Romanism

Romanism once extinguished, all other Sects will follow, and that the Catholic Religion—falsely so called—for Catholick means universal—is going, none now will venture to deny.

1790 August 1, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.

1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8:

It appears then that Warfield himself really suggests a better way of expressing such differences as obtain between Romanism and Protestantism, or between universalistic and particularistic Protestantism than he has himself employed.

1967 December 1, Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith, 3rd edition, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., page 71:

(chiefly derogatory) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.


Episcopalianism

I don’t know the first thing about Episcopalianism, but no one seems to mind when they find me sitting in the back pew, staring ahead at the figure of Christ on the cross.

2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 245:

The doctrines and practices of Episcopalians.


Christmas cheer

Food and drink, especially alcoholic beverages, consumed around the Christmas holiday.

The message of the astronauts, however, was not primarily one of Christmas cheer, and had nothing to do with the "Prince of Peace" or the "spirit of the season." Instead, it consisted of a dramatic reading of the first ten verses of the Book of Genesis, the story of the creation of the world.

1990, Rowland A. Sherrill, Religion and the Life of the Nation: American Recoveries, page 152:

The joyful and generous attitude expected of people at Christmas.


fathership

en-noun

fathership (countable and uncountable, plural fatherships)

From Middle English fadership, equivalent to father + -ship.

Your fathership

(religion) A title of respect addressed to a priest.


Crone

[…] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

2002, A.J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 90:

The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

2004, Aurora Greenbough, Cathy Jewell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spells and Spellcraft, page 9:

(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Mother and Maiden, representing an old woman.


thlipsis

From New Latin thlipsis, from Ancient Greek θλῖψις (thlîpsis, “pressure”).

der

This thlipsis is something possessed in common by monks who find their monastic life most difficult, and by those laypeople who would perhaps be monks if they were able.

2003, Robin Amis, A Different Christianity, page 268:

Then in verse 29 Jesus says immediately after this thlipsis there will be signs in the heavens, and Jesus returns with His angels to gather his saints.

2005, Elmer Wiebe, Who Is the Adventist Jesus?, page 254:


Maiden

(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman


pre-Cana

From pre- + Cana, from the biblical story of the wedding feast at Cana.

(Christianity, in Catholic tradition) Prior to a wedding.


chorepiscopal

chorepiscopal office

chorepiscopal power

(religion) Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.


Homologoumena

From New Latin homologūmena, from Ancient Greek ὁμολογούμενα (homologoúmena, literally “things agreed upon”), neuter plural form of the present mediopassive participle of ὁμολογέω (homologéō, “to agree with”).

ὁμολογούμενα

(Christianity) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; distinguished from Antilegomena.


unconversion

(religion) The state of being unconverted; impenitence.


mundatory

(Christianity) A purificator (napkin used during Holy Communion).


Gallican

Borrowed from Latin Gallicānus (“pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican”), from Gallicus (“Gaulish, French”) (from Gallia (“Gaul”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).

bor+

the Gallican church or clergy

Relating to the French Roman Catholic church, especially before the late 19th century.

高卢教会的

relating to the French Roman Catholic church

(Roman Catholicism, chiefly historical)
Relating to Gallicanism.


cloistress

Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


unigeniture

/ˌjuːnɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪtjʊə/

/ˌjuːnɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪtʃə/

/ˌjunɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃɚ/

From Latin unigenitus (“only-begotten”), from unus (“one”) + genitum (“to beget”).

1868, Rev. J. Gorle, An Analysis of Pearson on the Creed
Though therefore Christ be the only-begotten and the beloved Son of God, we must not regard these two attributes as equivalent in meaning, but as one depending on the other, the singular love on the unigeniture.

(theology) The state of being the sole begotten.


figurist

(Christianity, historical) A proponent of figurism.


manred

Borrowed from Welsh manred (“atom, mote”), formed from mân (“small”) + rhed (“course, flow”) in the 19th century.

They were made of the manred, that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the manred, […]

2003, Kennth Morris, “Druidism”, in G. De Purucker, editor, Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1930, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:

God pronounce his ineffable name, and Manred, the primal substance of the Universe, was formed. Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.

2004, Lewis Spence, “The Celtic Idea of the Origin of Man”, in An Introduction to Mythology, Cosimo, Inc, →ISBN, page 169:

(Celtic paganism, Theosophy) The primal substance of the Universe


antignostic

en-adj

antignostic (comparative more antignostic, superlative most antignostic)

more antignostic (comparative)
most antignostic (superlative)

An antignostic spirit pervades the Gospel

1851, The New Englander, volume 9, page 39:


Leukothea

From Ancient Greek Λευκοθέα; "white goddess".

(Greek mythology) A nymph or minor sea goddess of Greek mythology.


Fides

(Roman mythology) Roman goddess of trust and loyalty. Her Greek equivalent was Pistis.


Eunomia

From Ancient Greek Εὐνομία (Eunomía, “Order of Law, Good Order”).


Astraea

Translingual: Astraea

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀστραῖα (Astraîa, literally “star maiden”)

lbor

(Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of stars and justice; similar to Dike, equivalent to the Roman goddess Justitia.


Parthenope

From Latin Parthenopē, from Ancient Greek Παρθενόπη (Parthenópē, from παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin, virginal”) + ὄψ (óps, “voice”)).

der

(Greek mythology) One of the sirens, daughter of the god Achelous and the Muse Terpsichore.

(astronomy) 11 Parthenope, a main belt asteroid.


Bellona

But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]

1831, Thomas Campbell, The Power of Russia:

(Roman mythology) Roman goddess of war, wife or sister of Mars. Equivalent to the Greek goddess Enyo.


Amphitrite

From Ancient Greek Ἀμφιτρίτη (Amphitrítē).

(Greek mythology) A nymph, the wife of Poseidon.


Fortuna

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of luck, fortune and fate, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche.


Egeria

On the heroine of his play he dwelt with the passionate fondness of a lover: there the real mingled with the ideal: could he write of love, and not think of Ethel Churchill? She was the Egeria of his heart, who taught him all the truth of tenderness.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 165:

(Roman mythology) A nymph or minor goddess from Roman mythology.


Glasite

From Glas + -ite, after founder John Glas.

One of a Christian sect founded around 1730.


monkly

en-adj

monkly (comparative more monkly, superlative most monkly)

more monkly (comparative)
most monkly (superlative)

monkly habits

monkly haircut


rapturist

(religion) One who believes in the rapture.


savingly

en-adv

savingly (comparative more savingly, superlative most savingly)

more savingly (comparative)
most savingly (superlative)

But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.

1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112:

savingly born of water and the Spirit

1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained:

(religion) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.


more Catholic than the Pope

en-adj

more Catholic than the Pope (comparative form only)

Adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine.

по́ католик от папата

adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practice than is required

plus catholique que le pape plus royaliste que le roi


incensation

en-noun

incensation (countable and uncountable, plural incensations)

After the third incensation, the censer is given to a priest, vested in surplice, who, till the end of the consecration, continues going around the altar, incensing it on all sides, save when the bishop uses the censer.

(Roman Catholicism) The offering of incense.


reprobationer

Sanctifyed Reprobationers we abound with

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

(theology) Someone who believes in reprobation.


Lententide

From Lenten (“of or related to Lent”) + tide (“time”).


deceptor

(rare, nonstandard outside religion) A deceiver (weaver of deceptions).


lordolatry

But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed?

1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:

Worship of, or reverence for, lords (peers of the realm).


archidiaconal

/ɑːkɪdaɪˈækənəl/

[…] they giue good allowance of Episcopal dignitie & their iurisdiction but they vtterly disallow and would gladly infringe Archidiaconall power and weaken that first.

1604, William Tooker, chapter 6, in Of the Fabrique of the Church and Church-Mens Livings, London: John Norton, page 120:

1787, William Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine, of Durham, Newcastle: S. Hodgson, Volume 2, pp. 88-89,
[…] by compromise it was settled, that the prior should enjoy archidiaconal jurisdiction in the churches of Jarrow and Weremouth, and Goldesburgh throughout the rest for life.

[…] his Phi Beta Kappa key shone against a spotty black vest; he smelled of old pipes; he was altogether funereal and archidiaconal; and to real-estate brokerage and the jobbing of bathroom-fixtures he added an aroma of sanctity.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Chapter 3, page 26:

With Father Jolliffe cringing under the archidiaconal disapproval it ought to have been a chilling moment and, by Treacher at least, savoured and briefly enjoyed […]

2001, Alan Bennett, “The Laying on of Hands” in Four Stories, London: Profile Books:

Hicks wrote in the diary in July 1913 about the arrangements for the two forthcoming archidiaconal installations.

2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Pertaining to an archdeacon.

Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy


Lorettine

From Loretto + -ine, after Loretto, Kentucky, USA, where the order was founded.

One of a Roman Catholic order of nuns of the nineteenth century, devoting themselves to education and the care of destitute orphans.


antepaschal

Other Christians, for instance, had contented themselves with celebrating only one solemn fast in the year, namely, the Antepaschal one; but Montanus enjoined his followers to observe two additional weeks, with the exception of[…]

1854, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era: Being a Translation of "The Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great.", page 506:

(chiefly Christianity) Relating to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.


