in partibus infidelium

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin in partibus īnfidēlium (literally “in the regions of the infidels”), so named because such bishops were assigned sees corresponding to territories that had passed under the control of other religions, and so did not imply a duty of residence or diocesan responsibilities.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism, historical, postpositive) Of a bishop or see: merely titular, without regular jurisdiction, and serving to assist some other bishop or to act as delegates of the pope where no hierarchy had yet been established.


Budai

Derived from Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài, “cloth sack”).

der+

(Buddhism) A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.


Blessed Virgin

Calque of Latin Beato Virgo and its descendants in other languages.

(Christianity) Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”), particularly in Catholic contexts.


Star of the Sea

From Middle English sterre of þe see, a calque of Latin Stella Maris (“Polaris, the North Star; Mary, mother of Jesus”) and direct translation from the Latin and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Morning Star.

der

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.

Tengernek Csillaga

Mary, Mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Virgin Mary


Queen of Heaven

Calque of Latin Regina Caeli and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Our Lady.

(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as queen of Heaven.

বেহেশ্তের রাণী

Mary, mother of Jesus, as queen of Heaven — see also Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Our Lady of Sorrows


king of kings

Attested in Middle English as king of kinges. An ancient formula which seems to have originated in a Semitic language of the Ancient Near East; see Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠𐭭 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāhān-šāh, “king of kings”) for more.

noncog

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 17:14:

The title of an individual king who has other kings as subjects; in particular:


bible society

(Christianity) an organisation which promotes, distributes and, on occasion, translates the Holy Bible.


runelore

In fact so serious a discrepancy could only arise in the infancy of this little-studied Old-Northern Rune-lore, when the material was so comparatively slender and the few monuments gave scarcely any acknowledged formulas.

1884, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, London: Williams and Norgate, page 213:

Runelore is dominated by the figure of Ódhinn. It is the path exemplified by him that the runester seeks to travel.

1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 175:

(fantasy, paganism) The study of runes, typically for magical or religious purposes.


heaven of heavens

(Christianity) The highest of the heavens, the abode and seat of God.


cowboy church

(US) A local Christian church characterized heavily by Western culture.


orarion

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

A deacon's stole in the Eastern Orthodox Church.


shaggy God story

en-noun

shaggy God story (plural shaggy God stories)

A pun on shaggy dog story, incorporating God. Coined by writer and critic Brian W. Aldiss in a pseudonymous column in the October 1965 issue of New Worlds.

A typical shaggy God story might feature a pair of astronauts landing on a lush and virgin world; the story ends with their names being revealed as Adam and Eve.

(science fiction) A style of science fiction story that attempts to explain biblical concepts with science fiction tropes.


Shesha

(Hinduism) One of the primal beings of creation, a many-headed snake who holds all of the planets of the universe on his hoods and constantly sings the glories of Vishnu.


particular church

particular church (plural particular churches)

(Catholicism) An ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent) as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.


Tudigong

A tutelary deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it in Chinese folk religion.


Hislam

Eighteen
Islam, Not “Hislam”
On Muslim Feminists
Women are the twin halves of men. God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, and aunts. The rights of women are sacred. [...]

2014, Ranya Idliby, Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America, →ISBN, page 177:

2017, Susan Carland, Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism, →ISBN:

(derogatory, uncommon) Islam which reinforces masculinist attitudes or ideas or downplays women's issues.


manqabat

From Hindustani منقبت / मनक़बत (manaqbat).

(Sufism) A Sufi devotional poem in praise of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad, or of any Sufi saint.


Charlie Brown's Christmas tree

Charlie Brown's Christmas tree (plural Charlie Brown's Christmas trees)

Charlie Brown's Christmas trees (plural)

Oh yes, 'twas the night before Christmas, / and it was a horrible site to see. / Things were looking sadder than Charlie Brown's / Christmas tree. / But hark! There was hope, and all was not lost.

2002, Wendell J. Powell I, “’Twas the Nite before Christmas – 1997”, in 12 Spiritual Voices, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 23:

When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now that I have won, he will not laugh. He will instead quietly pay for a very expensive dinner in a restaurant with no prices on the menu … and I will laugh. Though the story of the bet is true, beyond that has been Rick's earnest encouragement for me to move this book forward.

2009, Steven L. Layne, “Acknowledgments”, in Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers, Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, pages xv–xvi:

Walking around the dwarfed trees with bare spots throughout their branches, I commented that they reminded me of Charlie Brown's Christmas trees.

