judgements.

1995, James B. Tubbs Jr, Christian Theology and Medical Ethics: Four Contemporary Approaches, →ISBN:

The discrimen, or pattern, that each theologian eventually chooses is his or her own distinctive construal of the discrimen that guides his or her critical theological judgements.

2000, Cleophus James LaRue, The Heart of Black Preaching, →ISBN, page 18:

And if we were to link this discrimen to Balthasar's synoptic judgment about what Christianity is all about, then it would be associated with humanity's participation in God as that is realized in God's incarnation in the person Jesus Christ. I do not wish to imply that these two discrimens are the only two with which Balthasar operated.

2003, William Thomas Dickens, Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics, →ISBN:

But if discrimen is a cardinal virtue of adulthood, the tenets of infantilism work against it. Discrimen requires right judgement; but the idea of something, even judgment, being 'right', is in profound conflict with individualism (which says I can only claim my judgement as being right for me).

2012, Michael Bywater, Big Babies: Or: Why Can't We Just Grow Up?, →ISBN:

(theology) A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.


hegumen

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἡγούμενος (hēgoúmenos, “leader”).

der

From 1517 to 1637 a total of 19 Kirillov hegumens were transferred to other influential positions, and nine of them were raised to episcopal seats.

2015, Ines Angeli Murzaku, Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics:

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

(Christianity) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.


adelphopoiesis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀδελφοποίησις (adelphopoíēsis), from ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”) + ποίησις (poíēsis, “creation”). By surface analysis, adelpho- + -poiesis.

bor

ἀδελφοποίησις

surf

(history, Christianity) A ceremony where males are unionised with one another.

vëllamësi

a ceremony where two men are united with one another


cataphatic

From Ancient Greek καταφατικός (kataphatikós, “affirmative”).

der

(theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).

cataphatique

pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is


Naraka

(Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism) The underworld or Hell according to Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism, where souls are sent for the expiation of their sins.


Number of the Beast

(Christianity) The number 666, esoterically regarded as being related to the Beast.


Cush

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

bor+

(biblical) The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.

(biblical) A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.


asur

(India, Hinduism) Alternative spelling of Asura.


Mohammedanism

From the earlier form Mahometanism; equivalent to Muhammadan + -ism; compare Muhammadism, coined in the 17th century after French mahométisme.

In a general estimate of Mohammedanism it should not be forgotten what Islam has done for the cause of humanity and more particularly the share it had in the development of science and art in Europe. Broadly speaking, the Mohammedans may be said to have been the teachers of barbarous Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. It is from the days of the Abbasside rulers that the real renaissance of the Greek spirit and Greek culture is to be dated.

1905, “Mohammedanism”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company:

(now largely obsolete and offensive) The religion introduced by Muhammad: Islam.

Mahommetanism

all as obsolete as the lemma (Mohammedanism), or more obsolete than it


Haggadah

en-proper noun

Haggadah (plural Haggadahs or Haggadot or Haggadoth)

Haggadahs (plural)
Haggadot (plural)
Haggadoth (plural)

(Judaism) The text which is recited at Seder during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus.


preclear

(Scientology) One who has not yet reached a "clear" state (in which they are free from engrams).


ziara

(Islam) A visit to a holy place; a pilgrimage.


Super Saturday

(US) The last Saturday before Christmas, a major day of revenue for retailers.


euhemerization

en-noun

euhemerization (countable and uncountable, plural euhemerizations)

/juːˌhiːməɹɪzˈeɪʃən/

From euhemerize + -ation, ultimately from Latin Euhēmerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros), an ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic who proposed most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which received supernatural characteristics only through retelling.

The euhemerization of Taoist myth by Confucian historians sometimes led to the appearance of figures such as "Lord Primordial Chaos" (渾沌氏) in the imperial genealogies.

(uncountable, derogatory) The fanciful invention of plausible historical figures and events as an attempt to rationalize mythology and legends

One such euhemerization is a Rowan Atkinson bit where he presents Jesus Christ as a misunderstood street magician.

Much of Chinese mythology appears to have been the result of euhemerization, the later deification of Neolithic tribal leaders and inventors incompletely remembered through oral traditions and now-lost records.

(uncountable) Synonym of deification: the actual creation of mythology and legends from historical figures and events; (countable) an instance of this.

rationalization & pseudohistory

fanciful creation of rational explanations for the supernatural


Palamism

From Palamite + -ism, a technical term in the field of Church history coined in the mid 20th century.

The last years of the empire witnessed in Palamism a great revival of mystical personal religion.

1949, English Historical Review, 64, p. 505:

The victory of Palamism in the fourteenth century was therefore the victory of a specifically Christian, God-centered humanism for which the Greek patristic tradition always stood.

1974, John Meyendorff, Byzantine theology: historical trends and doctrinal themes, I. v., p. 78:

(Christianity) The beliefs and practices of the Palamites.


antiprotestant

en-adj

antiprotestant (comparative more antiprotestant, superlative most antiprotestant)

more antiprotestant (comparative)
most antiprotestant (superlative)

(Christianity) Opposing the Protestant form of Christianity.


Iscariot

From Ancient Greek Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see the name and background section of Wikipedia's article on Judas Iscariot.

(Christianity) Epithet of Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver, and of his father Simon Iscariot.


Danite

A descendant of Dan, fifth son of Jacob.

(Mormonism, chiefly historical) A member of a fraternal vigilante group founded by members of the Latter Day Saints in the 1830s.


Danite

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

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


mizrah

An 1877 Polish mizrah (a plaque hung in the home to indicate which direction to face when praying) by Israel Dov Rosenbaum, a clockmaker, mimics the shape of a mantel clock.

2007 October 5, Martha Schwendener, “Sacred Skills Thrive on a Merry-Go-Round”, in New York Times:

A plaque attached to a wall to indicate the direction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which a Jew should face while praying.


uprist

From Middle English uprist, opriste, from Old English *ūprist (“uprising”), from *upp (“up”) + *ristiz (“ascension, rise”); equivalent to up- + rist (“a rising”). Compare Old English ǣrist (“rising, rising up, resurrection, awakening”), Old High German urrist (“resurrection”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (urrists, “resurrection”).

cog

(obsolete, Christianity) The Resurrection.


churchhouse

As a result, compassion is left at the churchhouse door, and the truly needy must look elsewhere for help.

2007 November 1, “Missing Compassion”, in New York Times:

A Quaker building used as a church and meeting-place.


Moravian star

Named after the Moravian church, which first commercially produced them at Herrnhut.

A (usually illuminated) star, made of a geometric solid such as a rhombicuboctahedron to which a large number of pyramidal points are attached, a popular Advent or Christmas decoration in Germany and other places having Moravian congregations.


Quakerish

en-adj

Quakerish (comparative more Quakerish, superlative most Quakerish)

more Quakerish (comparative)
most Quakerish (superlative)

She wore a Quakerish grey dress.

(dated) Suggesting or pertaining to the Quakers.


Sixth Commandment

Long before, in the great controversy over smallpox inoculation, he was said to have been an anticlerical heretic who violated the Sixth Commandment and deserved to be stuck in the pillory; [...]

1968, Bernard Bailyn, The origins of American politics, reprint edition, Knopf, page 60:

"And you're not going to kill anybody?"
"Hay, this is your dad," I said, a little hurt. "Sixth commandment, remember?" It didn't mention anything about near-killing.

2011, Mitchell Creepo, Heaven is a Deal, eBookIt.com, →ISBN, page 22:

The Commandment that states that killing a human being is a sin; commonly recited as "You shall not murder", "You shall not kill" or "Thou shalt not kill".


wali

You see the shrine was founded in memory of a great Wali, seer, holy man – but apparently a Mohammedan.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 130:


orphrey

From Middle English orfray, orfrei, orefreys (“elaborate (especially gold) embroidery; fabric adorned with such embroidery; embroidered ornamental band or border; decorative elements”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French orfrais, orfreis, orfrois, and other forms, from Late Latin aurifrasium, aurifrisium, aurifrigium and other forms, from Latin aurum Phrygium (“gold embroidery”, literally “Phrygian gold”), from aurum (“gold”) + Phrygium (neuter singular of Phrygius (“Phrygian”), the Phrygians being renowned for their gold embroidery). The English word is cognate with Late Latin orfrasium, orfresium, Old Occitan aurfre, aurfres, orfres (modern Occitan aurfrés), Spanish orofrés.

refn

From the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, New York, USA.

der

Item, another Chaſuble of blue Tiſſue Velvet, with Flowers and Branches of Gold, and in the Orphrey a Picture of the Paſſion of Chriſt, and of either ſide of him an Angel with Chalices in their Hands, two Tunicles and three Albes.