Newtonmas

Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, recommends celebrate Newtonmas on December 25th and ten extra days representing the interval between Newton's birth dates on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

2008 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The 10 Days of Newton”, in The New York Times:

(humorous) December 25 through January 4, Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Gregorian calendar).


Mariolater

(Protestantism, derogatory, religious slur) One who worships the Virgin Mary.


Swarga

From Hindi स्वर्ग (svarg, “heaven”), ultimately from Sanskrit स्वर्ग (svarga, “heaven”).


Green Monday

Synonym of Clean Monday, in Cyprus, the seventh Monday before Easter, used as the beginning of Lent in Greek Orthodoxy.


Green Monday

From green in its sense of “environmentally friendly”.

(US, marketing) The Monday before Christmas, used as a shopping event to order last-minute gifts for shipping before Christmas Day.


immersionist

(theology) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is an essential part of Christian baptism.


spiritism

en-noun

spiritism (countable and uncountable, plural spiritisms)


Essenism

Essenism (usually uncountable, plural Essenisms)

In taking leave , I add , as an extra argument against the possibility that Essenism could have been contemporary with the birth of Christianity[…]

1858, Thomas De Quincey, The Essenes Supplementary:

The doctrines or practices of the Essenes.


immersionism

(theology) The doctrine that immersion is an essential part of Christian baptism.


metamorphist

I would you did but see what I have seene in these Conntries, as concerning the deadly hatreds, contentions & differensions of Luther has of-fspring: as of the Muntzerans, Anabaptists, Adamists, […] Metamorphists, Iudaists, Neutersacramentaries, Image-breakers, […], & of such like: al which have sucked their errours out of the dregges of Luthers doctrine, and yet forsooth will be found Protestants all.

1604, George Abbot, The Reasons which Doctour Hill Hath Brought for the Upholding of Papistry, page 97:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into God when he ascended.

Concerning the progeny of the transfigured sinners, Muslim scholars split into two groups, which Cook figuratively designated as "creationists" and "metamorphists.” The former held that swine and monkeys were created in the form they exist today, whereas the latter believed that their contemporary apes and swine were the progeny of the transfigured sinners.

2022, Pavel Pavlovitch, Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist, page 121:

On the other hand, there was the metamorphist position that some species were not created at all; instead they were brought into existence through metamorphosis in later epochs, after which they enjoyed a biological fitness no less than that of created species.

2022, Michael Cook, Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition, page 54:

(Islam, theology) One who believes that some species were not part of the original creation but arose as the transformed souls of sinners.


inthronization

inthronization (countable and uncountable, plural inthronizations)

/inˌθɹəʊnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

From inthronize + -ation; compare Latin inthronizātiō, whence French intronisation, Galician entronización, Portuguese entronização, Spanish entronización.

The great feast at the inthronization of the reverend father in God, George Neavill Arch-Bishop of Yorke, Chancellour of England […]

1645, The great feast at the inthronization of the reverend father in God, George Neavill Arch-Bishop of Yorke, Chancellour of England, in the sixt yeere of Edward the fourth. Wherein is manifested the great pride and vaine glory of that prelate. The copy of this feast was found inrolled in the Tower of London, and was taken out by Mr. Noy His Majesties late Atorney Generall. Printed according to order, London: Printed for Edward Husbands, →OCLC, title page:

It is from this Policy of hers [the Roman Catholic Church], that all Names of Dignity and Diſtinction among Chriſtians, as Earl, Baron, Duke, Marquis, &c. had originally their Riſe as Hereditary Titles. To the ſame have been owing all the various Ceremonies of Inſtitutions and Inſtalments; and Coronations, as well as Inthronizations.

1732, [Bernard Mandeville], “The Second Dialogue Between Horatio and Cleomenes”, in An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War, London: Printed for John Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, →OCLC, page 93:

The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this. At the firſt courſe on Sunday […] dinner 9 Mar. being the day of the ſaid inthronization, was 'A Warner conveyed upon a rounde boorde, of viii panes, with viii Towres, imbattled and made with flowres, ſtandying on every towre a Bedil […] in his habit, with his ſtaffe[…]'

1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books, volume I, Oxford: John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661:

Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration. […] It was customary for bishops to preach sermons at their inthronization, and [Joseph] Bingham has cited several instances of this practice in the fourth and fifth centuries. Symeon of Thessalonica states, that the rite of inthronization was formerly celebrated with great solemnity by all the comprovincial bishops.

1845, William Palmer, Origines Liturgicae, or, Antiquities of the English Ritual: And a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies, 4th edition, volume II, London: Francis & John Rivington, →OCLC, page 310:

The Inthronization. The King ascended the Theatre, accompanied by the two Bishops his Supporters, the Great Officers of State, the Lords carrying the Swords, and the Lords who had borne Their Majesties' Regalia, and was Inthroned by the Archbishops, Bishops, and the other Peers, who then stood about the steps of the Throne.

1937 November 10, “Ceremonial of the Coronation of Their Majesties [King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, Westminster Abbey, London, 12 May 1937]”, in The London Gazette (Supplement), number 34453, page 7031 at 7056:

In fact, the possibility is not to be excluded that the inthronization of Jesus as Son of God was declared in the context of a resurrection appearance to Peter.

2000, Georg Strecker, Theology of the New Testament, Berlin & New York, N.Y., Louisville, Ky.: Walter de Gruyter; Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 358:


bhakta

Transliteration of Sanskrit भक्त (bhakta).

translit

But the Goswami seems to have got her drift and instead of bristling at her snub, he realized that here was an enlightened bhakta who had grasped the essence of the Lord.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 395:

(Hinduism) Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a devotee; a worshipper.


bright and morning star

When the wise men saw the star that led to Christ, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy :i but I shall shortly see Him, who is himself the bright and morning star

1654, Richard Baxter, The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, page 227:


Redeemer of Mankind

O God the Son, Redeemer of Mankind, Have Mercy on us.

1728, A Manual of Prayers and Other Chriſtian Devotions, §: “The Litany of the Saints and Angels”, page 50


Perfecter of the Elect

O God the Holy Ghoſt, Perfecter of the Elect, Have Mercy on us.

(Christianity) An epithet of the Holy Spirit.


Father of Heaven

O God the Father of Heaven, have Mercy upon us, miſerable Sinners. [¶] The addreſſing God the Father, by the Name of Father of Heaven, and the praying to him ſeparately, is juſtified by theſe Words of St. Paul, For this Cauſe I bow my Knees unto the Father of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named, Epheſ. iii. 13, 14.

1737, Laurence Clarke, “Of the Litany”, in A Compleat Exposition of the Book of Common-Prayer, page 37:

(Christianity) An epithet of God the Father.


Splendour of the Father

Indeed he expreſsly teaches that the Power of the Word, even when he thus humbles himſelf, does moſt perfect and nearly converſe with God the Father, and abiding in him, does more ineffably enjoy his Secrets, in like manner as Athanaſius ſays, The Word himſelf does not ſo condeſcend, but that he always remains the unalloyed Splendour of the Father.

1714, Bp George Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Chriſtianity Maintained and Defended (2nd ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Conſubſtantiality and Coeternity of the Son of God with God the Father, Aſſerted; or ſome few Animadverſions on a Treatiſe of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Anteniceniſmus, ſo far as the ſaid Author pretends to anſwer Dr. George Bull’s Defenſe of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, §: ‘Animadverſions on the Treatiſe itſelf’, page 950


Spirit of God

From Middle English Spirit of God, spirit of God, spiryt of God.

The Holy Spirit is now the Spirit of Christ as it was once known by the title of the Spirit of God.

1731, “Dialogue on the Holy Spirit”, in Alexander Campbell, editor, The Millennial Harbinger, volume 2, page 553:


Vaishnava

(Hinduism) A worshipper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.


eparch

From Ancient Greek ἔπαρχος (éparkhos), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”).

An Orthodox eparch, or metropolitan bishop, was installed in Polatsk in 992.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 246:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.


priorship

en-noun

priorship (countable and uncountable, plural priorships)

The state or office of prior; a priorate.


Gemarist

(Judaism) Someone versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.


Scotist

[…] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom.

1842, The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature:

(theology) A follower of John Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists.


Caodaiist

(religion) Somebody who adheres to Caodaism.


Caodaism

(religion) A syncretic monotheistic religion founded in the 20th century in Vietnam.

高臺教

a syncretic monotheistic religion founded in the 20th century in Vietnam


calceated

From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.

Prior to our perambulation of the prairie, I invested my crural organs with good gambados or spatterdashes, and had my pedal extremities well calceated, as a propugnation against the mordacity of amphisbaenas.

1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 23:

He should, however, also be calceated.

1925, The Train Dispatcher - Volume 7, page 381:

All Carmelites, both the barefoot and the calceated orders, were to be collected in the institutions at Straubing, while all the Augustinians were to be placed in the Augustinian monastery at Munich.

1935, Ernest Oscar Thedinga, Secularization in Bavaria during the Napoleonic era, page 79:

(uncommon) Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as distinguished from the barefoot mendicant orders.