2017, Marilyn Peake, chapter 14, in Blood and Ashes: A Paranormal Romance Novel, [s.n.]: Marilyn Peake:

Charlie Brown tree
Charlie Brown tree#English


Charlie Brown Christmas tree

Charlie Brown Christmas tree (plural Charlie Brown Christmas trees)

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My friends have wives that I'd be happy to take home to Mom, but I've only met the Charlie Brown Christmas trees of the dating world.

1999, Peter Bartula, “Well Then, Where the Hell is She?: Where to Look for the Perfect Woman”, in The Complete Male Handbook for Sex, Dating, and Other Trivial Stuff, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:

We had a little tree in our den area with a few little lights on it. It reminded me of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree a little bit and I kind of felt sorry for us because I realized we were poor by society's standards.

2009 July 6, Doneareum S. Winston, “Born into the Struggle”, in Panning for Gold, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24:

[H]e spotted an abandoned tree near a dumpster at the back of the lot. It was a scrawny little thing, not much to look at. But it was a tree—and apparently it was free. Bob took it home to their little apartment, and Jayne nearly smothered the little tree in blinking lights and ornaments and garlands and tinsel. The baby was spellbound by the little Charlie Brown Christmas tree—and thus began a Ritter tradition.

2010, Delilah Scott, Emma Troy, “’Tis Better to Give … Or Why Beauty is in the Eye of the Gift Giver”, in The Upside-down Christmas Tree and Other Bizarre Yuletide Tales, Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 115:

It was a humble little plant, fragile, a fledgling shrub with a few sprays of leaves—a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

2014, Lev Grossman, The Magician’s Land (The Magicians Trilogy; 3), New York, N.Y.: Plume, published 2015, →ISBN, page 389:


Adventism

The Adventist Christian movement founded by William Miller in 19th-century United States.


original righteousness

(Christianity) The condition of man before the Fall as made in the image of God.


holy day of obligation

holy day of obligation (plural holy days of obligation)

(Catholicism) A feast day on which the faithful are expected to attend Mass.


Fiddler's Green

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7,
Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and camaraderie, before continuing his journey. Soldiers of no other service may stop at Fiddler's Green, they must continue to march.

(US, military) A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife.


white friar

Named from the white mantles that they wore over brown habits.

A member of the religious order of the Carmelites.


Lord's Table

(Christianity) The table at which the Lord's Supper is held, or on which the elements are laid.


crescentade

From crescent, a symbol of Islam; by analogy with crusade.


Remonstrant

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

(Protestantism, historical) A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.


KINGAFAP

(Christianity) Abbreviation of king, god, almighty, father, protector: a set of terms often used to refer to God in hymns.


processionism

(Christianity) A theological subject of research, within Christian pneumatology, dealing with the procession of the Holy Spirit.


Capernaite

From Capernaum + -ite, after the town in Galilee; a reference to John, vi. 52 in the Bible.

(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) A believer in transubstantiation.


monopatrism

From Greek μόνος (only one) + Greek πατήρ (father), 'of the father only' or 'from the father only'.

(Christianity) In Christian theology, teachings that hold the Father as a singular source of a particular relation, for example: notion that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father only, as from the singular source of eternal procession.


murabaha

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَابَحَة (murābaḥa)

(Islamic finance) A financing arrangement where a bank or other party buys an item and sells it on at an agreed price including profit, typically in instalments.


black clergy

In Russia, the regular or monastic clergy, as distinct from the secular or parochial.


Toci

The ſame night thee arriued, by order of the murtherer whom they worſhipped, they killed her cruelly; and hauing flayed her artificially asa they could doe, they did clothe a young man with her skin, and thereupon her apparell, placing him neere their Idoll, dedicating him for a Goddeſſe and the mother of their god, and euer after did worſhip it, making an Idoll which they called Toccy, which is to ſay, our grand mother.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1004:


phelonion

phelonion (plural phelonions or phelonia)

From Ancient Greek φαιλόνιον (phailónion).

(Christianity) A liturgical vestment worn by a priest of the Eastern Christian tradition, equivalent to the chasuble of the Western tradition.


rhipidion

From Ancient Greek ῥιπίς (rhipís, “fan”).

(Christianity) In the Greek Church, the eucharistic fan or flabellum.


se-baptist

(Christianity) A person who carries out his or her own baptism.


Latin Church

(Catholicism) One of the 24 particular churches (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church which uses the Latin liturgical rites.


ergism

Faith without works is dogma-righteousness, orthodoxism. Works without the foundation of faith are work-righteousness, ergism.