1553 May 18, William Dugdale, “A True Copy of an Inventory Remaining in the Registry of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, Taken the Eighteenth Day of May, in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, of All the Plate, Jewels, Vestments, Copes, Altar Cloths, and Other Ornaments Appertaining to the Cathedral Church of Lincoln”, in Monasticon Anglicanum: Or, The History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with Their Dependencies, in England and Wales: […], London: Printed by R. Harbin; For D. Browne and J. Smith, […], published 1718, →OCLC, page 317, column 1:

This word [orphrey] is used for a band or border of rich work, generally of gold or silver texture, which is sewed on to church vestments and furniture. All copes have an orphrey, or border, on the straight edge. On chasubles the Orphrey at present forms a cross behind, and falls in a straight line, in front of the vestment. Antiently the Orphreys were the same behind and before, like a Pallium, as may be seen in all monuments of the middle ages.

1844, A[ugustus] Welby [Northmore] Pugin, “Orphrey”, in Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, Compiled and Illustrated from Antient Authorities and Examples, […], London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 169:

In some cases these panel-decorations [of vestments] are similar both in style and material to the border or "orfrey." [...] Orfrey signifies a gold fringe, or gold border. At the present time the accepted technical term for the border of the vestment is the "orfrey;" and this is used whether the border be of gold or coloured silks.

1873 September, “Needlework”, in George Grove, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXVIII, number 167, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 431, column 2:

He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, [...] The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in coloured silks upon the hood. [...] The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, pages 207–208:

I wish your lordship would do us the honour to come and inspect one particularly magnificent specimen of devout labour—a tunicle of glaucous silk powdered with red roses and blue fleurs-de-lys, and another of the same field with orphreys of gold and sown with peacocks, griffins, and sanguine cockatrices. And I may add that with astonishing accuracy this superb example is worn over a green alb.

1923, Compton Mackenzie, “St. Cuthbert’s, Chelsea”, in The Parson’s Progress, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 136:

Another Alderman, Master Thomas Robertson provided vestments of green velvet and white damask with an orphray (a rich embroidered border) of red velvet, another of white satin of Bruges powdered with flowers and an orphray of black velvet and green Bruges satin.

2010, Kate Giles, “‘A Table of Alabaster with the Story of the Doom’: The Religious Objects and Spaces of the Guild of Our Blessed Virgin, Boston (Lincs)”, in Tara Hamling, Catherine Richardson, editors, Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and Its Meanings, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 273:

(Christianity) An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc.

krumplování

embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.


antisecular

en-adj

antisecular (comparative more antisecular, superlative most antisecular)

more antisecular (comparative)
most antisecular (superlative)

The lawsuit, filed with the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, seeks to shut down the party because of what it says are antisecular activities.

2008 March 15, Sabrina Tavernise, “Suit Seeks to Bar Party of Premier in Turkey”, in New York Times:

(sociology, religion) Opposing what is secular.


yaksha

Suvarnabhumi International Airport
yaksha

(Hindu mythology) A kind of supernatural being; can be a malevolent demon or a beneficent tutelary deity.

(Southeast Asia mythology) A kind of supernatural being, often depicted as having supernatural power, great strength, and frightening appearance; can be a malevolent demon or a beneficent tutelary deity.


litholatry

(chiefly theology) The worship of stones.


houngan

From Haitian Creole oungan, apparently from Fon houn (“spirit”) + Kongo nganga (“high priest”).

The shadow of the houngan, projected from within the tent by the flickering of the candle, dances and glides over the folds of the cloth as he completes his final preparations.

1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 48:

By then, estimates of the number of oungans killed in 1986-87 had reached as high as 400.

1995, Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 147

From 1751 to 1758, Makandal, a one-armed former slave and houngan, staged a rebellion that claimed some six thousand lives.

2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 16:

Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to their followers without much structure.

2008 April 5, Marc Lacey, “A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope”, in New York Times:


gompa

And when finally I got to the end of the five-hour drive over the highest motorable pass in the world, it was to learn that the gompa in Hunder was closed.

2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times:

(Buddhism) A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan.


spiration

en-noun

spiration (usually uncountable, plural spirations)

(theology) The procession of the Holy Ghost.


Zend-Avesta

18th/19th-century misnomer for the Avesta, related to the confusion surrounding 'Zend'.


quadragene

quadragene (plural quadragenes or quadragenae)

quadragenes (plural)
quadragenae (plural)

From Late Latin quadragēna (“40-day period, Lent”), from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Doublet of carene and quarantine.

der

You have with much labour, and some charge, purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon; that is, you have bought off the penances of so many times forty dayes. It is well; but were you well advised, it may be your Quadragenes are not Carenes; that is, are not a quitting the severest penances of fasting so long in bread and water; for there is great difference in the manner of keeping a penitential Lent, and it may be you have purchased but some lighter thing; and then if your demerit arise to so many Carenes, and you purchased but mere Quadragenes, without a minute and table of particulars, you may stay longer in Purgatory than you expected... And they that read... will soon perceive that all this is but a handful of smoke, when you hold it, you hold it not.

1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Disswasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, page 93:

Careen (and its Latin source, quadragene) no longer made sense in the fifteenth century because priests no longer distributed punishments in forty-day parcels, the duration of Lent... the culture had shifted from brief punishments on earth to long punishments in the afterlife, in Purgatory. But the term was still in circulation, and people sought to make sense of it by inventing new definitions for it.

2016, Kathryn M. Rudy, Rubrics, Images, & Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts, pages 47–8:

(Catholicism, historical) An indulgence from 40 days of fasting or similar abstinence, especially during Lent; (later) various equivalent indulgences against punishment in Purgatory.

Actors and spectators were often granted indulgences; generally^([sic]) to the scale of one Quadragene (a forty-day fast on bread and water in return for divine grace).

2001, Erika Fischer-Lichte, translated by Jo Riley, History of European Drama and Theatre, page 47:

(Catholicism, historical) An indulgence provided by 40 days of fasting.


Zillah

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.


hyper-real religion

en-noun

hyper-real religion (plural hyper-real religions)

hyperreal religion
hyperreal religion#English

(rare) Alternative spelling of hyperreal religion.


thriambus

Borrowed from New Latin thriambus, from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos), of Pre-Greek origin. Doublet of triumph and trump.

(religion, Ancient Greece) A hymn to Dionysus, sung in processions in his honour.


otakukin

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

The definition of entertainingly nutty would be otakukin.

2006, Cypher, “Considering Snuhwolf”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):

I pointed out that you telling me that Otakukin are insane made as much sense as belief in God. Both are things taken on faith, you see?

2007, Juan Valdez, “Ping Juan Valdez”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

(dated, Internet, sometimes capitalized) A person who claims or believes that their soul is a reincarnation or parallel incarnation of a fictional character (especially, from anime, manga, or video games).


Zephyrus

From Middle English Zeferus, Zepherus, Zephirus, Zephyrus, from Latin zephyrus, from Ancient Greek Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros). Not related to Latin zephirum (“zero”). Doublet of zefir, zéphire, Zephyr, and zephyr.

doublet

(Greek mythology) The Ancient Greek god of the west wind, supposed to be the gentlest of the winds and the messenger of spring. His parents are Eos/Aurora and Astraeus, and his brothers are Boreas, Notus and Eurus, (the Anemoi), and the Astra Planeta. His wife is Chloris and their son is Karpos. His Roman counterpart is Favonius.


etrog

Citrus medica
Citrus medica#Translingual

(Judaism) The yellow citron (Citrus medica) used in Sukkot ritual.


mythicism

en-noun

mythicism (countable and uncountable, plural mythicisms)

From myth + -icism. In occasional use since the 1840s.
The earliest use of the term was in Christian theology, in reference to the "Mythic Theory" of D. F. Strauss (1835). The more general sense appears from the 1870s.

1845: "Truly, if the caput mortuum of Christianity which mythicism leaves us, be all that is true of our religion, our feelings would tempt us to forgive the Evangelists who have so beautifully deceived, rather than the critics who so coldly disenchant us." (The Christian examiner, vol. 39, p. 160)

(theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

1911 "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian mythicism." (R. G. Badger, Don Sagasto's daughter)

The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.

1971 "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their 'mythicism'." (Levi-Strauss)

1998 "the playful animal familiars of the heroine [in Disney's Pocahontas] are real animals, because this is real mythicism, not pure imagination." (Ziauddin Sardar, Postmodernism and the other: the new imperialism of Western culture, p. 89)

The creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.

The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship or conspiracy theories.

(in particular) The opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist.


Yajurveda

(Hinduism) The third of the four Vedas, or canonical texts of Hinduism, containing the liturgy (mantras) needed to perform the sacrifices of the religion of the Vedic period.