Cao Dai

(religion) A syncretic monotheistic religion founded in the 20th century in Vietnam, which worships a deity of the same name.


Broad Church

Hampden contributed nothing to the theology of his time and specifically rejected the Broad Church in the 1860s.

1989, M. A. Crowther, “Church Problems and Churvh Parties”, in Gerald Parsons, editor, Religion in Victorian Britain IV: Interpretations, page 19:

The first Broad Church, in her view, included Coleridge, Arnold, Kingsley, and Maurice, and was spiritual in the same way as the Evangelicals.

2009, Herbert Schlossberg, Conflict and Crisis in the Religious Life of Late Victorian England, page 9:

Mid-nineteenth-century Anglican Broad Church thinkers included such figures as FD Maurice, AC Tait, AP Stanley, Benjamin Jowett, and Charles Kingsley. There was also a Broad Church movement (sometimes referred to as ‘liberal evangelical’) in Scotland,which included James Robertson, John Tulloch, John Caird and Norman MacLeod.

2011, Keith Robbins, Political and Legal Perspectives, page 62:

(Anglicanism) The movement to latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England; collectively, those people engaged in the movement.


Lamech

(biblical, Torah) Either of two antediluvians.

Either of two antediluvians.
The third-great-grandson of Cain.

Either of two antediluvians.
The father of Noah.


Neonomianism

(theology) The doctrine that the Gospel is a new law whose requirements are fulfilled by faith and repentance, most often associated with the theology of Richard Baxter (1615-1691).


Spiritual

But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church.

2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 56:

(Christianity, historical) A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.


Abba

From Middle English, from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”).

And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 4:6:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(Christianity) Father, an honorific title given to God in the New Testament, especially used in prayers.


partialist

(theology) One who believes in partialism, i.e. that Christ's atonement was made for only a part of humanity, the elect.


incameration

The Treaty of Pisa, signed the 17th of February 1664, ended the quarrels between the court of France and the pope. . . . ‘The pope shall revoke the incameration of the duchies of Castro and Ronciglione. The duke of Parma shall take possession of them, paying to the apostolical chamber the sum he owes it, of a million three hundred twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty crowns.’

1762, Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras, Nicolas Tindal, The History of England, Volume 12, page 382:

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) The incorporation of certain property, rights, or income into the dominion of the Pope.


Origenist

Borrowed from Late Latin Ōrigenista, from Ōrigenēs + -ista. By surface analysis, Origen + -ist.

(Christianity) Of or relating to Origenism, the teachings of Origen of Alexandria that were anathematized by the Synod of Constantinople (543).


gestatorial chair

gestatorial chair (plural gestatorial chairs)

A calque of Latin and Italian sedia gestatoria (“carrying chair”).

bor

(historical) A sedan chair used as a portable throne by popes.


solicitant

Latin solicitans, present participle of sollicitō.

How like to the conduct of a Titular Bishop of Derry, who, when a Priest was accused of the crime of "solicitant at confession," expressed his abhorrence of the offence, and punished the offender by removing him to a better parish!

1840, The Orthodox Presbyterian Theological Review and Missionary Recorder:

Solicitant, one who, abusing the privacy of the confessional, tempts women to a violation of chastity.

1894, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume 9, page 861:

That the Confessional has been grossly used for immoral purposes, by evil-disposed priests, and that to a gigantic extent in the Church of Rom, is amply proved, beyond the possibility of refutation, by the Bulls of the Popes themselves against solicitant priests.

1898, Walter Walsh, The Secret History of the Oxford Movement, page 118:

(Catholicism, historical) A priest who abused the confessional to solicit women.


coenobium

en-noun

coenobium (plural coenobiums or coenobia)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin coenobium (“cloister, convent; monastery”), from Koine Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “life in community; monastery”), the neuter form of κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”). Doublet of coenoby.
The plural form coenobia is borrowed from Late Latin coenobia.

der

The Radiolaria are marine rhizopods, whose unicellular body always consists of two parts,— […] The individuals are usually single: in only a small minority are the unicellular organisms united in colonies or caenobia.

1887 June 17, “Challenger Report”, in Science.—Supplement, volume IX, number 228, New York, N.Y.: The Science Company, →OCLC, page 596, column 2:

eutely Phenomenon exhibited by a few phyla, notably nematodes, where all individuals have the same number of cells (or nuclei in a coenobium).

2007, “eutely”, in J. M. Lackie, editor, The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology, 4th edition, Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 151, column 1:

(zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism.

kenobio

colony of unicellular organisms which acts as a single organism


ecclesiarch

(Christianity) An official of the Eastern Church, equivalent to a sacristan in the Western Church.


intertestamental

From inter- + testamental, in reference to the Old and New Testament.

While no full length study has been pursued on the intertestamental influence upon I Cor. 1:18–3:23, a number of scholars find similarity between intertestamental literature and different sections of this passage.

2001, H. H. Drake Williams, III, The Wisdom of the Wise: The Presence and Function of Scripture within 1 Cor. 1:18–3:23, page 15:

(Christianity) Pertaining to the time between the writing of Malachi and the writing of the New Testament, roughly the last four centuries BCE and first half of the first century.


high priestess

en-noun

high priestess (plural high priestesses)

(Wicca) A third degree (sometimes forth degree) female witch in Wicca.


insubjection

insubjection to God

(especially religion) Lack of subjection or obedience.


Frankism

From Frank + -ism, from the last name of Jacob Frank, the 18th-century Polish Jewish religious leader who initiated the movement.

(religion) An offshoot of Judaism started by the Polish Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank.


self-life

The story of the Bible is therefore the story of the fall of man by listening to the self-life, in time being brought back to oneness with the Divine through the work of a Human-Divine Redeemer, the seed of the woman.

1947, Walter Brown Murray, What Is The True Christian Religion?, Chapter 2:

That recurring idea of isolation, the sense of the secrecy of men's bosoms, the perception of life as always lying in the shadow that falls on it, proceeded from predilections of his own, differentiating him from other men; there may have been no very perilous stuff in his breast, nothing to confess or record peculiar to himself in act or experience, no intensity of self-life, but there was this temperament of the solitary brooder upon life.

1902, George Edward Woodberry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 4:

(religion) Life dedicated to oneself, pleasure or self-fulfilment, often as opposed to a life devoted to God.


Laetare Sunday

From Latin Laetare (“Rejoice!”), the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Isaiah 66:10.

Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday#English

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday of Lent.


DPT

Doctor of Practical Theology
w:Doctor of Practical Theology

(theology) Initialism of Doctor of Practical Theology.


broadbrim

(humorous or derogatory, dated, often capitalized) A Quaker.


cronehood

Many circles create ceremonies to mark a woman's passage into cronehood and designate special status to crones

2000, Beverly Engel, Women Circling the Earth, page 34:

An archaic term, really, but I like it. crone: A menopausal or post-menopausal Wiccan. The time at which a woman assumes her cronehood is intensely individual.

2006, Ashleen O'Gaea, Family Wicca: practical paganism for parents and children, page 213:

Grant (name) the gifts of inspiration, and a clear and quick mind as he/she approaches the honored state of (Sagehood/Cronehood).

2007, Kevin M. Gardner, A Handbook for Wiccan Clergy, page 29

She speaks her commitment to herself as an elder and to the aspects of cronehood she will celebrate.

2007, Ruth Barrett, Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation, page 9:

(Wicca) The elderly stage of a female Wiccan witch (compared with the Crone aspect of the Goddess).


Deuteronomist

(religion) One of the sources identified as underlying much of the Hebrew Bible (or Christian Old Testament), and responsible for material in Deuteronomy and other areas.


atheophobe

Yeah, why would I read something by an atheophobe with no understanding of what atheism is?

2000 June 5, Ed. Stoebenau, “Re: Why are Christians surprised that Atheists are normal???”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <odfojs07c572caog2ep058248er7lumqc1@4ax.com>:

And it must be done among believers by shaming the atheophobes, pointing out to them the destructive, irrational, and especially immoral nature of their prejudice and challenging them to jettison it.

2009 October/November, David Rand, “Theism As Hate Propaganda”, in Free Inquiry, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN:

A person who hates or fears atheism or atheists.


atheophobic

en-adj

atheophobic (comparative more atheophobic, superlative most atheophobic)

more atheophobic (comparative)
most atheophobic (superlative)

From atheo- (“from a- + theo-”) + -phobic.

He was atheophobic.

1987, Robert L. Rafford, “Atheophobia: An Introduction”, in Religious Humanism, volume 21, Fellowship of Religious Humanists, page 34:

These students, along with some faculty, are the non-believers who fit the atheophobic stereotypes that I mentioned earlier.

2003 Spring, Robert J. Nash, “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, in Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, New York, →DOI, →ISSN:

Is it possible to believe in a god-creator of moral principles and nevertheless not be atheophobic, i.e., not consider non-believers morally inferior?

Having fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.


atheous

atheous (comparative more atheous, superlative most atheous)

more atheous (comparative)
most atheous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “without God/gods”). See atheist.

uder

I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic.