1867, Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures:

Both enthusiasm and “ergism" are sheer illusion. Neither one is found in pure Christianity.

1900, The American Journal of Theology - Volume 4, Issue 1, page 146:

The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.

2015, Søren Kierkegaard, Bruce H. Kirmmse, K. Brian Söderquist, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE-KK, →ISBN:

(theology) The belief that good works are necessary for salvation.


lychnic

Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church

(Christianity) Part of the vespers of the Greek Orthodox Church on the occasion of a vigil.


Veadar

From Hebrew וְאֲדָר (v-Adár, literally “and Adar”).

der

(Judaism) The month of Adar when it occurs in a leap year, preceded by a 30-day intercalary month (which is then itself called Adar).


Valetudo

(Roman mythology) Roman goddess of health and hygiene (equivalent to the Greek Hygieia), great-granddaughter of Jupiter.


regionary

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)


Docetae

(Christianity, historical) The followers of the Christian heresy of docetism.


holy fire

From Middle English holi fir, haliȝ fir, equivalent to holy + fire.

But I now leave this great and wonderful call of Moses, to the sacred historian, whose pen is dipped in holy fire, and whose words are the words of God.

1787, J. Yonge, Practical and explanatory Commentary on the Holy Bible, page 44:

When we yield to Him, this holy fire will burn away self and give us a holy, burning passion for the lost.

2007, T. L. Lowery, Walking in the Supernatural:

As with Moses, Holy Fire precedes the commission for duty. It is The Eternal Fire of Almighty God. It consumes all but is never burned out. “Our God is a consuming fire” (see Hebrews 12:29). Don't you want to be a part of this kind of uprising? It is radical. It is energized by the Holy Fire and Heat of God. It will one day fill the whole wide world!

2012, Joanne Carraway, Windows into the Third Heaven:

(religious, Christianity) Ardent devotion or enthusiasm for God or Christian ideals; Christian fervour


reserved case

(Christianity) A sin that can only be absolved by the pope or his legate etc.


Peculiar People

In reference to any of several places in the Bible where "a peculiar people", a people set apart from others, is mentioned, such as Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Peter 2:9, and Titus 2:14: for example, "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Deuteronomy 14:2).

(Christianity) Any of several Christian sects who have used this biblical description as a self-appellation, as:

(historical) A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.


nafs

(Islam) The self; the psyche, ego, or soul.


Quicunque

From Latin quīcunque (“whosoever”), which is its first word.


will-worship

(Christianity) Worship that is self-invented; superstitious observance without divine authority.


subordinationism

(Christianity, theology) A doctrine regarding the Trinity, holding that the Son and possibly the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father.


subordinationist

(Christianity, theology) A believer in subordinationism.


Eisodia

From Ancient Greek εἴσοδος (eísodos, “entrance”).

bor

(Christianity) The entrance of the Virgin Mary to the Temple.


titular bishop

A Roman Catholic bishop without a diocese, taking his title from a place where there is no longer a bishop's see.


All-Father

From all + father. The sense used to refer to Odin was a calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

(Germanic paganism, Norse mythology) Odin.


All-Father

Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves.

1891, Philip Hankinson Newnham, The All-father: Sermons Preached in a Village Church, page 27:

At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers.

1913, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, page 737:

The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.

2010, Harold W. Montzka, The Separation of Heaven and Earth:

A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.


Breeches Bible

(Christianity) A version of the Geneva Bible, first published in 1579, that uses the word "breeches" in Genesis chapter 3 verse 7.


pitris

(Hinduism) The spirits of departed ancestors, venerated in Hindu culture.


Protevangelium

(theology) God's statement to the Serpent in the Garden of Eden about how the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head.


double feast

Uncertain; possibly because either the antiphon or the matins took place twice on such days.

(Christianity) Any of certain feast days ranked above simples and semidoubles.


adoptianist

(Christianity) Alternative form of adoptionist


panagiarion

(Christianity) A paten on which the loaf is placed, used in the 'elevation of the Panagia'.


panagia

(Christianity) An ornament worn hanging on the breast by Russian bishops.


Panagia

From Ancient Greek Παναγία (Panagía, “All-Holy One”), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + άγια (ágia, “holy”).

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly in Greek contexts.


Monotessaron

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) (though the meaning of Modern Greek μονός (monós) fits slightly better) + τεσσάρων (tessárōn, “out of four”). Attested in Latin since 1552.