Nazarite

A blend of Hebrew נָזִיר (nazír, “nazarite, monk, ascetic”) + -ite, from נִזַּר (nizár, “to separate”).

der

A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from alcohol, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion.


deen

2014, CHANEL, Purple Ink Presents Savage Sisters by Chanel, iUniverse →ISBN
Sterling was Muslim, and although he wasn't on his deen, Shanice and Shakira felt that he should have had a Janazah.

2016, Skepta, Shutdown, on Konnichiwa
You say you're Muslim, you say you're Rasta / Say you don't eat pork, don't eat pussy / Liar, you're just an actor / Blud, you're not on your deen

(Islam) religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim


Theotokos

/θiːˈɒtəˌkɒs/

Borrowed from Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “the God-bearer”), from Ancient Greek Θεός (Theós, “God”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”). First attested in 3rd–4th century. Cf. Christotokos.

bor+

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

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

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

Hyjlindëses

Mary, mother of Jesus, as God-bearer — see also Mary, Mother of God
Note: Only titles directly borrowed from the Greek or that literally mean "God-bearer" should go here. Translations that simply mean in the language in question should go at that entry.


quinquarticular

the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists

(theology) Relating to the five articles of Remonstrance.


Yazidism

The religion of Yazidis, a highly syncretic complex of local beliefs and Islamic doctrine.


Yazidi

member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism

եզդի

member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, whose religion is Yazidism


world soul

You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes

Thanks to the morning light,
Thanks to the seething sea,
To the uplands of New Hampshire,
To the green-haired forest free . . .

1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The World-Soul:

NINA: The bodies of all living creatures have dropped to dust, and eternal matter has transformed them into stones and water and clouds; but their spirits have flowed together into one, and that great world-soul am I!

1912, Anton Chekhov, translated by Marian Fell, The Seagull, act 1:

Like many ungainly or otherwise unattractive Scotchmen, he [Thomas Carlyle] was a seer. By which I do not mean to refer so much to his transcendental rhapsodies about the World-soul or the Nature-garment or the Mysteries and Eternities generally.

1913, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature:

During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God.

1940 April 29, “Scientist on Immortality”, in Time:

[H]er vision of Sant'Agnese resembles the beautiful Neoplatonist concept of the world soul as a great boat, in which every individual is a member of the crew who rows it through the cosmos for the space of existence, and then merges back into its fabric.

2001 June 3, Marina Warner, “Books: Where Heaven Touches Down”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-19:

(religion, philosophy) A single, unifying spirit believed by some to animate every living being in the world and to underlie the value of every inanimate thing as well.

Weltseele

single, unifying spirit present in every living being


Kibology

From Kibo + -logy, after prolific Usenet poster James "Kibo" Parry. A newsgroup called alt.religion.kibology was created in late 1991.

(Internet) An Internet-based parody religion led by James "Kibo" Parry and partly satirizing Scientology.


Kibologist

From Kibology + -ist. Coined by James Parry.

But UNIX will never compete with MTS until it has "$DISPLAY TIMESPELLEDOUT", *PIZZADELIVERY, and the famous sausage transfer protocol ("$FTP LINK=SAUSAGE"--gee, doesn't that look like it was implemented by a Kibologist?)

1992 January 2, James 'Kibo' Parry, “Hello?”, in alt.sex.masturbation (Usenet):

An adherent of the parody religion Kibology.


Kibological

en-adj

Kibological (comparative more Kibological, superlative most Kibological)

more Kibological (comparative)
most Kibological (superlative)

Tread softly on your beds of algae, Mr. Baleen Whale-Man, (if that is your real name) for if you step on even a single holy Krill, your soul will be sent to the eternal damnation of Kibological heck-like land!!

1989 November 6, Michael E. Lee, “seriously slack”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

2003, Beable van Polasm, “Kibological Konspiracy”, in alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters (Usenet):


Whit Tuesday

(Christianity) The Tuesday that immediately follows Whit Monday.


orlay

Learned borrowing from Old English orlæġ (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀlag, *uʀlag, from Proto-Germanic *uzlagą (“destiny; fate”, literally “that which is laid out; out-lay; plan; design”). Equivalent to or- + lay.

der

There laws they laid, there life chose, To men's sons, and spoke orlay […]

2004, Nathaniel Harris, Witcha: A Book of Cunning:

I am fully aware of how Oaths affect my Orlay and my Wyrd. I am Oathed to no one, save the Holy Ones and my Wife.

2006, An Heathen Reader: Some Thoughts on the State of Things I Think, anheathenreader.blogspot.com/.../some-thoughts-on-state-of-things-i.html

You could think of your own orlay as the source or seed of your “personal wyrd.” A newborn infant initially inherits its orlay from its parents and ancestors. This initial orlay is its heritage, compiled from the words and deeds of those ancestors.

2009, Alaric Albertsson, Travels Through Middle Earth:

These deeds done within the innangard of the tribe by its tribesmen are its law, its orlay.

2011, Swain Wodening, The Sacred and the Holy:

Remember how I wrote at the beginning of this chapter that the Norns 'shape' orlay. Orlay itself gives a person 'shape' within the dimensions of Time and Wyrd.

2021, Winifred Rose, Heathen Soul Lore Foundations:


Uma

(Hinduism) One of the names of Hindu goddess Parvati.


connexional

As a partial result of this feeling of brotherhood, strengthened by a closely knit system as to policy and operation, the Methodist Church manifested a splendid spirit of connexional unity.

1946, John Henry Riddell, Methodism in the Middle West, The Ryerson Press, page 158:

(Methodism) Of or pertaining to a connexion.


yearday

From Middle English ȝereday, ȝerdai (“anniversary”), from Old English *ġēardæġ (found in plural ġēardagas (“days of yore”)), from Proto-West Germanic *jāradag (“anniversary day”), equivalent to year + day. Cognate with West Frisian jierdei (“birthday”), Dutch jaardag (“birthday”), German Jahrtag (“anniversary”).

inh

His executors were to keep his yearday for twenty years at the cost of 20s. per year, and finally after his wife's death the bailiffs and commonalty of Southwold were to find a priest for sixteen years next following to sing for his soul […]

1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, volume 1, page 660:

For they were the very days on the which the women celebrated the feast and yearday of Adonis' death: and there were also in divers parts of the city, images of dead men carried to burial, and women following them, mourning and lamenting.

1998, Plutarch (in translation), Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, page 310

The younger children remained at Bytham for a year, and saw their brothers again only at Leicester, on the yearday of Mother's death.

2009, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John: A tale of intrigue, honor and the rise of a king, page 56:

(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of anniversary, a day occurring in a yearly cycle, particularly

(dated) Synonym of deathday or (Christianity) year's mind, the anniversary of a person's death, particularly as observed with a requiem mass or other commemoration.


Tirthankara

Transliteration of Sanskrit तीर्थंकर (tīrthaṃkara, “ford-maker”), from तीर्थम् (tīrtham, “ford”) + कर (kara, “maker”), where "ford" refers to the crossing across the material world.

translit

(Jainism) A person who achieves enlightenment through asceticism and who then becomes a role-model teacher for those seeking spiritual guidance.


kirtan

From Sanskrit कीर्तन (kīrtana, “narrating”).

She was not devout or overly religious but she went to temples and kirtans regularly.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 137:

Recently, Mrs. Breighner and Ms. Damon attended a Friday night kirtan at the Integral Yoga Institute.

2009 March 5, Sara Eckel, “Yoga Enthusiasts Hear the Call of Kirtan”, in New York Times:

A call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions.


tanha

The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.

2009 May 10, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in New York Times:


anticelibacy

en-adj

anticelibacy (comparative more anticelibacy, superlative most anticelibacy)

more anticelibacy (comparative)
most anticelibacy (superlative)

“I don’t want to be the anticelibacy priest,” he said.

2009 May 12, Damien Cave, “Celebrity Priest Says He Is Torn Between Church and Girlfriend”, in New York Times:


Johannine

Johannine (comparative more Johannine, superlative most Johannine)

more Johannine (comparative)
most Johannine (superlative)

/d͡ʒəʊˈhænaɪn/

From Johannes (“variant of John”) + -ine.

of, or pertaining to John, usually John the Apostle or John the Baptist.


mozzetta

Benedict, the first pope to resign voluntarily in six centuries, will dress in a simple white cassock, forgoing the mozzetta, the elbow-length cape worn by some Catholic clergymen, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told reporters at a news briefing.

2013 February 26, Gaia Pianigiani, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Benedict XVI to Be Known as Emeritus in Retirement”, in New York Times:

A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy.


Ursuline

One of a Roman Catholic female religious order whose patron saint is Saint Ursula.


Aram

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

(biblical) a Biblical region located in modern Syria.