1880, Harvey Goodwin, “God and Nature”, in Popular Science:

(obsolete) Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.


Tractarian

(Anglicanism) A member of the Oxford movement.


Tractarian

en-adj

Tractarian (comparative more Tractarian, superlative most Tractarian)

more Tractarian (comparative)
most Tractarian (superlative)

(Anglicanism) Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.


trental

From Medieval Latin trentāle directly or via Old French trentel, from the neuter substantive of *Vulgar Latin trenta + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from Latin trīgintā (“thirty”).

Trentals seyde he, deliueren fro penaunce Hir freendes soules.

c. 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Summoner's Tale:

their trentals and their shrifts

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

(Christianity) A set of 30 requiem masses, said once a day for a month or all in one day.

(Christianity) The payment for this service.

(Christianity, archaic) Synonym of month's mind, the commemorative service held on the 30th day after burial.


terminist

(theology) One who supports the doctrine of terminism.


terminism

(theology) The Christian doctrine that there is a time limit for repentance from sin, after which God no longer wills the conversion and salvation of the sinner.


Te Deum

From the hymn's opening words, Te Deum laudamus ("Thee, O God, we praise").

Many of these actions […] further reverberated in public consciousness through the ceremonial celebration of Te Deums, religious rejoicings which were periodically commanded in every parish in the land to give collective thanks for the ruler's triumphs.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3:

A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part; a public thanksgiving.


theandric

one Theandrick or Deivirile Action

1693, Louis Ellies Du Pin, A New History of Ecclesiastical Writers:

(theology) Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.


baldhead

(Rastafari) A person who is not Rastafarian.


successionist

One who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.

(religion) One who insists that only apostolic succession is valid.


Orcus

From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc.

Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

(Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.


lemures

Coordinate term: Lares

The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 13:

(Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.


Xemu

Publication of secret documents blaming the world's troubles on an interplanetary tyrant named Xemu has held the Church of Scientology up to public ridicule. But church officials insist the disclosure will leave no long-term scars, and they predict the controversial organization will continue to gain members and to prosper.

1985 November 17, Miami Herald staff, “Scientology battered but not bowed in row over secret papers”, in Miami Herald, page 12A:

Xemu ruled the 90-planet Galactic Confederation 75-million years ago, when overpopulation was a problem. So Xemu solved the problem: He trapped selected beings and flew them to volcanoes on Earth, then called Teegeeach. He then dropped powerful H-bombs on the volcanoes. The beings were destroyed in a wall of fire. However, their spirits, or "thetans," weren't. Gathering them into clusters, Xemu trapped the thetans in frozen alcohol and glycol.

1988 December 23, Stephen Koff, “Xemu's Cruel Response To Overpopulated World”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 10A:

After the explosions, the Thetan spirits, deprived of bodies, were packaged by Xemu and electronically implanted so they would reproduce in later generations of human beings. Each human today is a cluster of Thetans with one dominant. This is the cause of aberration, internal conflict and unhappiness. Only through paying for the costly further Scientology training could humans break through the wall of fire, revisit the Xemu incident, have their less dominant Thetans removed and at last become unaberrated, mentally healthy.

1998, Robert Cogan, Critical Thinking: Step By Step, University Press of America, page 226:

A more elaborate version of the Xenu/Xemu story appears in a lecture attributed to Hubbard from September 1968, also now widely available online. This provides further details of Xemu's evil plot: apparently, the thetans were packed into refrigerated units, put onto DC 8 planes, and then blown up in volcanoes. After that, the disembodied thetans were collected, packed into boxes, and forced to watch 3-D movies. Meanwhile, a group of loyal officers revolted and captured Xemu, locking him in the center of a mountain with an electric fence.

2011, Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, Princeton University Press, page 103:

(Scientology) Alternative spelling of Xenu


UFO religion

Raelians follow a UFO religion.

More particularly, and important for understanding much UFO religions, is Blavatsky's belief that certain masters dwelt on Venus.

2003, Christopher Hugh Partridge, UFO religions, Routledge, page 10:

UFO religions are even stranger than science fiction.

2004, Susan J. Palmer, Aliens adored: Raël's UFO religion, Rutgers University Press, page 3:

UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.

2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 167:

A religion in which extraterrestrials figure prominently.


Malebranchism

/ˌmæləˈbɹæntʃɪzəm/

The theological-philosophical system of the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), based on the doctrine that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.


Black Monk

A Benedictine monk, one of the Order of Saint Benedict.


acroteleutic

From Ancient Greek ἀκροτελεύτιον (akroteleútion, “extreme end”).

der

ἀκροτελεύτιον

This mode of conducting the psalmody was sometimes called singing acrostics and acroteleutics, and is the apparent origin of the Gloria Patri repeated at the end of each psalm in our liturgical services.

1853, John Farrar, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary:

And in this respect the Gloria Patri itself is by some ancient writers called the hypopsalma or epode, and acroteleutic to the psalms, because it was always used at the end of the psalms.

1855, Richard Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 18:

And this they would generally keep for an Acroteleutic at the end of their psalms.

1887, A History of Music: book III. The decline of paganism and the dark ages:

(obsolete, Christianity) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.


Erastian

Napoleon may not have believed in God, but he certainly believed in the desirability of religion, and, while his outlook was naturally Erastian, he was anxious from the first to restore normal relations with the Papacy.

1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 96:

(theology, historical) Of or relating to Thomas Erastus (1524–1583), Swiss physician and theologian, or his doctrines, associated with the idea that the State should have supremacy in ecclesiastical matters.


White Friar

A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order.


om mani padme hum

From Sanskrit ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ, (oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐,, “the wish-fulfilling jewel in the lotus”), internally derived from मणि (maṇi, “wish-fulfilling jewel”) and पद्म (padma, “lotus”). ॐ (oṃ) and हूँ (hūm̐) are not translated.

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ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ,

(Buddhism) A mantra associated with Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, the primary mantra of Tibetan Buddhism.


lionism

From lion (“big cat (Panthera leo); (figurative) famous person regarded with interest and curiosity; person who shows attributes associated with the lion such as courage, ferocity, or strength”) + -ism (suffix forming names of schools of thought, systems, or theories, or of tendencies of action, behaviour, condition, state, condition, or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons).
Sense 1 (“19th-century practice of bringing an interesting person or object into one’s home as entertainment for visitors; state of being such a person or object”) refers to the lions previously on display at a menagerie in the Tower of London, which existed till the 19th century. Sense 4 refers to the Lion of Judah, a hereditary title of Haile Selassie I (1892–1975), the Emperor of Ethiopia, who is revered by some members of the Rastafari movement as the messiah; the lion is thus a symbol of Rastafarianism.

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[page 73] Lionism transcends even Haile Selassie who merely came in the name of the Lion – as "The Conquering Lion of Judah" or as the "man-lion from Mount Zion." […] [page 75] Most Rastas attempt to become lions by attempting to syncretise and use all of these elements [Anancism, Judaic-Christianity, and African-Original Vibrations], as a means for their survival and progress. But some of these factors have ceased to be sources of strength – they have now become fetters and chains. […] Yet it is here, in this repressed sphere of African original roots vibrations, that the enduring foundations of true lionism is to be found. Ultimately, then, the return to Lionism means destroying or transcending major ingredients of our inherited selves – albeit our acquired (slave) selves.

1980 December, Dennis Forsythe, “West Indian Culture through the Prism of Rastafarianism”, in R[alston] M[ilton] Nettleford, editor, Caribbean Quarterly: Rastafari, volume 26, number 4, Mona, Jamaica: Department of Extra-mural Studies, University of the West Indies, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, pages 73 and 75:

The remainder of [Dennis] Forsythe’s paper and the subsequent book that followed elaborated on implementing the characteristics of ‘lionism’ and achieving Rasta’s true ideal: […]

1999, William David Spencer, “The ‘Eastern’ Christ of Rastafari”, in Dread Jesus, Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 1 April 2011, →ISBN, page 67:

Ten years after, [Leonard Percival] Howell purchased ‘Pinnacle estate in Sligoville, St. Catherine[…] . . . the first free village established after “given emancipation” in 1938’[…]. It was at this site that ‘lionism’ and other fundamental RastafarI^([sic]) tenets were first developed.

2010, Delano Vincent Palmer, “The Story of RastafarI”, in Messianic ‘I’ and Rastafari in New Testament Dialogue: Bio-narratives, the Apocalypse, and Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Lanham, Md.; Plymouth, Devon: University Press of America, →ISBN, part I (Chronological Overview), page 21:

(Rastafari) The ideals of Rastafarianism.


transubstantiator

Roman Transubstantiators

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

(theology) Someone who holds the doctrine of transubstantiation.