(Christianity) A harmony of the four Gospels.


irenicism

en-noun

irenicism (usually uncountable, plural irenicisms)

A striking feature of this volume is the pronounced irenicism of the Americans, Lindbeck of Yale and Quanbeck of the Luther Theological Seminary at St. Paul, in contrast to the unsparingly critical approach of the Europeans.

1965, New Catholic World, volume 202, page 117:

The elector Palatine, as self-appointed Calvinist leader, promoted his own, narrow form of irenicism to remain within the Peace by finding common ground with Lutherans.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 122:

(theology, chiefly Christianity) Behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions; irenical theology; conciliation.


Ethiopian cross

Ethiopian cross (plural Ethiopian crosses)

An elaborate, stylized version of the Christian cross symbol that is unique to Ethiopia and Eritrea.


Isodicon

From Ancient Greek εἰσοδικόν (eisodikón, “an entrance”).

der

(Christianity) In the Greek Orthodox Church, a troparion or short anthem sung while the Gospel is being carried through the church.


Tlazolteotl

(mythology) An Aztec goddess of vice, filth etc. and of steam baths and purification.


pectoral theology

In reference to Neander's Latin phrase "pectus est quod facit theologum" ("the heart makes the theologian").

(Christianity, dated) The theology of those Christians who make much of experience and emotion as guides to a knowledge of divine truth.


Holy Mary

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


effectual calling

He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]

1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, […], Glasgow: […] Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart, […], →OCLC, page 48:

(theology) The invitation to come to Christ which the elect receive.


votive mass

(Christianity) A special mass over and above those ordinarily said for the day, for some particular grace or purpose, and provided by some individual.


solemn mass

(Christianity) A mass resembling a High Mass, but without some of its special ceremonies.


Marprelatist

(historical, Christianity) An opponent of the established church in the Marprelate Controversy.


archeparchial

From archeparch + -ial or archeparchy + -al.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to an archeparchy


Proverbs woman

(Christianity) A woman who meets the ideal of womanhood described in Proverbs 31; a virtuous woman according to Christian standards


wolfaboo

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Undaunted, Bridges has continued telling his story, thanking “all of you wolf loving fools” for gaining him new followers on his Wolf Control website. “I only had to ban 150 or so wolfaboos,” he crowed. “You people are your own worst enemies ... please, please, keep it up.”

2014 November 8, Betsy Marston, “Heard around the west”, in Lewiston News-Argus, volume 132, number 127, page 4:

Last year I came across a forum where wolfaboos believed that they were "special snowflakes" who where blessed with the ability to physically shape shift into wolves.

2018, Scary Garry SG1, 99, unnumbered page

Frustration with fluff and wolfaboos is understandable: at stake in Otherkin representation is not merely an opinion about how the community should be characterized, but the very idea that Otherkin identification is a viable way to exist in the world.

2019, Devin Proctor, "On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space", dissertation submitted to George Washington University, page 243

(Internet slang, derogatory) Someone who is obsessed with wolves and identifies with them, especially a furry or otherkin.


cooperating grace

(theology) The Roman Catholic, Arminian and Socinian doctrine that the human will cooperates with the divine in the matter of saving grace.


baptism of desire

(Christianity) The grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it.

baptême de désir

the grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it


un-Christian

en-adj

un-Christian (comparative more un-Christian, superlative most un-Christian)

more un-Christian (comparative)
most un-Christian (superlative)


Sanamahism

A religion, philosophy and culture native to Manipur, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures.


Christmasish

Christmasish (comparative more Christmasish, superlative most Christmasish)

more Christmasish (comparative)
most Christmasish (superlative)


Triodion

From Ancient Greek Τριῴδιον (Triṓidion).

(Christianity) The liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church, containing the propers for the fasting period preceding Easter and for the weeks leading up to the fast.


psychostasia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψυχοστασία (psukhostasía, “weighing of lives”).

bor

(religion) The weighing of souls, as a form of judgment of people's worth.


Neo-Confucianism

A Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism which originated in the Tang dynasty and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties.


Revised Standard Version

the Revised Standard Version (canonical)

Since the Revised Standard Version only claims to be a revision of the American Standard Version the sources and background of which are quite fully discussed under the heading of "Revisions" in a previous chapter it is not further discussed here.

1996, Elton Jones, Which Bible?, page 40:

(biblical, Christianity) An English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, based on the earlier American Standard Version.