Zacchaeus

From Late Latin Zacchaeus, from Ancient Greek Ζακχαῖος (Zakkhaîos), from Hebrew זכי (zakkay), literally "pure, innocent", which came from זכה (zacha, “be clean, pure”).

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:8:


Miaphysitism

From miaphysite + -ism, a modern coinage from Byzantine Greek μία (mía, “one”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature, substance”), referring in particular to the formula of Cyril of Alexandria, “one incarnate nature of the Word”, μία φύσις τοῦ Λόγου σεσαρκωμένη (mía phúsis toû Lógou sesarkōménē).

Oriental Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Church

(theology) A Christological formula, upheld by the Oriental Orthodox Church, holding that divinity and humanity are united in a single nature in Christ.


ordinariate

The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.


necessarianism

Scholars working on Joseph Priestley have begun to take a proper measure of his philosophical position, known as “necessarianism,” a psychological determinism based on the teachings of the midcentury physician and theologian David Hartley—with, in Priestley′s own case, the addition of materialism. To its enemies, necessarianism seemed rank fatalism, but its adherents found that it both explained the evils about them and offered a sovereign remedy (generally through one or another variety of education) to resolve them and bring mankind to perfection.

1995, Denis G. Paz, Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Prospect, page 106:

While not acceptable to all Unitarians, the philosophical determinism known as Necessarianism, identified with Hartley and Priestley, also proved persuasive to many, both ministers and laymen.

2000, R. K. Webb, “6: Miracles in English Unitarian Thought”, in Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, editors, Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, page 114:

To cut a long story short, this led to the emergence of a new form of necessarianism. People are conditioned to behave as they do, so freedom is an illusion. This form of necessarianism may be called ‘behaviourist necessarianism’.

2001, Alexander Crombie, An Essay on Philosophical Necessity, page number not shown:

(philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.


pharisaically

en-adv

pharisaically (comparative more pharisaically, superlative most pharisaically)

more pharisaically (comparative)
most pharisaically (superlative)

(chiefly Christianity) In a pharisaical manner.


Nowruz

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *new-
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *náwas
Proto-Iranian *náwah
Middle Persian 𐭭𐭥𐭪𐭩 (nʿky)
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas
Proto-Iranian *ráwčah
Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h)
Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (yʿm)
Middle Persian nwklwc
Classical Persian نَوْروز (nawrōz)
Iranian Persian نُوروز (nowruz)bor.
English Nowruz
Borrowed from Iranian Persian نُوروز (nowruz), from Classical Persian نَوْروز (nawrōz), from نَو (naw, “new”) + روز (rōz, “day”), cognate with the English phrase "new light".

bor+

New Year in the Iranian/Zoroastrian calendar, celebrated on the spring equinox.


JI

Initialism of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist militant organization based in Indonesia


triple goddess

en-noun

triple goddess (plural triple goddesses)

The goddess Brig was a triple goddess of poetry, smithcraft and healing, along with her two sisters of the same name.

2012, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs, McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 51:

(mythology) A female triune deity, either one goddess with three distinct aspects or manifestations, or three goddesses who form a unit.


triple goddess

(Wicca) Alternative letter-case form of Triple Goddess


baraminological

(creationism) Of or pertaining to baraminology.


Premonstratensian

From French prémontré, from Latin pratum monstratum.

A member of the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, a Catholic religious order of canons regular.


religious education

The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.


Simonism

His zeal for the purification of the church urged him forthwith to operate against the prevailing system of Simonism, or the purchasing of spiritual offices with money, and the immoral life led by the clergy.

1844, Friedrich Kohlrausch, A history of Germany: from the earliest period to the present time, page 190:

Here in 1062 the bishop of Florence Mezzabarba was refused admittance by the monks, who accused him of Simonism.

1899, Elvira Grifi, Saunterings in Florence: a new artistic and practical hand-book, page 456:


churel

As a churel she now prowls about the neighbourhood with her child in her arms.

1895, William Crooke, North Indian Notes and Queries, page 39:

The Churel, or woman dying in chold-birth, has been mentioned elsewhere.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32:

He talked in whispers, and with the utmost respect, of the churel that might be listening overhead.

1953, The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 29, page 410:

In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth, pregnancy; or a witch.


tutelary deity

tutelary deity (plural tutelary deities)

Where had then beene the church of Durham, and the devotion of Kings to his ſepulchur? Where had then beene the tutelarie Deity against the Scotts, and the lande of the church called St. Cuthberts patrimony? How then should his holywarke folk be freed from tribute and ſervice in warre, and the Monkes of Durham fed ſoe many yeares with eaſe and fatt revenues, if now their Saint had beene entombed in the ſea, and erected his eſpicopal ſeate among the fiſhes?

1778, W[illiam] Hutchinson, A View of Northumberland: With an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland. By W. Hutchinson Anno 1776, volume II, Newcastle: Printed by T. Saint, for W. Charnley and Messrs Vesey & Whitfield, →OCLC, page 126:

The identification of the Bardic Crist Celi with the Bardic Moses, with a view to blending both religions in one scheme of magic, has been illustrated in the just cited pages of the Neo-Druidic Heresy. […] The words Gwledig Moysen shew us that the Moses of this spurious Israel was himself its tutelary deity; and he is not different from the Crist Gwledig. But that epithet designates the Being spoken of, in respect of his local tutelarity, and not of his more general attributes as a Person of the Trindawd.

1836, [Algernon Herbert], “Chapter II”, in Britannia after the Romans; being an Attempt to Illustrate the Religious and Political Revolutions of that Province in the Fifth and Succeeding Centuries, volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, 4, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, footnote, page 63:

The Okrika war deity was Fenibcso who was regarded as the spirit of a warrior who feared neither god nor man. The Nembe war deity was also its tutelary deity Ogidiga. Kalabari differed from all the other states in having a female tutelary deity, Owame Akaso, who prohibited homicide within her community. Her cult thus provided a very powerful sanction against civil disturbances.

1963, G[william] I[wan] Jones, “The Eastern Delta State at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century”, in The Trading States of the Oil Rivers: A Study of Political Development in Eastern Nigeria, London: Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, OCLC 1193785; reprinted as The Trading States of the Oil Rivers: A Study of Political Development in Eastern Nigeria: New Introduction by John C. McCall, 2nd edition, Hamburg: LIT Verlag; London: James Currey Publishers by arrangement with the International African Institute, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8258-4778-4 (Germany); ISBN 978-0-85255-918-5 (UK), page 70

Your son, Khyuṅ-po rDo-rje, is the son of the Medicine Buddha, and therefore he should know the Medicine Buddha as his tutelary deity and pray to him deeply, and his achievements will be great.

1973, Jampal Kunzang, “The Life of the Great Physician-Saint gYu-thog the Elder”, in Tibetan Medicine: Illustrated in Original Texts: Presented and Translated by the Ven. Rechung Rinpoche Jampal Kunzang, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 192:

There are some tutelary deities of this type in the Festival for All the Tutelary Deities who are unique to that text. A subset of this type of tutelary deity is attested in the one occurrence of ᵈLAMMA URU-lim-ya "and the Tutelary Deity of the City". This may refer to the Tutelary Deity of Hatti, although it may also have meant the tutelary deity of some particular city mentioned earlier in the text.

1991, [John] Gregory McMahon, The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities (Assyriological Studies; 25), Chicago, Ill.: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 39:

Possession of a drum performs the symbolic function of representing physically the dhāmi-jhākri’s mastery of particular spirits. More specifically, it indicates the nature of the dhāmi-jhākri’s relationship with his tutelary deity, the ban-jhākri. […] This idea of the drum as the physical embodiment of the dhāmi-jhākri’s relationship to his tutelary deity also accounts for why the drum is periodically fed with blood on specific occasions (guru-pūjā).

2003, Damian Walker, “Medium of the Message: Shamanism as Localised Practice in the Nepal Himalayas”, in Neil S[tuppel] Price, editor, The Archaeology of Shamanism, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:

(religion) A deity, usually minor, serving as a tutelary (guardian or supporter) for a place, person, group, or activity.

守護神

minor protective or otherwise helpful deity


Bethphage

/ˈbɛθ.fəˌd͡ʒi/

From Aramaic בית-פגי (literally “house of unripe figs”).

(biblical) A place near Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.


Sakyamuni

Borrowed from Sanskrit शाक्यमुनि (śākyamuni, “sage of the Śākyas”).


Talitha

From Aramaic טליתא (ṭalyəṯāʾ, “female child, girl, maiden”). From a passage in the New Testament (Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus restores to life a little girl.

der

Talitha Bateman

Talitha Getty

Talitha Washington

A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Cephas

Borrowed from Latin Cephas, from Ancient Greek Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs), from Aramaic כֵּיפָא/Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”).

Aramaic כֵּיפָא

And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

The apostle Peter, using the name given to him by Jesus.