Anabaptism

en-noun

Anabaptism (countable and uncountable, plural Anabaptisms)

From Latin anabaptismus, from ecclesiastical Koine Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) + βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”) (compare modern Greek αναβαπτισμός (anavaptismós)); cognate with French anabaptisme. See anabaptize.

der

ἀναβαπτισμός

1968, Cornelius Krahn, Dutch Anabaptism: Origin, Spread, Life and Thought (1450–1600), Martinus Nijhoff, page 185,
Following somewhat the thesis of Vos and Mellink pertaining to the origin of Anabaptism in the Netherlands, J. F. G. Goeters has recently challenged Rembert's approach and conclusions. He points out that the actual practice of re-baptism, or adult baptism, prior to the Münster catastrophe was minimal and concludes that the early reformatory movement of the German Lower Rhine was a popular movement containing humanistic, Lutheran, and spiritualistic-sacramentarian elements. Anabaptism did not stand at the beginning of this reformation movement, according to Goeters, but entered midstream and helped too clarify concepts. It constituted a radicalization of the spiritualistic-sacramentarian movement.

1989 [Addison Wesley Longman], Peter Limm, The Dutch Revolt 1559—1648, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 135,
As an organised movement Anabaptism had its roots in Zurich where Conrad Grebel and others began to demand a more radical reformation than Zwingli. The distinctive features of Zurich Anabaptism were: the acknowledgement of no authority other than the Bible; the true church consisted only of the 'saints' who had undergone spiritual conversion (a conviction which led adherents to support adult baptism, a feature which gave the movement its distinctive name); withdrawal of the 'saints' from the secular community (which meant refusal to take part in government and a refusal to obey man-made laws).

Anabaptism in South Germany and Austria had a different flavor than the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland. Whereas Anabaptism in Switzerland arose in opposition to Zwingli's slow pace of reform, Anabaptism in South Germany and Austria was shaped by the failed Peasants' War and was influenced by the apocalyptic theology of Thomas Müntzer.

2014, Kate Eisenbise Crell, Cooperative Salvation: A Brethren View of Atonement, Wipf and Stock, page 6:


Tabor

From Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר (Tāḇôr), of uncertain origin.

the light of Tabor

(Christianity, metonymically) The Transfiguration of Jesus


cloisterer

From Middle English cloystrer, cloysterer, from Old French cloistrier; equivalent to cloister + -er; compare Old French cloistier.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.


chrismal

chrismal oil

chrismal Mass

(religion) of, pertaining to, or used during a confirmation or christening.


associationist

(Islam) a mushrik; one who ascribes partners to Allah (God) or believes in the Trinity.

(Judaism) a shitufi; one who ascribes partners to Hashem (God) or believes in the Trinity.


Trimurti

From Sanskrit त्रिमूर्ति (trimūrti), equivalent to tri- (“three”) + murti (“form, embodiment of an idea, person or deity”).

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1874, Later Hindu Myths, in The Monthly Packet, New Series, Volume 17, John and Charles Mozley, page 481,
We now turn to the third Person in the Trimurti—Siva, the destroyer—but in doing so it is as well to remark that the character and attributes of the Hindu divinities are not very clearly defined, the special offices and qualities of one being often attributed to the other; thus Vishnu often appears as the destroyer and avenger, Siva sometimes as the restorer and redeemer.

We must first note that Hindus themselves were sober in their assessment of Trimurti, which was never a universally accepted doctrine. For instance, in the Tamil devotional tradition of the medieval Vaisnava saints known as the alvars, we find ambivalence toward "the three." Their hymns both recognize the Trimurti and downplay its importance.

2011, Francis X. Clooney, “Trinity and Hinduism”, in Peter C. Phan, editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity, Cambridge University Press, page 315:

2018, Swami Achuthananda, The Ascent of Vishnu and the Fall of Brahma, Relianz Communications, page 23,
It was not until the arrival of the Puranas that the Trimurti, as we know them today, became accepted as standard doctrine. One of the earliest images of Trimurti can be found at one of the many caves on Elephanta,¹⁶ an island near Mumbai, India.

(Hinduism) The trinity of supreme divinity, as represented by the forms of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the maintainer or preserver), and Shiva (the destroyer or transformer).

ত্রিমূৰ্তি

triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism


koliva

From Ancient Greek κόλλυβα (kólluba, “small cakes”), from κόλλυβος (kóllubos, “small coin”).

uder

A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava.


khakkhara

Borrowed from Sanskrit खक्खर (khakkhara, “beggar’s staff”).

bor+

(religion) a monk's staff used especially by a Buddhist mendicant as a tool for begging or as a weapon


diskos

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos) (nominative plural δίσκοι (dískoi)). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and disk.

doublet

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A small plate used to hold eucharistic bread which is to be consecrated; a paten.


Son of Heaven

Calque of Literary Chinese 天子, from the Emperor having the Mandate of Heaven.


dothead

From dot + head, referring to the bindi.

Two weeks later, in another meeting, Sandy announces, “We've assembled a great team of dotheads in Karachi.” No one else seems bothered by this—or even appears to notice anything strange about it—so once again you say nothing.

2011, David Knighton, The Wisdom of the Healing Wound, page 116:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A South Asian person.


Holy Family

(Christianity) Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Joseph.


torii

From Japanese 鳥居 (torii, literally “bird abode”).

bor

The torii marks the entrance to the sacred grounds of a shrine. There are a variety of types of torii, each with a unique history. Regardless of origin, the torii is inseparably identified with the image of Shinto.

1994 November 22, Stuart D. B. Picken, Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 146:

(Shinto) A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred.


Tsukuyomi

Borrowed from Japanese 月読 (つくよみ, Tsukuyomi), originally a compound of 月 (つく, tsuku, “the moon”) + 読み (よみ, yomi, “reading”, ancient meaning of “counting”).

af

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese moon god, son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.


catlicker

Compound of cat + licker, phonetically similar to Catholic.

Well, I was in that game. And we were playing the game and we'd fall over on their side, and they'd kick us and they'd shout at us that we were Mexicans and catlickers. That was what they called a Catholic.

2010, José Inez Taylor, James M. Taggart, Alex and the Hobo: A Chicano Life and Story, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 106:

(colloquial, derogatory, Christianity) A Catholic person.


Hicksite

(US, historical) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Quakers in 1827.


jihobbyist

Blend of jihadist + hobbyist. Coined by Jarret Brachman in Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice (2008).

One who supports jihad and radical Islam despite not being a member of any violent jihadist organization.


Talmudist

From Talmud + -ist. Compare French talmudiste.

Someone who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.


Mazdean

en-adj

Mazdean (comparative more Mazdean, superlative most Mazdean)

more Mazdean (comparative)
most Mazdean (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Mazda, the Zoroastrian deity.


psychopannychism

From psycho- + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, “all night long”) + -ism.

der

(theology) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.


tamkin

[…] concepts such as tamkin (woman's duty to submit to her husband's will) and nushuz (her refusal to submit, rebellion), which legitimate women's subordination in marriage, but instead they add two qualifiers.

1996, Mai Yamani, Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, page 294:

It's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin?

2002, Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early, Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, →ISBN, page 140:

Since Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change. Reformist Islamist women have also proposed to modify the issue of tamkin.

2002, Hammed Shahidian, Women in Iran: Emerging voices in the women's movement, page 56:

(Islam) A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will.


Eunomian

(historical, theology) A follower of Eunomius, the bishop of Cyzicus in the 4th century, who believed that Jesus Christ was not of, or like, the same nature as God


rubricity

(religion) Accordance with the religious rubric.


postcommunion

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin postcommūniō. By surface analysis, post- + communion.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.


covenstead

From coven + stead; first attested in 1969.

He began being late for meetings and, as some members travelled quite a distance to the covenstead and had to leave promptly afterwards, Alex took him to task.

1969, June Johns, King of the witches: the world of Alex Sanders, page 108:

1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link
It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.

1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29,
If that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead.

The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.

1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions, page 66:

(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.

For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.

1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, published 2005, page 104:

In connection with these principles the Dianic Covenstead had a very effective series of exercises and techniques for regaining kinship and attunement with nature.

2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, page 128:

It was easy to say they'd all get along fine—join other covensteads or live free like most everybody else, but the truth was that joining a covenstead was no easy task, and most wouldn't know what to do with themselves without a witch to serve.

2009, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book, page 53:

(Wicca, metonymically) A Wiccan congregation.


capitularly

en-adv

capitularly (comparative more capitularly, superlative most capitularly)

more capitularly (comparative)
most capitularly (superlative)

The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example

1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

(religion) In the manner or form of, or acting as, a religious chapter.


bat mitzvah

en-noun

bat mitzvah (plural bat mitzvahs or b'not mitzvah)

bat mitzvahs (plural)
b'not mitzvah (plural)

From Hebrew בַּת מִצְוָה (bát mitsvá, “bat mitzvah, someone who has come of age”).

bor

בַּת מִצְוָה

(Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl.


Apollinarian

(historical, theology) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

apolinário

a follower of Apollinaris, who denied the proper humanity of Christ


goel

Borrowed from Hebrew גוֹאֵל (goél, “he redeems”).

The go·el neutralizes the deleterious effect of the blood of the slain, restoring the ecologic balance.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 963:

(historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.


covendom

(Wicca) The area served by a covenstead and inhabited by members of the coven.


ancestor worship

The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry:

(anthropology, religion) Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors.

vooroueraanbidding

veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors


subcinctorium

(Christianity) An ornamental vestment reserved for the pope, resembling a maniple and worn at a solemn pontifical Mass.