Assumption

The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.

holy day of obligation
holy day of obligation

A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.


grounation

(Rastafari) A Rastafarian meeting for the discussion of religious, social, and political topics.


hedge parson

(Christianity, historical) A poor and generally illiterate parson.


documentary hypothesis

Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded.

1842, The Princeton Review, volume 14, page 205:

(theology) The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.

oorkondenhypothese

literary-critical theory about the Penteteuch


hedge priest

From hedge (“third-rate”) + priest. To imply such a priest "plying one's trade under a hedge." Compare hedge alehouse, hedge whore.

The Pedant, the Bragart, the Hedge-Prieſt, the Foole, and the Boy. / Abate throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe, / Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 545–547:

HEDGEPRIEST, an illiterate unbenificed curate, a patrico.

[1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:

The yeomen separated the incensed priests, who continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin, which the Prior delivered the more fluently, and the Hermit with the greater vehemence. The Prior at length recollected himself sufficiently to be aware that he was compromising his dignity, by squabbling with such a hedge-priest as the Outlaw’s chaplain, and being joined by his attendants, rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter.

1819, Walter Scott, chapter 33, in Ivanhoe: A Romance:

(Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest.


keep one's chapels

en-verb

keep one's chapels (third-person singular simple present keeps one's chapels, present participle keeping one's chapels, simple past and past participle kept one's chapels)

keeps one's chapels (present singular third-person)
keeping one's chapels (participle present)
kept one's chapels (participle past)
kept one's chapels (past)

(religion, dated) To attend the requisite number of church services.


neshama

From Hebrew נְשָׁמָה (n'shamá, “spirit”).

(Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to intellect and the awareness of God.


Buddahood

But yet Gautama did all this, and this was the means he adopted to attain Buddahood.

1878, Buddhism and Christianity Face to Face, page 62:

Unless he enters Buddahood, he will fall into the hells and suffer.

1986, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra, The Konjaku Tales: From a Medieval Japanese Collection. Indian section:

Whatever the contingent and occasional purpose of a ritual, its primary concern is always the attainment of Buddahood in the body by an immediate perception of the unobstructed interpenetration of all dharmas.

1987, Religious Traditions - Volume 10, page 21:

The Buddhist who bows before an image of the Buddha understands himself not as honoring an individual, but expressing his respect for Buddahood, a potentiality of all humans (or in some cases all beings) and devoting himself to the cultivaton of his own "enlightenment."

1997, Gary David Comstock, Susan E. Henking, Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, →ISBN, page 275:

The eternity and omnipresence of the True Nature is equivalent to the omnipresence of the Mean; Buddahood or the dharma-nature is, crypto-pantheistically, present everywhere and in everything.

2000, Brook Ziporyn, Evil And/or/as the Good, →ISBN:

(Buddhism) The state of being a buddha, enlightenment or nirvana.


eternal now

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those—few at any moment on the earth—who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not," but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

1879, George MacDonald, chapter 2, in Sir Gibbie:

We never go beyond the present. […] Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.

1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107:

Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course. […] Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal Now: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived.

2010 November 9, Simon Schama, “My vision for history in schools”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

Brynner used photography as a way to stay in love with his day job, filling hours spent waiting on film sets by strolling among friends and crew with a Leica slung around his neck. His images reveal a talent for accruing images of subjects utterly at ease in his presence and rare treasures indeed when seen alongside stilted studio publicity visuals. […] These are some of the most noted names of the era and—whether in stylish monochrome or courtesy of Kodachrome’s pinks and yellows—they appear rapt and relaxed, exhilarated to be living their kind of life in a sun-drenched, eternal now.

2012 January 14, Lucy Davies, “Yul Brynner: a photographic journey”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

He quoted a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush, Michael Gerson, about Mr. Trump: “He lives in the eternal now—no history, no consequences.”

2018 October 18, Maggie Haberman, “A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts”, in New York Times (USA), retrieved 2019-01-02:

(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

[Heidegger] is trying to avoid any conception of time that begins with a distinction between time and eternity. On this understanding of time, classically expressed in Augustine's Confessions, temporality is derived from a higher non-temporal state of eternity, which is co-extensive with the infinite and eternal now of God.

2009 July 27, Simon Critchley, “Heidegger's Being and Time, part 8: Temporality”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

(religion, philosophy) The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.


sedes impedita

(Christianity) A papal or episcopal see when there is a partial cessation by the incumbent of his episcopal duties.


Passion Week

Analarin, a priest, spoke of boxwood rattles, which were used to announce the clergy from the ninth century. The crécelle, or 'cressel', was once used in Roman Catholic churches during Passion Week instead of a bell.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 36:

(Christianity) The week beginning on Passion Sunday.