A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Zaqqum

(Islam) A tree that grows in Jahannam (Hell), whose dwellers are compelled to eat the bitter fruit.


Qadiriyya

From Arabic الْقَادِرِيَّة (al-qādiriyya) and/or Classical Persian قادریه (qādiriyya), named after Abdul Qadir Gilani.

bor

الْقَادِرِيَّة

A member of a particular fundamentalist Sufi order.


Jacob's ladder

Jacob's ladder; Christ is Jacob's ladder that reacheth up to heaven; and he that refuseth to go by this ladder thither, will scarce by other means get up so high.

1691, John Bunyan, “The Jerusalem Sinner Saved”, in The Works of John Bunyan, volume 1:


taqiyya

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic تَقِيَّة (taqiyya).

ubor

(Islam) Religious dissimulation while under threat or persecution.

(derogatory) Alleged deception by Muslim extremists (or Muslims in general) to spread Islam.


Proserpina

From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

der

(Roman mythology) The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

(astronomy) 26 Proserpina, the asteroid.

(astrology) A fictitious planet beyond Pluto


Peshitta

From Classical Syriac ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (pəšīṭtā), shortened from ܡܦܩܬܐ ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (mappaqtā pəšīṭtā, “simple version”).


Guanyin

zh-l

觀音／观音 (Guānyīn)

(religion, Buddhism) The bodhisattva of compassion, venerated by Buddhists in East and Southeast Asia; depicted variously as male or female.

Avalokiteśvara
Guanyin
Haiphong
Hanoi
Vietnam
Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts


plyg

Condensed pronunciation of the first two syllables of polygamist, in reference to the Mormon practice (which has been discontinued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) of polygamy (plural marriage).

Chastity was aware that many people on the outside thought Mormons were narrow, humorless, and authoritarian. […] the plygs had to be on their way to the rear of the dwelling. She tapped two of the guys and pointed into the empty room behind them.

2005 December 1, Rose Beecham, Grave Silence, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:

The Mormons at the Magic Valley ward didn't mention [it...] […] "You're going to marry one of the plygs and have a bunch of deformed kids," she called from the other room. She came back into Grace's room with a pair of scissors. "We're going to cut that hair. You look like a wild Indian." "No!"

2017 October 25, Nikki Grace, Desert Leopards, One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd, →ISBN:

(slang, offensive, often capitalized) A fundamentalist Mormon, especially one from a sect which practices polygamy.


Dunker

From German Tunker (“immersionist”), related to dunk (“dip, submerge”).

One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.


Montanism

The disappearance of charismatic wandering Christian teachers or prophets and the assertion of the authority of bishops were probably sealed by the Catholic Church's confrontation in the later second century with a movement known as Montanism or ‘the New Prophecy’.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138:

(Christianity) The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.

الْمُونْتَانِيَّة

the doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs


Judas Iscariot

From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas) Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see Judas Iscariot § Name and background.

(biblical) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.


papistically

en-adv

papistically (comparative more papistically, superlative most papistically)

more papistically (comparative)
most papistically (superlative)

In a papistical manner; by, or with reference to, a pope.


Homoean

en-adj

Homoean (comparative more Homoean, superlative most Homoean)

more Homoean (comparative)
most Homoean (superlative)

From Latin homoeus, from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “like, similar”), + -an.

der

Maybe the Homoean formula of Ariminum would have succeeded in uniting the Church if Constantius had not unexpectedly died in his mid-forties in 361.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 216:

(theology) Pertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the homoousian and homoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son.


Homoousion

/hɒməʊˈuːzɪɒn/

From ecclesiastical Koine Greek ὁμοούσιον (homooúsion), neuter of ὁμοούσιος (homooúsios), formed by combining ὁμός (homós, “same”) and οὐσία (ousía, “being”) with the adjectival morpheme -ῐος (-ios).

The campaign to get rid of the Homoousion from Christian credal statements split the Church in the empire for another half-century and more.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 215:

(theology) The inclusion of the term ὁμοούσιος (homooúsios, “of one essence”) in the Nicene Creed to describe the principle that the Son is ‘of one substance’ with the Father (as opposed to the Homoiousion).


theopaschism

This central statement of a theological movement known as ‘Theopaschism’ was controversial even among Miaphysites, causing major divisions in their ranks […]

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 239:

(theology) The doctrine that a god can suffer.


Dyophysite

/dʌɪˈɒfəzʌɪt/

From ecclesiastical Ancient Greek δυοφυσῖται (duophusîtai), from δύο (dúo, “two”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature”).

Monasteries among the Dyophysites were strengthened through the military success of the Sassanian Shah Khusrau II in areas of the Byzantine Empire along the eastern Mediterranean.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 247:

(theology) Someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.

երկաբնակ

someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ


echage

Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage’s quarter as a place of asylum.

1972, Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians:

The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage (the head of Ethiopia's monastic system) marched on his right.

2002, Haggai Erlich, The Cross and the River, page 117:

Täklä Haymanot was the first in a series of monks to become a key figure at Court, as the Echage (ečägé).

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 281:

(Christianity) The chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.


antidoron

From Byzantine Greek αντίδωρον (antídōron) from Koine Greek ἀντίδωρον (antídōron) from Ancient Greek ἀντί + δῶρον (antí + dôron, “gift in return; instead of a gift”).

ἀντί + δῶρον

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism) A piece of ordinary leavened bread, taken from remnants of loaves used for the Eucharist, which has been blessed but not consecrated; distributed in churches that use the Byzantine Rite.


rigorist

en-adj

rigorist (comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist)

more rigorist (comparative)
most rigorist (superlative)

From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, + -ist.

Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism.


filioque

Another issue was the promotion of that troublesome addition to the Nicene Creed, the Filioque or double procession in the Trinity of the Spirit from Father and Son, which had taken its cue from Augustine's writing on the Trinity.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:

The Second Council of Lyon […] only succeeded in confirming and defining a key item of Catholic theology, the filioque, which has barred the way to reconciliation ever since.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 126:

(theology) The use of the Latin word filioque (“and from the son”) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as opposed to the Eastern churches which believe the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone).


cephalophore

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.

According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”

1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60:

(Roman Catholicism) Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.


Kenan

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.

(biblical) A descendant of Seth, son of Enos.


Noahidism

A Biblical-Talmudic and monotheistic ideology based on the Seven Laws of Noah.


Freyja

Borrowed from Old Norse Freyja, from freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.

(Norse mythology) A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.


unfaith

en-noun

unfaith (usually uncountable, plural unfaiths)

The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.

1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:

But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.

1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:

Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.


kontakion

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion).

bor+

The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 454:

When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.

1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.


Monothelete

Variant form of Monothelite after its etymon, Byzantine Greek μονοθελήτης (monothelḗtēs).

der

(Christianity, historical) Someone who believed Christ had two natures (human and divine), but one single will; a Monothelite.

monoteleta

member of an early Christian sect which held that Jesus Christ has two natures but one will


Monothelete

en-adj

Monothelete (comparative more Monothelete, superlative most Monothelete)

more Monothelete (comparative)
most Monothelete (superlative)

The increasing desperation of the imperial authorities to reap political benefits from their Monothelete compromise in the face of Arab military successes led them into brutal measures, not merely against Maximus but against Pope Martin; that did more to harm than help the Monothelete cause.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 441–2:

(Christianity, historical) Pertaining to such a belief.


proskynesis

From Ancient Greek προσκύνησις (proskúnēsis).

The Carolingian theologians rejected adoration of images but paid too little attention to the fine distinction between latria, the adoration due to God alone, and proskynesis, the reverence paid to the image.

1975, Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology, page 684:

It was proskynēsis which the worshipper at home or in church offered to an icon.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 448:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The level of veneration properly given to God's creations rather than to God himself.


theosis

tlb

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, theology)

/θiːˈəʊ.sɪs/

Borrowed from Latin theōsis, from Ancient Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam’s sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible;[…]

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 440:

The likeness to or union with God; deification.


acheiropoieton

/eɪˈkaɪɹəʊpɔɪˌiːtən/

From Byzantine Greek ἀχειροποίητον (akheiropoíēton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, the alpha privative”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ποιεῖν (poieîn, “to make”).

bor

ἀχειροποίητον

These legends not only established the value of the Mandylion and the Vera Icon as authentic portraits of Christ, but also as acheiropoieta, i.e., images made without the intervention of human hands.

1995, Maurits Smeyers, “An Eyckian Vera Icon in a Bruges Book of Hours, ca. 1450 (New York, Pierpoint Morgan Library, Ms 421)”, in Werner Verbeke et al., editors, Serta Devota in Memoriam Guillelmi Lourdaux. Pars Posterior: Cultura Mediaevalis (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia; Series I, Studia XXI), Leuven: Leuven University Press, →OCLC, page 199:

An example of an acheiropoieton, or image made without human hands, the icon and its copies alike were believed to possess miraculous qualities that aided spiritual conversion.