Minorites

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor#English

(Catholicism) Synonym of Order of Friars Minor: the Franciscans, sometimes particularly the Conventuals.


Taborite

From Czech Táborita. Equivalent to Tabor + -ite, after Tábor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during the Hussite Wars, later a town. See also Czech tábor.

(Christianity, historical) A radical Hussite; an adherent of radical Hussitism at the time of the Bohemian Reformation, who rejected the unique authority of the Catholic Church in matters of faith and was considered heretical.


tripaschal

(Christianity, historical) Including three Passovers.


Puseyism

[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The reason I'd never be a member of the public is because they are all heading for Daedalian Doom! Oh yes! They'd like me to back their puny Puseyism. Join the gum-feathered fancies of their flimsy flight – An Icarian end!

1959 April 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 34:

The principles of Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English churchman and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.


Twelfthtide

Plough Monday, next after that Twelftide is past, / bids out with the plough, the woorst husband is last. / If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, / maides loseth their cock if no water be seene.

1580, Thomas Tusser, “The Ploughmans Feasting Daies”, in W[illiam H.] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. … The Edition of 1580 Collated with those of 1573 and 1577. Together with a Reprint, from the Unique Copy in the British Museum, of “A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie,” 1557 (Series D., Miscellaneous; vol. 8, nr. 21), London: Printed for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill, published 1878, →OCLC, page 180:

The Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir John Talbot. […] Therefore I will propose all the ways that I can think of and desire your opinion which is the safest, whether by a coach that often passes by here in its way to London, but the inconvenience of that is that it goes no more till towards Twelfthtide, or else by my own horses either publicly or privately, or else post.

1678 December 14, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Bucculech & Queensberry, K.G., K.T., Preserved at Montagu House, Whitehall (Cd. 930), volume II, part 1 (The Shrewsbury Papers), London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Mackie & Co. Ld., published 1903, →OCLC, page 28:

The custom of eating twelfth cake, and especially of drawing for king and queen, on the Epiphany, or twelfth day, or twelfth tide, or old Christmas day (January 6), as it is variously termed, is antique. In the ancient Calendar of the Romish Church, is an observation on the fifth day of January, the vigil of the Epiphany, "Kings created or elected by beans;" and the sixth is called "The Festival of Kings," with the additional remark, "that the ceremony of electing kings was continued with feasting for many days."

1828 December 20, “Popular Superstitions. [Chapter II. The New Year.]”, in The Extractor; or Universal Repertorium of Literature, Science, and Arts: Comprehending, under One General Arrangement, the Whole of the Instructive and Amusing Articles from All the Reviews, Magazines, and Journals. The Whole Carefully Compiled, Digested, and Methodised, volume I, number VIII, London: Printed for the proprietor, and published at The Extractor Office, 150, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 280:

The cost of the Revels at Christmas, New-year-tide, Twelfth-tide and Shrovetide, all falling within the four months from the end of October, 1573, to the beginning of March, 1573–4, was 672l. 14s. 2d.: it included the expenses of preparations, &c., for plays and masks (each mask having its torchbearers), a list of which, as performed at Christmas, New-year-tide, and Twelfth-tide, is given as follows, in the account of the Office of the Auditors of the Imprest.

1831, J[ohn] Payne Collier, “Annals of the Stage, from the Year 1558 to the Year 1575”, in The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration, volume I, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, →OCLC, page 207:

SUPERNATURAL BEINGS OF TWELFTHTIDE. In the greater part of the north of Germany the belief is not yet wholly defunct, particularly among the peasantry, of the wandering of certain supernatural beings during the twelve days of Christmas; […]

1852, “North German Customs and Superstitions”, in Benjamin Thorpe, compiler, Northern Mythology, Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany and the Netherlands. Compiled from Original and Other Sources, … In Three Volumes, volumes III (North German and Netherlandish Popular Traditions and Superstitions), London: Edward Lumley, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, →OCLC, page 153:

[T]he highlight of medieval Twelfthtide festivities was the food, where a variety of meats, sweets, and drinks were served.

2010, Michele Sinclair, chapter 4, in The Christmas Knight (Zebra Historical Romance), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN:

Vevčani has held a Twelfthtide carnival on 13 and 14 January every year since the middle of the 6th century. The 12 days after Christmas, which in the Orthodox calendar is on 7 January, are meant to be a time when evil spirits are at their most active with regards to wreaking havoc on the coming year.

2012 May, Thammy Evans, “Pelagonia, Prespa and Pelister”, in Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 4th edition, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 200:

(archaic or obsolete) The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself.


Panislamism

A political movement advocating the unity of Muslims under one Islamic state or organization.


Minorite

From Medieval Latin Minorita, from Latin minor + -īta (“-ite”), from Ordo Fratres Minores (“Order of Friars Minor”), literally the "Order of the Lesser Brothers", chosen by St. Francis to inculcate humility in its members. Equivalent to minor + -ite. Doublet of minister.

Minores or Minorites descende from the aforesayd Barefootes, which be also vnder the rule and clothynge of S. Frauncisce.

1537, Anonymous, Original & Sprynge of All Sectes & Orders..., sig, C5v

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor

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

Our inquisiturient Bishops, and the attendant minorites their Chaplains...

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, section 9:

(Christianity, obsolete) A lesser cleric.


Minorite

The order of the Minors or Minorite Friers descended from one Francis... of... Asisium.

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [70]:

...a Frier Minorite, called Simon de Sanct. Quintin...

1598, Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations... of the English Nation, volume I, page 53:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: Of or related to the Franciscans.


Maurist

(historical) A member of the Congregation of St. Maur, a scholarly group of French Benedictines established in 1621.


particularist

en-adj

particularist (comparative more particularist, superlative most particularist)

more particularist (comparative)
most particularist (superlative)

From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.


cenobitism

The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution

1837, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Robert Huish, Travels in the Holy Land:

The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.


Puseyite

From Pusey + -ite, after Edward Bouverie Pusey.

(historical, originally derogatory) One who holds the principles of Puseyism; a member of the Oxford movement.


sectant

(crystallography) One of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.


synodically

the alterations made by the commissioners were brought to the Convocation then sitting, where they were Synodically agreed upon

a. 1715, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church:

(religion) In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.


psilanthropist

From Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare, mere”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”) + -ism.

der

the theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so ; and vice versa

One who believes that Jesus Christ was a mere man.


imparsonee

From Old French empersone. See in- and parson.

(UK, law, religion) Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession.


imparsonee

(UK, law, religion) A clergyman so inducted.


psilanthropy

(theology) The doctrine that Jesus Christ was merely human, i.e. not the son of God.


Waldense

From Medieval Latin Waldensis (c. 1170), so called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyon, who founded this sect around AD 1170. For the surname, see Waldo.

(historical, Christianity) A member of a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont.


latreutical

From Ancient Greek λατρευτικός (latreutikós), from λατρεύω (latreúō, “to serve, to worship”), + -al. Compare -latry.

[I]n this ſacred Supper there is a ſacrifice (in that ſenſe vvherein the Fathers ſpoke) none of vs euer doubted: but that is then, either Latreuticall (as [Robert] Bellarmine diſtinguiſhes it not ill) or Euchariſticall: […]

1614, Jos[eph] Hall, “No Peace with Rome. […]. Section 19. Concerning the Sacrifice of the Masse..”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 878:

We have already highlighted the primacy of the first of these, the latreutical end of this et-et, that is, of the adoration of God.

2020, Truth Is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology, translation of original by Mauro Gagliardi, page 656:


drighten

From Middle English drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”), equivalent to dright (“army, host”) + -en. Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), and with Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Old High German truhtin, Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”) (dialectal German Trechtin, Trechtein (“lord, God”)), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree.

cog

Believe me, my drighten, there is not one of us that has ever slacked on watch before!

(historical, Anglo-Saxon, Norse mythology, fantasy, paganism) A lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince.


psychography

en-noun

psychography (usually uncountable, plural psychographies)

(spiritualism) The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something.


artolatry

From Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, “bread”) + -latry.

(historical, Christianity) Bread-worship (the worship of the bread at Eucharist).


Areopagitic

en-adj

Areopagitic (comparative more Areopagitic, superlative most Areopagitic)

more Areopagitic (comparative)
most Areopagitic (superlative)

/ˌɛəɹiəʊpəˈd͡ʒɪtɪk/

Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.

In the concept of pantheism Khidasheli implies the unity of God and the world and not their similarity; he thinks that such an interpretation of pantheism is given in Neoplatonic and Areopagitic writings.

2014, Mikheil Makharadze, “Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum”, in Tamar Nutsubidze, Cornelia B. Horn, Basil Lourié, editors, Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context, BRILL, page 326:

In the West, the Areopagitic texts were translated by Hilduin (c. 785 — c. 855), Bishop of Paris, who received a manuscript at his monastery of Saint Denys, and Johannes Scotus Eriugena (815-877) who knew about them from his time in Irish monasteries and produced a widely known and used translation in middle and later medieval times.

2020, Constantinos Athanasopoulos, “5. The Cloud of Unknowing in Eckhart, Palamas, and Wittgenstein”, in Constantinos Athanasopoulos, editor, Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 88:

(theology, early Christianity, historical) Of or pertaining to the Corpus Areopagiticum of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.