Dellingr

Borrowed from Old Norse Dellingr, formally as if from Proto-Germanic *Dallingaz, perhaps "shining one", related to Old English deal (“proud, bright”) and possibly the second element of Old Norse Heimdallr and Mardǫll. Another proposed etymology is Proto-Germanic *Dagilingaz (“dayspring”), from *dagaz (“day”);

(Norse mythology) a figure in Norse mythology, the father of Dagr (the Day)


Antiochianism

(Christianity, historical) A school of theology in the 4th and 5th centuries which spread over the whole Graeco-Syrian Church, and was a revolt against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture favoured by the Alexandrian school.


litany desk

(Christianity) In the English Church, a movable desk at which a minister kneels, facing the altar, while he recites the litany.


alagba

The hereditary chief of the Egun masqueraders in Yoruba culture.


Tertullianism

(historical, Christianity) The beliefs of the Tertullianists.


wave loaf

(Judaism, historical) A loaf for a wave offering.


wave offering

(Judaism, historical) An ancient Jewish custom of moving the hands in succession towards the four points of the compass in presenting certain offerings; opposed to the heave offering, in which the hands were only lifted up and lowered.


proseuche

From Ancient Greek προσευχή (proseukhḗ). According to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible:
: prayer (worship); by implication, an oratory (chapel):—X pray earnestly, prayer.

On behalf of king Ptolemy and queen Berenice his sister and wife and their children, the Jews (dedicated) the proseuche.

246–221 BCE, Plaque, dedication of a Schedian proseuche:

On behalf of king Ptolemy, son of Ptolemy, and queen Berenice his wife and sister and their children, the Jews in Crocodilopolis (dedicated) the proseuche .....

246–221 BCE, Stele, dedication of an Arsinoëan-Crocodilopolitan proseuche:

(religion) A place of prayer; among the Jews, one that was not a synagogue, or the temple, usually roofless.


juniorate

(religion) A secondary school for young people planning to enter religious life.


secular arm

en-noun

secular arm (plural (rare) secular arms)

/ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/

/ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/

From Late Middle English seculer arm, seculer arme (“civil authority or power”), a calque of Medieval Latin bracchium saeculāre (“(figurative) civil or lay power”), from Latin bracchium (“arm”) + saeculāre (neuter singular form of saeculāris (“profane, temporal, worldly”)).

calque

The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

Then there's no more to be done, but to deliuer them vp to the ſecular arme of the olde vvife, and do not demaund the reaſon, for that vvere neuer to make an end.

1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Of the Pleasant and Curious Search Made by the Curate and the Barber, of Don-Quixotes Library”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 1, page 44:

The firſt Inſtance of the Imploying the Secular Arm againſt Hereticks, that vvas ſet on by any of the Orthodox, vvas under the Reign of that bloody Tyrant [Magnus] Maximus, and it vvas managed by tvvo ſuch ſcandalous Biſhops, that their ill Lives is no ſmall Prejudice againſt every thing that vvas carried on by ſuch Inſtruments.

1687, Gilbert Burnet, “The Translators Preface”, in L[ucius] C[aecilius] F[irmianus] Lactantius, translated by Gilbert Burnet, A Relation of the Death of the Primitive Persecutors. […], Amsterdam: […] J[ohn] S[tarkey], →OCLC, pages 29–30:

The Secular Arm is the Lay or Temporal Authority of a ſecular Judge; to vvhich Recourſe is had for the Execution of the Sentences paſs'd by Eccleſiaſtical Judges. […] The Church ſheds no Blood: Even the Inquiſition, after they have found the Perſon guilty, ſurrenders him to the ſecular Arm.

1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Arm”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–H), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 138, column 1:

And vvhether the former [the corrupted clergy] did not abuſe the Povver of the Magiſtracy, in bringing over the Secular Arms for the Support of their VVickedneſs, excluding the vvhole Community from inſpecting and deciding the Matter?

1744, “To the Reader”, in Certain Queries, with Their Respective Answers; by Way of Introduction to the Reverend Mr. Godfrey Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and Hereticks. […], London: […] G. Smith, […]; and sold by Mrs. Cooper, […]; likewise, by Mr. Wilcox, […]; and Mr. Hodges, […], →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 5:

[W]e not only exhort you to expiate by a penitence proportionate to the enormity of such a crime, but also order you to quit the territories of the church vvithin three days, under pain of being given up to the secular arms, and the rigour of the flames.