2003, Gauvin A[lexander] Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565–1610, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 10:

The special nature of Orthodox icons was emphasized by the growth of a notion, much encouraged by these bitter disputes, that there was one quite exceptional class of art: acheiropoieta, images of Jesus not made by human hands, the archetype of which was the now-mysterious Mandylion given by Christ himself to King Abgar of Edessa […].

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, London: Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-7139-9869-6; republished London: Penguin Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-141-02189-8, page 452

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A religion icon (chiefly of Christ or the Virgin Mary) believed not to have been created by human hands; a miraculous image.

Acheiropoieta
Edessa
Image of Edessa
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine, Egypt
encaustic painting

ხელთუქმნელი ხატი

religious image believed not to have been created by human hands


kenotic

Linked to the kenotic concept of innocence and denial of self-esteem was the new popularity which from very early on an old genre of Eastern saint enjoyed in the Christianity of Kievan Rus’, and which has endured into modern Russian Orthodoxy: the Holy Fool.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 509:


orthros

Ancient Greek ὄρθρος (órthros, “daybreak”).

uder

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The divine office or service at dawn.


Theatine

Named after Chieti (Theate), of which one of its founders, John Peter Caraffa, was bishop.

(religion) A member of a Catholic order established in 1524 in Italy, which consisted of monks and later, nuns under the direction of the monks.


savedness

The conviction that man exists in the modality of lostness, so that he must undergo a metamorphosis in order to be found in the modality of savedness, is something that is derived from special revelation.

1970, Leonard Verduin, Somewhat less than God: the Biblical view of man:

Our savedness is not our privilege but our responsibility. To reduce the scope of the saving work of God, to say that Christ died "to save me," is to say far too little, and thus to distort the gospel.

1985, Darrell L. Guder, Be my witnesses: the church's mission, message, and messengers, page 11:

Could a person ever lose this savedness? If so, how and at what point?

2006, Daniel Whyte III, When Black Preachers Preach, volume 2, page 123:

(Christianity) The quality of being saved, or rescued from the consequences of sin.


great house

A large, luxurious house or mansion, with a sizeable indoor and outdoor staff; especially of properties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom and United States.


reaggravation

(Christianity) The last monitory before excommunication.


Tobit

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

der

(biblical) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


confessionalization

en-noun

confessionalization (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalizations)

Confessionalization represents the defeat of efforts to rebuild the unified Latin Church.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 639:

Regardless of belief, all secular and ecclesiastical authorities pursued similar policies of ‘confessionalization’ intended to impose the official faith of their territory through education, improved clerical supervision and more intensive ‘visitations’ to probe individual belief and monitor religious practices.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 121:

(religion, chiefly historical) The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.


in the world

In the world you will have trouble, but I leave you my peace that where I am there you may also be.

1998, Rich Mullins (lyrics and music), “That Where I am There You...”:

(religion) In this present age; here and now.

With some effort and discipline anyone can learn to get up early and to stand through long church services, to make prostrations and to work, and work hard, at jobs that you don’t necessarily like. A lot of people in the world have a much more difficult life in that sense.

2023 July 7 (last accessed), “Monasticism in 21st Century”, in The Holy Monastery of St Paisius:

(religion) Characteristic of wider society; worldly.


Judaist

All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists.

2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:

(Judaism, uncommon) One who believes and practices Judaism.

judismano

practicer of Judaism as distinguished from a non-practicing Jew


penal substitution

As part of that literal reading, concentrating on a line of thought on salvation pursued by St Paul, came the penal substitution theory, and Fundamentalists rightly concluded that these were the aspects of Christianity most vulnerable to attack from nineteenth-century intellectual developments.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 863:

(theology) The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.


sobornost

Some post-Soviet writers see sobornost’ as a – if not the – defining element in giving distinctiveness to Russian civilization.

2004, James H Billington, Russia in Search of Itself, page 146:

Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.

2007, Paul Haffner, Mystery of the Church, page 132:

Key to his thought was a concept which has become central to modern Russian Orthodox thinking, Sobornost’, the proposition that freedom is inseparable from unity, communion or community.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 851:

(philosophy, theology) A unity of people in loving fellowship.


thought-form

Two people can have the same idea at the same time because they felt the same thought-forms.

One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.

(spiritualism) A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form within the spirit world.


Jesuitism

Jesuitism (countable and uncountable, plural Jesuitisms)

(Christianity) The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

jesuitismo

the principles and practices of the Jesuits


mysterial

en-adj

mysterial (comparative more mysterial, superlative most mysterial)

more mysterial (comparative)
most mysterial (superlative)


Odinic

Odinic (comparative more Odinic, superlative most Odinic)

more Odinic (comparative)
most Odinic (superlative)

Hermann Pálsson, in his essay “Odinic Echoes in Gísla saga,” attempts to collect literary evidence for the importance of Odin's cult in early Iceland.

2009, Adam Oberlin, “Odinic Elements in the Northern Sigurdr Legend”, in Myth: German and Scandinavian Studies:

Perceived Heathenism and Odinic Prayer.

Neil Gaiman's American Gods (2001) centres on Odinic myth transposed to modern America.

2014, Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda (revised version), Folio Society 2016, p. xxiv


immortalist

September 28 1657, Jeremy Taylor, A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir George Dalston
the inhabitants by Ister who were called ἀθανατίζοντες, "Immortalists;" because, in the midst of all their dark notices of things, they saw […] "that virtuous and good men do not die[…]"

One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.


labis

(Christianity) A spoon used in the Eucharist.


nonelect

(religion, archaic) Someone not chosen for salvation.


lamrim

(Buddhism) The stages in the path to Buddhist enlightenment.


asr

From Arabic عَصْر (ʕaṣr, “afternoon”), in صَلَاةُ العَصْر (ṣalātu al-ʕaṣr, “afternoon prayer”).


minjung

From Korean 민중(民衆) (minjung), from Middle Chinese 民眾 (MC mjin tsyuwngH, “common people, the masses”). Compare Mandarin 民眾／民众 (mínzhòng).

ltc-l

The minjung have learned to dream of a world from which oppression, conflict and suffering have been removed; a world where they are no longer the ruled, but the rulers of their own lives and destinies, and the subjects of their own history.

1996, Sang Taek Lee, Religion and Social Formation in Korea, page 171:

Therefore the theologians' main concern was not dealing with individual poor people but rather to do with social process and the system which prevents the minjung from coming out of their misery.

2008, Sebastian CH Kim, Christian Theology in Asia, page 140:

Jesus was minjung and the friend of the minjung, teaching forgiveness and love of enemies, but Moses was also minjung, political leader of his people against oppression.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 978:

(politics, theology) In South Korea, peasants or working-class people.


Apollyonic

en-adj

Apollyonic (comparative more Apollyonic, superlative most Apollyonic)

more Apollyonic (comparative)
most Apollyonic (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to Apollyon.


Waheguru

(religion, Sikhism) God as conceived by Sikhism.


neo-creo

That's why there's no scientific controversy about common descent, the "fact of evolution." When pressed, even neo-creos (such as Michael Behe, the author of Darwin's Black Box) admit this (although, under other circumstances they're inclined to hedge and fudge).

1999 August 17, Phillip E. Johnson with Philip Kitcher, “Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools?”, in Slate Magazine, →ISSN:

In the early 1990's, however, a new breed of creationists appeared. These "neo-creos," as they have been called, are no Dogpatch hayseeds. They have Ph.D.'s and occupy positions at some of the better universities. The case they make against Darwinism does not rest on the authority of Scripture; rather, it proceeds from premises that are scientific and philosophical, invoking esoteric ideas in molecular biology, information theory and the logic of hypothesis testing.

2002 April 14, Jim Holt, “Supernatural Selection”, in New York Times, →ISSN:

To counter the "sophisticated branding experts" who flummoxed establishmentarian evolutionaries with intelligent design, opponents of classroom debate over Darwin's theory have come up with a catchily derisive neologism that lumps the modern I.D. advocates with religious fundamentalists: neo-creo.

2005 August 21, William Safire, “Neo-Creo”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN:

That makes it all the more important for the layman to distinguish the various gradations between evolutionists, serious scientists who are interested in ID, "neo-Creos," and Biblical literalists.

2005 August 28, Sally Jenkins, “Just Check the ID”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:


neo-creo

neo-creo (comparative more neo-creo, superlative most neo-creo)

more neo-creo (comparative)
most neo-creo (superlative)

I come at last to the most basic difficulty with the neo-creo attack, it's dim suggestions that the scientific world needs a shot of supernaturalism.