Godcast

They are logging on to blogs, listening to Godcasts, interacting in chat rooms, and, in a sense, creating a highly personal just-for-me religion that connects a panoply of other beliefs.

2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 13–14:

(Internet, religion) A podcast featuring sermons or other content of a religious nature.


afflation

From Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare (“to blow or breathe on”), from ad + flare (“to blow”).

But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]

1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 111:


Piarist

A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.


Horned God

(Wicca) The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of the Father, Master, and the Sage.


Sekhmet

From Egyptian sḫmt (“Sekhmet”), in turn from sḫm (“to have control”) (compare sḫm jb (“violent”)).

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of death, war, violence, plague, and medicine; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah; depicted as having the head of a lioness.


Hathor

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἅθωρ (Háthōr), from Egyptian ḥwt-ḥr O10-C9.

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.


Bastet

From Egyptian bꜣstjt (“Bastet”, literally “she of the ointment jar”).

bor

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.


Olorun

The supreme god of the Yoruba pantheon, or the God of Abrahamic religions when identified with him.


Shakerism

en-noun

Shakerism (usually uncountable, plural Shakerisms)

(Christianity) The doctrines of the Shakers.


circumincession

circumincession (usually uncountable, plural circumincessions)

From circum- + Latin incedere, incessum (“to walk”).

(theology) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.


Ranter

(religion, historical) A member of an alleged sect in the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established church.

(religion, historical, derogatory) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervour and zeal.


Cluniac

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

1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

(historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.


corporealism

corporealism (countable and uncountable, plural corporealisms)

(theology) The belief that God has a physical body, as opposed to being immaterial.


Hexapla

From hexapla, from Ancient Greek ἑξαπλά (hexaplá), neuter plural of ἑξαπλοῦς (hexaploûs, “sixfold”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “hexa-: six”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

A Biblical hexapla: an edition of the Bible in six parallel versions or languages.


Susanoo

Borrowed from Japanese 須佐之男(すさのお) (Susanoo).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The main Japanese storm god (along with Raijin and Fūjin), son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.


Ogun

An orisha in the Yoruba religion, the god of war and technology.


hijabista

With the rise of Muslim fashion blogs, hijabistas asserting their tastes, and Muslim women designers making their mark, Muslimahs nowadays have more fashion and style choices than ever before.

2011, Adline A. Ghani, "Asian Muslim Women's Fashions of the Past", Aquila, May/June 2011

A Muslim woman or girl who dresses stylishly while conforming to the Islamic modesty code (hijab).


white magick

(Wicca) Any magick used for good purposes


threefold law

(Wicca) A key tenet of Wicca, stating that the energy a person puts out into the world, whether positive or negative, will return to them multiplied three times.


sagehood

handpartings, the recognition of crone- or sagehood, and funeral or memorial services.

1998, Amber K, Robin Wood, Covencraft, page 129:

An elder Wiccan man, a male crone. Saging: (SAGE-ing) A ritual to recognize and announce a man's attainment of sagehood

2006, Ashleen O'Gaia, Family Wicca: practical paganism for parents and children, page 220:

Grant (name) the gifts of inspiration, and a clear and quick mind as he/she approaches the honored state of (Sagehood/Cronehood).

2007, Kevin M. Gardner, A Handbook for Wiccan Clergy, page 29

(Wicca) The elderly stage of a male Wiccan (compared with the Sage aspect of the Horned God).


wiccaning

The welcoming rite — referred to as a wiccaning, a saining, or a paganing — serves a threefold purpose.

1999, Helen A. Berger, A community of witches, page 90:

(Wicca) A Wiccan ritual analogous to baptism for infants.


black magick

(Wicca) Any magick used for evil purposes


Tylerism

Tylerism (countable and uncountable, plural Tylerisms)

From Tyler + -ism. The abandoning-political-party sense came from John Tyler who is said to have done this after William Henry Harrison died in office.

(Christianity) The Reformed theology of Bennet Tyler.


omphalopsychite

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ὀμφαλοψυχίτης (omphalopsukhítēs), from ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”) + ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -ίτης (-ítēs, “-ite”), i.e. “one with his soul in his navel”, referring to the practice by some Hesychasts of gazing on the navel as a means to concentrate during meditation. By surface analysis, omphalo- + psych- + -ite.

bor+

ὀμφαλοψυχίτης


presuppositionalism

It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.

2004, Jerrold J. Katz, Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, page 115:

(theology) A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought.


Trisagion

en-noun

Trisagion (plural Trisagia or Trisagions)

From Medieval Latin trisagion, from Byzantine Greek τρισάγιον (triságion), from τρίς (trís, “thrice”) + ἅγιον (hágion, “holy”).

With these sure graces, while busy tongues are crying out for a drop of cold water, mutes may be in happiness, and sing the Trisagion in heaven.

1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 24:

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

(Christianity) A liturgical prayer that runs “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us” in English, typically sung before certain scriptural readings at Eucharistic liturgies in Eastern Christianity, and during the Good Friday Mass in the Roman Rite.


Sanctus

Borrowed from Latin sānctus (“holy”), the opening word of the prayer in that language. The prayer is taken from Isaiah 6:3 and Matthew 21:9. Doublet of saint.

A prayer in Christian liturgy, beginning “Holy, holy, holy …” and typically said or sung as a hymn shortly before the anaphora.


stational

Latin stationalis: compare French stationnale.

stational church

stational liturgy

stational worship

(Christianity) Of or relating to a station.


Antilegomena

From Ancient Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα (antilegómena), from ἀντι- (anti-, “against”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”).

der

ἀντιλεγόμενα

(Christianity) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical.

antilegomena

books of the New Testament which were formerly not universally considered canonical


devaprasnam

Transliteration of Sanskrit देवप्रश्नम् (devapraśnam).

translit

A deva prasnam conducted in July 1975 revealed that the image had been consecrated by a saint from Tirupati more than one thousand years ago.

1992, Kunissery Ramakrishnier Vaidyanathan, Sri Krishna, the Lord of Guruvayur:

The temple has been in the news since June when astrologer Panicker maintained that the ‘devaprasnam’ had revealed to him that the temple had been ‘defiled’ two decades ago.

2006, Pakistan & Gulf Economist, volume 25, page 109:

As the citizens of Trivandrum debated what to do about Vault B, the royal family and officials from the temple invited a group of astrologers to hold a four-day ceremony, known as a Devaprasnam, in order to ascertain the will of the deity.

2012 April 30, Jake Halpern, “The Secret of the Temple”, in The New Yorker:

(Hinduism) An astrological ritual carried out to interpret the will of the gods.


Apotactite

(Christianity, historical) One of an ancient sect of Christians in Asia Minor, originating in the third century AD, who renounced all their possessions.


Angelos

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Doublet of Angel.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Zeus and Hera, and a goddess of the Underworld.


nomism

From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”) + -ism.

(theology) The following of religious laws or commandments as the chief aspect of religiousness.

nomismi

idea of the chief aspect of religiousness


Agdistis

(Greek mythology) A hermaphroditic being, associated with the worship of Cybele or Rhea


grand prior

The chief of a group of priors, at a large religious house with more than one; also specifically, the commander of a priory of the Knights of St John.


khalat

(historical, Judaism) A long, close-fitting coat with shawl collars and pockets, worn by Ashkenazi Jewish men in Eastern Europe until the early 20th century


Abrahamism

en-noun

Abrahamism (usually uncountable, plural Abrahamisms)

Abrahamic henotheism: the Abrahamic religions, sects, or denominations, considered collectively.


protopope

From Ancient Greek πρωτόπαπας (prōtópapas); see proto- + pope.

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Byzantine Catholicism) A protopresbyter


heliotheism

Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism.

1905, Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:

(theology) Worship of the Sun; belief that the Sun is a god.


lulav

(Judaism) A festive bouquet of willow, myrtle and a closed date palm frond, used in Jewish ritual on Sukkot.


theologoumenon

Ancient Greek, θεολογούμενον (theologoúmenon, “that which is said about God”), neuter present passive participle of θεολογέω (theologéō, “to speak about God”).

A theological statement which is of individual opinion and not doctrine.


ubiquitary

To conclude, either [Thomas] Aquinas is falſe, or the Papiſts Vbiquitaries.

1614, Jos[eph] Hall, “No Peace with Rome. […]. Section 18. Concerning the Multi-presence of Christs Body..”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 877:


God wink

From God + wink; coined by SQuire Rushnell, author of a series of eleven books that include the phrase "When God winks" or "Godwink" in the title.

Scene 85=JANE (Kathie Lee Gifford) Sometimes, God doesn’t speak to us in a voice we can hear. Sometimes-he winks.

When we carry ourselves as far as we can and feel we can go no further, that's when we should be on the lookout for a God Wink. It's coming.

2002, SQuire D. Rushnell (sic), When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life, →ISBN:

In its most vulgarized and solipsistic state, epiphany is what currently is marketed as a God wink. Here the believer is encouraged to take some coincidence, like winning the lottery or recovering from sickness, as evidence of a higher power at work.