1792 February 8, [François] Blanchet, translated by [anonymous], “The Dean of Badajoz, a Tale”, in James Anderson, editor, The Bee, or, Literary Weekly Intelligencer, […], volume VII, Edinburgh: […] [Mundell and Son] for the editor, →OCLC, page 209:

These doctrines are false; […] Yet all who reject them are by the Council of Trent and the Papal Church pronounced accursed heretics and excommunicated, and therefore to be given over to the secular arm, as we have just seen that millions have been, to be destroyed or burned; […]

1812 March 9 (date written), Gideon Ouseley, “A Short View of the Apostacy^([sic – meaning Apostasy]), and of the Man of Sin, which was to Appear in the Church, Predicted by the Prophet Daniel, and by the Apostles St. Paul, St. Peter, and St. John, as Recorded in the Holy Scripture”, in A Short Defence of the Old Religion, against Certain Novelties, Recommended to the People of Ireland, Dublin: […] J. O. Bonsall, […], published 1821, →OCLC, page 239:

And as many of this devoted people as they could get into their hands, were delivered over to the secular arms; scarcely was there a city or town throughout Piedmont, in which some of these martyrs were not sacrificed by the devouring superstition of the priests dominant.

1830 May 1, “The Waldenses and Albigenses. 3.”, in The Protestant, volume I, number 18, New York, N.Y.: James B. Requa, […], →OCLC, page 137, column 1:

We also understand that when the secular arm has the power it is requirable by the Church to execute those who entertain views opposed to the Papacy; and that the only reason why the Church does not now require it is that the secular arm is not at the Pope's command.

1870 October, “Art. IX.—Quarterly Book-table. [Pamphlets. The Catholic World, July, 1870.]”, in D[aniel] D[enison] Whedon, editor, Methodist Quarterly Review, volume XXII (4th Series; volume LII overall), New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Lanahan […], →OCLC, page 634:

In the Middle Ages, however, sometimes the assistance of the secular arm was sought, especially in trials for heresy or grave immorality when Church officials felt that sterner punishment was deserved than they could administer.

1980, John A[nthony] Hardon, “SECULAR ARM”, in Modern Catholic Dictionary, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 496, column 1:

(Christianity, law, historical) The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.

maallinen valta

lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court


Claim of Right

(religion, historical) The statement, in Scottish constitutional law, of the right of the church to spiritual independence and liberty from the interference of the civil courts in her spiritual functions, adopted by an immense majority of the General Assembly in 1842.


Hinduphobe

A person who hates, dislikes or is prejudiced against Hinduism and Hindus.


Hinduphobic

en-adj

Hinduphobic (comparative more Hinduphobic, superlative most Hinduphobic)

more Hinduphobic (comparative)
most Hinduphobic (superlative)

(India, politics) Opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


crypto-Jew

Ms. Sheinbaum will legislate from buildings in downtown Mexico City near the Palace of the Inquisition, where crypto-Jews—a term used to describe Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity by the Spanish crown in the 15th century but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy—were tortured during the colonial period.

2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times:

A person who, while publicly converting to another religion (such as Christianity or Islam), secretly practices Judaism.


crypto-Judaism

Anusim

cf. Hebrew: אָנוּס (anús); אֲנוּסִים (anusím); אֲנוּסָה (anusá), אֲנוּסוֹת (anusót)


Rodnovery

A borrowing from Russian роднове́рие (rodnovérije) with the suffix -ery, derived from Russian род (rod, “tribe, origin”) + Russian ве́ра (véra, “faith”).

kolovrat

a swastika-like symbol used to worship the gods

volkhv

a Rodnover priest, usually a high priest; a sorcerer in Slavic folklore

zhrets

a Rodnover priest; a Slavic pagan priest


yechidah

From Hebrew יְחִידָה (y'khidá, “unity”).

(Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, that of being one with God.


nefesh

(Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to natural instinct.


ruach

Despite the misuse of the virginal conception to disparage women’s active use of their sexuality, this event actually subverts patriarchy by replacing the usual male participation with ruah, the creative Spirit of God.

2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:

(Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to emotion and morality.


panegyricon

(Christianity) In the Greek Orthodox Church, a collection of sermons for festivals.


New Jerusalem

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:2:

When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(Judaism) Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centred on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.


Heimdall

(Norse mythology) The Norse god who guards the rainbow bridge Bifrost, using his keen eyesight and hearing to watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarok.


Chosen People

(religion) A group having a special status and relationship to God.