2003, Phillip Kitcher, “Born-Again Creationism”, in In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QH331.K6145 2003, page 373:


isagogics

(theology) That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of Scripture.


Christ on a bike

Christ on a bike and Mary on the handlebars

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ alive" or "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


unipersonalist

This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible.

2004, George F. McLean, Robert R. Magliola, William Fox, Democracy: In the Throes of Liberalism and Totalitarianism, page 101:

(theology) One who believes in a unipersonal deity, i.e. that God is one being, while being the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.


Judaïsm

These republished studies do not by any means cover the whole ground taken in China and Religion;—for instance, I had published no previous special studies of Manicheism, Judaïsm, or Shintōism, but composed the chapters on those subjects in 1905 directly from notes I had gradually stored, and from the works of others who had already nearly exhausted the matter available for study, and had published the results of their labours.

1910, Edward Harper Parker, Studies in Chinese Religion, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., page vii:


sermoner

This is the sin of schoolmasters, governesses, critics, sermoners, and instructors of young or old people

1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:

(archaic, humorous or derogatory) A preacher; a sermonizer.


repletive

repletive (comparative more repletive, superlative most repletive)

more repletive (comparative)
most repletive (superlative)

This repletive existence is now attributed also to the body of Christ.

1905, Reinhold Seeberg, History of doctrines in the middle and modern ages, page 326:

Christ is also present in the Supper by virtue of his "repletive presence.”

2015, Hans Boersma, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology:

This could be the structural framework which explains Brenz's sharply distinguished – if not diastatic – notion between the circumscriptive and the repletive sphere.

2012, Joar Haga, Was there a Lutheran Metaphysics?:, page 143:

Finally, there is "repletive ubeity ", which Leibniz assigns to God, and who “operates immediately on all created things, continually producing them, whereas finite minds cannot immediately influence or operate upon them".

2016, Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space, page 249:

(Christianity) Ubiquitious; everywhere; unbounded by physical constraints.


Onan

And Iudah said vnto Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and marrie her, and raise vp seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to passe when hee went in vnto his brothers wife, that hee spilled it on the ground, least that hee should giue seed to his brother. And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD: wherefore hee slew him also.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8–10:


YEC

en-noun

YEC (countable and uncountable, plural YECs)

Young Earth creationism
Young Earth creationism#English

(uncountable) Initialism of Young Earth creationism.


platygaeanism

It should be clear that my presentation of platygaeanism is *much* more cogent and intelligent than anything creationists or astrologers have been able to come up with.

1987 November 27, Bret Jolly, “Re: Flat Earth”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <19477@shemp.UCLA.EDU>:

According to Ron Numbers's _The Creationists_, geocentrism remained common among Missouri synod Lutherans until about a century ago (and still has followers in various sects). Platygaeanism had its adherents until recently, at least.

2001 August 6, Steven J., “Re: Platyg?nism”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <127ccf2e.0108061950.22cc48c5@posting.google.com>:

All that site did list were a few people that I thought existed already followed by a posse of perfectly understandable reasons for me to have believed in Catholic Platygæanism at least until now.

2001 August 7, Aron-Ra, “Re: Platygæanism”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.


Raskolnik

Raskolnik (plural Raskolniks or Raskolniki)

Borrowed from Russian раско́льник (raskólʹnik, “schism-maker, schismatic”), from раско́л (raskól, “schism”).

bor

(historical, offensive) Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666.


pernoctation

en-noun

pernoctation (countable and uncountable, plural pernoctations)

/ˌpɜːnɒkˈteɪʃn̩/

PIE word
 *nókʷts
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pernoctātiō (“act of spending of the night (doing something, particularly praying)”), from pernoctō (“to spend the night”) + -tiō (action noun suffix). Pernoctō is from per- (prefix with the sense of completion or entirety forming verbs) + nox (“night; darkness”). By surface analysis, pernoctate + -ion.

af

[I]n general the veſpers begin a little before ſunſet; the matins at four o'clock in the morning, and the liturgy or communion about nine; and when the vigil, or pernoctation, is performed, that ſervice begins after ſunſet; and there is no ſervice, in the morning following, till the communion.

1772, John Glen King, “The Order of the After-vespers”, in The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church, in Russia; […], London: […] W. Owen, […]; J[ames] Dodsley, […]; J[ohn] Rivington, […]; and T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, footnote 6, page 82:

(countable, religion, chiefly Christianity, obsolete) A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed; a vigil.


benedictional

little children are very frequently demoniacally possessed for the same reason that women are; on this account the old diocesan benedictionals contained a special exorcismus parvulorum a dæmone infestatorum, which has now been in a great measure superseded by the equally effective formula benedictio puerorum ægroiantium of the Romish benedictional.

1895 October 14, Edward Payson Evans, “Recent Recrudescence of Superstition I”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 47:


episcopant

[T]he interceſſion of all theſe Apoſtolick Fathers could not prevail vvith them to alter their reſolved Decree of reducing into order their uſurping and over-provender'd Epiſcopants; […]

1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 246:


ghostology

en-noun

ghostology (usually uncountable, plural ghostologies)

/ɡəʊsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

[…] it seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.

1872, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life:

This, as all students of ghostology are aware, has frequently been the case; and it was precisely the case with the ghost seen by the famous Lord Brougham, […]

1908, H. Addington Bruce, “The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham”, in Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters:

Experts in ghostology know exactly, where ghosts live, how they behave, how to deal with them, how to make them appear and disappear.

1957, William L. Fischer, Critical Notes on Evolution, page 30:

The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.


haikal

The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.


obeast

I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

2006, Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers, page 23

For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.

2007, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk, page 39

2008, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes
if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)

(religion) An intelligent demonic influence or entity.


fetialis

This was the mode in which Roman treaties were made, the fecialis praying Jupiter to punish the infringer of the treaty as he did the animal, which he instantly dispatched with a flint stone.

1843, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, “Heraldick Matters”, in Encyclopaedia of Antiquities and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval, volume 2, London, page 765:

[...] but when the theatre of war became more distant, the fetialis, consul, or praetor, contented himself with hurling his lance from a pillar near the temple of Bellona in the direction of the hostile territory, while the declaration of war itself was made by the military commander of the province through an ambassador.

1874, Theodore D. Woolsey, Introduction to the Study of International Law, 4th edition, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., page 196:

Fetiales also investigated allies' claims of abuse by Romans; if substantiated, the fetiales delivered the men accused to the injured parties.

2016, Amanda J. Coles, “Ius Fetiale”, in Sara E[lise] Phang, Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly, Peter Londey, editors, Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia, volumes 3 (H–Z, Roman Section), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 973, column 2:

(Ancient Rome, politics, religion, historical) A fetial.


transelementation

(obsolete, especially Roman Catholicism) transubstantiation


dishallow

en-verb

dishallow (third-person singular simple present dishallows, present participle dishallowing, simple past and past participle dishallowed)

dishallows (present singular third-person)
dishallowing (participle present)
dishallowed (participle past)
dishallowed (past)

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross):

And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep
Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep,
Your sleep is death"[…]

1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:

Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things

1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar:

(transitive, religion) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.


stercoranist

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin stercoranista + English -ist (suffix denoting people who subscribe to particular theological doctrines or religious denominations). Stercoranista is derived from Latin stercora + -n- + -ista (suffix denoting people who believe or practise); while stercora is the nominative plural of stercus (“dung, excrement, ordure”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“dung, manure; to soil, sully; to decay”).

lbor

[T]his very thing that Mr. Arnaud [i.e., Antoine Arnauld] believes Amalarius vvas a Stercoraniſt ought to convince him on the contrary that this Author did not believe the change or converſion of the ſubſtance in the Euchariſt.

1684, Jean Claude, “Of Other Authors in the Ninth Century, Amalarius, Heribald, Raban, Bertram, and John Scot”, in The Catholick Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages: […], part II, London: […] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book VI (Concerning the Change which has Hapned in the Doctrin of the Latin Church in Respect of the Eucharist. […]), page 245:

[…] Humburtus Biſhop of Silvâ Candida calls Nicetas Stercoraniſt. […] If Cardinal Humbert drevv up Berengarius his Recantation, he vvas the verieſt Stercoraniſt vvho called Stercoraniſt firſt, and Pope Nicolaus the ſecond vvith the vvhole Councel that impoſed that Form of Abjuration upon him, vvere Stercoraniſts to ſome purpoſe; vvho taught him, That Chriſts body is truly and ſenſiby handled and broken by the Prieſts hands, and ground by the Teeth of the Faithful.

1686, [Pierre Allix], “That the Treatise Expressly Confutes the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, and is Very Agreeable to the Doctrine of the Church of England”, in Ratramnus, translated by [William Hopkins], The Book of Bertram or Ratramnus, Priest and Monk of Corbey; Concerning the Body and Blood of the Lord, […], London: […] Ch. Shortgrave […], →OCLC, page xcviii:

Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt breaks the faſt; vvhich opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoraniſm.