2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God, →ISBN, page 105:

A giant hand? That's the kind of stuff that makes people of faith smile — maybe a God wink? How fun.

2009, Ed Gungor, What Bothers Me Most About Christianity, →ISBN, page 117:

Still, at the time, I was dearly in need of a God-wink or two. And, as so often happens, I had to wait for them.

2011, Stephen G. Post, The Hidden Gifts of Helping, →ISBN:

An event or personal experience, often identified as coincidence, so astonishing that it is seen as a sign of divine intervention, especially when perceived as the answer to a prayer.


Adad

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒅎 (Adad).

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Adad was often depicted in human form, standing on a bull and wearing a horned headdress and a tiered skirt decorated with stars.

1998, Tamra Andrews, Dictionary of Nature Myths, Oxford, published 2000, page 4:

The beauty of the sun god, Shamash, shone in his face, and the courage of the storm god, Adad, was in his blood.

2003, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, Cape Town, published 2006, page 326:

The god of storms in Mesopotamian mythology.


shekinah

From Hebrew שְׁכִינָה (sh'chiná, literally “act of dwelling”).

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Some said that the Shekinah, who dwelt with his people on earth, still lived on the Temple Mount, even though the Temple was in ruins.

1993, Karen Armstrong, A History of God, Vintage, published 1999, page 90:

(Christianity) A visible or otherwise perceptible manifestation of the presence of God


Encratite

Latin Encratitae (plural) from Ancient Greek ἐγκρατής (enkratḗs, “self-disciplined”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κρᾰ́τος (krátos, “strength”).

(historical) One of an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat.


devata

(Hinduism) A kind of good spirit, similar to a guardian angel or a lesser deity.


renay

en-verb

renay (third-person singular simple present renays, present participle renaying, simple past and past participle renayed)

renays (present singular third-person)
renaying (participle present)
renayed (participle past)
renayed (past)

From Middle English reneye, from Old French reneier, French renier, renier, from Latin re- (“re-”) + negare (“to deny”). See renegade. Doublet of renege.

[…] Mammolukes and Geniſaries about yͤ Turk and Sowdã [Sowdan, i.e., Sudan], haue vſed to chriſten their children of purpoſe, that by the renayĩg [renaying] of their fayth, after, they might be made Mammolukes or Geniſaries, as theyr fathers were, and may be had the more in eſtimacion & fauour about the greate Turke, […]

1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter 15. That Princes be Boundẽ [Bounden] to Punish Heretykes, and that Fayre Handelyng Helpeth Litle with Many of Them.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book IV, page 279, column 2:

(obsolete, transitive) To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.


Minoress

From Medieval Latin minorissa, from Latin minor (“little, lesser”) + -issa (“-ess”), under influence from Norman frere-menouresse and Middle French sereur meneuresse (“lesser sister”), from menour (“minor”) + -esse (“-ess”), after the model of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“Lesser Brothers”), chosen by St. Francis to inculcate humility in the order's members. Equivalent to minor + -ess. Doublet of minoress and Sister Minor.

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Also I. bequethe to the Religiouse Wommen the Menouresses dwellyngge witħoute algate of london̄, C. s. to be departed amonge [hem] by euene porcion̄, for to synge and rede and to praye diuine seruice for my lordes soule Sir Thomas West, and myn, and for alle christene soules, and for the estates of Thomas my sone, and Iohane his wyf, and for her children.

1395, Alice West, last will and testement, p. 3

These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare, and called Minoresses.

1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, page 755:

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


in petto

Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”).

In future you will have the right to dress in red — indeed, you are already cardinal in petto, and you will be proclaimed at the next conclave.

1845, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, “Metternich”, in The Living Age:

(Roman Catholicism) Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced.


Murugan

A Hindu deity, especially popular among Tamils, worshipped in areas of South India.


laxist

(chiefly theology) Someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.


laxist

en-adj

laxist (comparative more laxist, superlative most laxist)

more laxist (comparative)
most laxist (superlative)

The Jesuits, it was charged, championed a laxist theology which encouraged rather than deterred sin [...].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 248:

(chiefly theology) Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.


Nethinim

From Hebrew נָתִינ (natín, “given; granted; a slave of the temple”).

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(historical, Judaism) A servant of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.


Bon

An indigenous Tibetan religion, in many ways akin to Tibetan Buddhism.


apostolic succession

en-noun

apostolic succession (countable and uncountable, plural apostolic successions)

(Christianity) The unbroken chain of consecrations by laying on of hands from the Apostles of Jesus Christ to the bishops, and from to bishop to bishop through the ages.


Faunus

(Roman mythology) Horned god of the forest, plains and fields; Greek counterpart: Pan.


Brahmoism

A religious movement of Bengal in the late 18th century.


priorate

From Latin prioratus; compare French priorat; or prior + -ate.

bishop there during Godfrey's priorate

1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:

The dignity, office, or government of a prior.


Bhagavata Purana

From Sanskrit भागवत (bhāgavata) + पुराण (purāṇá, “stories of ancient times told in a new manner”).

One of the Hindu Puranas, with its primary focus on the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna.


Apostles' Creed

(Christianity) A statement of Christian belief, traditionally ascribed to the twelve Apostles of Jesus.


stave church

A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.


Ramayana

Transliteration of Sanskrit रामायण (rāmāyaṇa). Doublet of Ramin.

translit

(Hinduism, Jainism, mythology) An ancient Sanskrit epic of Indian mythology about the legendary king Rāma.


Zionize

en-verb

Zionize (third-person singular simple present Zionizes, present participle Zionizing, simple past and past participle Zionized)

Zionizes (present singular third-person)
Zionizing (participle present)
Zionized (participle past)
Zionized (past)

(sometimes derogatory) to make (something) Zionist or more Zionist


Antichristic

en-adj

Antichristic (comparative more Antichristic, superlative most Antichristic)

more Antichristic (comparative)
most Antichristic (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Antichrist.


antimissionary

antimissionary (comparative more antimissionary, superlative most antimissionary)

more antimissionary (comparative)
most antimissionary (superlative)

the antimissionary riots in China

(religion) Opposing religious missionaries.


Campbellism

(religion, historical) The Restoration Movement.


Octapla

From Late Latin Octapla, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

A Biblical octapla: an edition of the Bible in eight parallel versions or languages.


sciniph

From Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (skníps, “gnat, small fly(, flea?)”), plural σκνῖφες (sknîphes) or σκνῖπες (sknîpes).

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And they did ſo. And Aaron ſtreched fotth his hand, holding the rodde: and he ſtroke the duſt of the earth, and there were made ſciniphes on men and on beaſtes: al the duſt of the earth was turned into ſciniphes through the whole Land of Ægypt.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 8:17, page 178:

The sciniphs and flies are common in warm, and the sciniphs especially in marshy countries.

1885, George R. Northgraves, Mistakes of Modern Infidels; or Evidences of Christianity […], page 205:

But it is worth noting that three of the plagues—blast, frost and fire—which he mentioned here do not appear at all in Exodus. […] In fact, in place of these three, there are recounted three others, sciniphs, boils, and darkness.

1991 [c. 540], Cassiodorus, translated by P. G. Walsh, Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, volume 2, →ISBN, page 267:

(archaic, biblical) A kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like.


Benzaiten

Borrowed from Japanese 弁才天 (Benzaiten) 弁財天 (Benzaiten).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) (Also known as "Benten-sama") The Hindu goddess, Saraswati, of knowledge, art and beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.

the fat and happy god of abundance and good health

commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings

masks on the walls of small retail shops


heathenry

en-noun

heathenry (usually uncountable, plural heathenries)

Asatru is one of the most popular types of heathenry.

2019, Theodoric Dukka, A Heathen's Guide Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 7:

Alternative letter-case form of Heathenry (“Germanic (neo)paganism”)


Astraeus

Ancient Greek Ἀστραῖος (Astraîos), in turn from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).

(Greek mythology) The Greek god of the dusk. Husband of Eos (goddess of the dawn), and father of the four Anemoi ("Winds"), and the five Astra Planeta ("Wandering Stars/Planets").


Ibrahimic

en-adj

Ibrahimic (comparative more Ibrahimic, superlative most Ibrahimic)

more Ibrahimic (comparative)
most Ibrahimic (superlative)


Fukurokuju

Borrowed from Japanese 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju), from Middle Chinese 福 (pjuwk, “fortune”) + 祿 (luwk, “blessings”) + 壽 (dzyuwX/dzyuwH, “longevity”).

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(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese name for the Chinese god Xuanwu, one of the seven gods of good fortune: the god of happiness, wealth, and longevity.

Ebisu

恵比須; 恵比寿, 夷 or 戎


mynchen

From Middle English mynchen, from Old English mynecen, from munec (“monk”). See monk.

Another of these canons orders that the cells of mynchens (sanctimonialium domicilia) were not to be places of gossip, feasting, and drinking, but rather of reading and psalm-singing, than of weaving or sewing fine clothes.

1899, William Hunt, A History of the English Church: Hunt, W. The English church from its foundation to the Norman conquest (597-1066):