1758, “Essay III”, in Considerations upon War, upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], →OCLC, section VI, footnote h, page 147:

He [Humbert of Silva Candida] designated his adversary [Niketas Stethatos] a Stercoranist, because he had said that the eucharist broke the fast; he anathematised him, and all who thought with him, until they should forsake their errors.

1841, J[ohann] J[oseph] Ig[naz von] Döllinger, “History of the Heresies, Dogmatical Contests, and Schisms”, in Edward Cox, transl., A History of the Church […], volume III, London: C[harles] Dolman, […], and by T[homas] Jones, […], →OCLC, section IX (Relations of the Two Churches in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. Renewal of the Schism by Michael Cerularius), page 106:

Adherents of Christ's material presence in the Eucharist had also to answer (or deflect, with ridicule) the stercoranists, those who took seriously the possibility of Christ's body being not only masticated, but excreted, subject to all cloacal indignities.

2007, Eric S. Mallin, “Crackers (Titus)”, in Godless Shakespeare, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, part 1 (Hell), page 38:

(Christianity, derogatory, historical) One who believes that the Eucharist undergoes the process of digestion in, and eventually elimination from, the body of the recipient, not just in the empirical accidents of its elements, but as the body and blood of Christ.

one who believes that the Eucharist undergoes in essence the process of digestion in, and eventually elimination from, the body of the recipient

henkilö, joka uskoo ehtoollisen poistuvan kehosta muun ruoan tavoin


Novatianism

/nəʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm/

Novatianism still retained a measure of the Divine Spirit , and was honoured with furnishing those who suffered for Jesus

1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:

(historical, Christianity) A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.


Barnabite

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a religious order originally associated with the church of St. Barnabas in Milan.


semibull

(religion, rare) A bull issued by a pope in the period between election and coronation.


Gemara

(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.


Vaishnavism

From Sanskrit वैष्णव (vaiṣṇava, “related to Vishnu”) + -ism.

suffix

A branch of Hinduism focusing on the worship of Vishnu.

বৈষ্ণব

a branch of Hinduism focusing on the worship of Vishnu


Gemaric

(Judaism) Of or pertaining to the Gemara.


rotal

From Italian and Latin Rota (“an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic Church”) + -al (“forming adjectives”), under the influence of Latin rotālis.

der

(Catholicism) Of or relating to the Rota.


Gallicanism

en-noun

Gallicanism (countable and uncountable, plural Gallicanisms)

[…] after being ordained, [Wake] went to Paris in 1682 as chaplain to Viscount Preston. Here Wake came into close touch with Gallicanism […]

1912, “Wake, William”, in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, volume 12, page 237:

Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.

1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, →ISBN, page 8:

(historical, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.

高卢主义

doctrine of autonomy of the French church

It must be remembered that the Gelasian Sacramentary is a Gallican recension of a Roman Sacramentary, and that it abounds in Gallicanisms.

1895, F. E. Warren, “Introduction”, in The Antiphonary of Bangor: An Early Irish Manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, part 2, page xxviii:

The earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon books are full of Gallicanisms: just as the Stowe Missal, though it contains the Roman Canon, betrays at every turn its Celtic origin.

1904, C. J. B. Gaskoin, Alcuin: His Life and Work, page 217:

Whatever Gallicanisms are found in the Dominican rite were not taken directly from the Gallican rite—for this had long ceased to exist—but from the Roman rite. As a matter of fact some of the Gallican customs incorporated in the Roman rite were rejected by the Friars Preachers in favor of the more ancient practice of Rome.

1939, William R. Bonniwell, “The Dominican Rite”, in The American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 100, number 6, page 508:

(Christianity) A liturgical feature distinctive of the Gallican Rite.


Vedanta

Borrowed from Sanskrit वेदान्त (vedānta).

A Hindu system of philosophy concerned with the self-realisation by which one comes to understand the ultimate nature of reality, or Brahman.


sacramentary

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin sacramentarium; compare French sacramentaire.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.

sakramentář

ancient book containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.


Valentinian

From Valentinus + -ian, named after the founder.

(historical) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century.


Vulcanian

Directly from Latin Vulcāniānus or from Latin Vulcānius + -an within English, from Vulcānus + -iānus (“-ian”) or -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). In reference to a type or stage of volcanic activity, via Italian Vulcaniano, with specific reference to Giuseppe Mercalli's observations of the 1888–90 eruptions of the Aeolian island Vulcano. Equivalent to Vulcan + -ian. Doublet of volcanian. Compare slightly earlier Middle French vulcanien.

...Nor cou'd Vulcanian Flame
The Stench abolish; or the Savour tame...

1697, John Dryden translating Vergil as Georgics, Book III, in The Works of Virgil, p. 121

(Roman mythology) Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.

Yet Muto, like a good Vulcanian,
An honest Cuckold, calls the bastard sonne,
And brags of that which others for him done.

1598, John Marston, “Certaine Satyres”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image..., page 41:

(rare, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, a cuckold.

(astronomy) Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.


selah

From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.

God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

1568, Matthew Parker, The holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe [The Bishops' Bible], London: Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, →OCLC, Habakkuk 3:3:

LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that riſe vp againſt me. / Many there bee which ſay of my ſoule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ſheild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 3:1–4:

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. / From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. / For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. / I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

1769, The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches [King James Version], Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, →OCLC, Psalm 61:1–4:

[…] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of סֶלָה (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240

Students of Selah have been puzzled because in the psalms, which Mishna ascribes to each day of the week for the daily sacrifice, the desired number of Selahs is not to be found. The answer is that the pᵉraqim were timed to the ritual at the altar and that, even though the term Selah might not occur at all in some of these psalms, the pᵉraqim and prostrations referred to the actual Selah ceremony.

1968, Rembert Sorg, Habaqquq III and Selah, Fifield, Wis.: King of Martyrs Priory, →OCLC, page 33:

(biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.


selah

At times, we too, need to experience a "Selah" in our lives, a time when we pause and rest. To be still and rest is good therapy for today's fast pace of living. The heart strings may be taut, even on the verge of snapping. Suddenly, God inserts a "Selah," a rest, that we might pause and calmly think of Him.

1981, Millie Stamm, Be Still and Know, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14:

Unless the musicians themselves develop a prophetic lifestyle, the selah will be only an irritating piece of ritual. But if the musicians have an ear to hear, a selah will be a highly creative interlude that opens the door for the Holy Spirit to take the church into a higher level of inspiration.

2003, Stan Smith, Prophetic Song: Gateway to Glory, [s.l.]: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 142:

Your crossroads moment is often a transition time, or Selah, for him as well. Two Selahs happening at once can create added stress.

2004, Nancie Carmichael, Selah: Your Moment to Stop, Think, and Step into Your Future, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 133:

Maybe this is a good time for a Selah. Lol. It is for me. Selah means “pause, and think about that” or a more literal definition, “God had spoken.”

2014, Joshua Woods, A Song for the Lonely: The Missing Key to Once and for All Seal Your Pact With God, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 200:

(Christianity) A pause or rest of a contemplative nature.


Christocentrism

The latter, a principial christocentrism, may include the monergistic view of salvation, but it will also assume that Christ is the principium cognoscendi theologiae or, in Kickel's phrase the Erkenntnissgrund of theology.

A form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.


star seed

(New Age) A person who lived a previous lifetime in one star system but was then reincarnated in another star system.

tähteläinen

reincarnation from a different star system


halala

From Urdu حلالہ (halāla), the practice being called in Eastern Persian حلاله (halâla), while Iranian Persian uses محلل (mohallal), the Arabic term being تَحْلِيل (taḥlīl), scilicet نِكَاح التَحْلِيل (nikāḥ at-taḥlīl), زَوَاج التَحْلِيل (zawāj at-taḥlīl).

Since remarriage is not permitted after three divorces, they arrange Halala with some one, that is, on the condition that he divorces her, the next day after marriage.

1972, Ahmad Said, Fear of hell: translation of Dozakh ka khatka:

In the past my Mullah friend had performed halalas but now he lived according to the law of Christ which forbade him to do such an evil act.

1998, Ida Glaser, Partners Or Prisoners?: Christians Thinking about Women and Islam:

However, it is also stated that the process of halala cannot be used as a device to re-marry the former spouse. It must happen in the natural course of events.

2011, Flavia Agnes, Family Law: Volume 1: Family Laws and Constitutional Claims:

(Islam) A wedlease (temporary marriage) to a stranger undertaken prior to remarriage to an ex, that is to make the remarriage halal, or the woman halala f to marry.


altar girl

(Christianity) A girl serving as an acolyte.