Abijah

From Hebrew אביה, name of the king and also several minor biblical characters.

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

(biblical) King of Judah after Rehoboam, the first to begin reign over Judah only; the father of Asa


steeplehouse

In this Yeare (1659) Mary Akehurst, the Wife of Ralph Akehurst, of the Cliff, Neare Lewis, Beeing moved to goe to St Michals' Steeplehouse (soe called), where an Independent priest was speaking, she, for Asking him a question, was by people Haled out, and then sent for her aforesaid Husband, who after shee came home, Did so hunch and Pincht her, that she Could not Lift her armes to her head.

1864, “The Sufferings of the Quakers in Lewes”, in Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 16, page 76:

When we came into the town to bait, the bells rang. I asked what they rang for, and they said for me to preach in the steeplehouse. After some time I felt drawings that way; and as I walked to the steeplehouse, I saw the people were gathered together in the yard. The priest would have had me go into the steeplehouse (this man afterwards became a Friend), but I said, 'nay, it was no matter.'

1865, The “Friend” in His Family, page 230:

When the people went to the steeplehouse, I took my Bible under my arm, and went to Justice Corbet's house to let him see I was going.

1897, Samuel Harris Fox, Edwin Tregelles, The Hat Crusade - Volume 3, page 166:

And so as we travelled along the country I espied a steeplehouse and I asked them what steeplehouse it was, and they said Dunbar, and it struck at my life that I should have a meeting the next day in the steeplehouse yard.


Expectation Week

(Christianity) The period between Ascension Day and Whitsunday, during which the apostles continued praying in expectation of Christ.


proselyte of the gate

en-noun

proselyte of the gate (plural proselytes of the gate)

(religion, historical) A convert who was not compelled to submit to the regulations of the Mosaic law.


vicar-choral

(Christianity) An assistant, whether cleric or lay, at an English cathedral, especially in connection with the music.


vicar-general

(Christianity) An official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop.

(Christianity) In the English Church, an officer assisting the bishop, the chancellor of the diocese.


coredeem

en-verb

coredeem (third-person singular simple present coredeems, present participle coredeeming, simple past and past participle coredeemed)

coredeems (present singular third-person)
coredeeming (participle present)
coredeemed (participle past)
coredeemed (past)


coredemptrix

Mary's involvement in salvation was said to make her coredemptrix along with Christ.

2001, “Mariology”, in Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 736:

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female coredeemer.


JDSN

Initialism of Korean 전도사(傳道師) (jeondosa, “lay leader”) + 님 (nim, honorific suffix).

Through Pyon JDSN, whose love for the young souls is ardent, our youths' souls will be revived.

2003, Manwoo A. Kim, New Morning of the Pasture: Poetic Reflections of a Korean American Pastor, Hermit Kingdom Press, published 2003, page 14:

I think of their ongoing struggles to create innovative ministries all while the first-generation Korean pastor can't figure out why the Jdsn doesn't show up to 6:00 AM morning prayer every day.

2010, Jonathan Tran, "Why Asian-American Christianity is the Future", SANACS Journal (1), page 51

(Korean Protestantism) A title for a lay leader who has not been ordained as a pastor, particularly a youth group leader.


Ma Tovu

From Hebrew מה טבו (or מה טובו), the first two words of the prayer, literally meaning “how good”.

(Judaism) A prayer in Judaism, recited when entering a synagogue.


discipler

I had to keep tabs on who was working with whom, and who had stopped I had to solve personality problems and give out discipline to those who were not doing their job— to both disciplers and trainees.

1979, John C. Souter, How to Grow New Christians, page 8:


Company of Jesus

Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus#English

Synonym of Society of Jesus (“Jesuit order”)


Mid-Lent

(Christianity) Synonym of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.


Lenten fare

(Christianity) Food that is fit to be consumed during Lent (in other words, food that does not contain meat).


regionarius

(Christianity, historical) A Roman Catholic ecclesiastic having jurisdiction over certain districts of Rome.


witchcamp

At my first Reclaiming witchcamp, within two weeks of arriving in San Francisco, my morning class teachers surprised me by opening with a discussion of gifts and commodities.

2015, R Morgain, “Sacred materialism: Things and relations in a US Pagan community”, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology:


Reclaiming Wicca

A branch of Wicca which emphasises Starhawk's teachings, The Spiral Dance and feminism.


Sacred Heart

(Christianity) The physical heart of Christ, adored with special devotion by Roman Catholics since the 18th century.


AEO

en-noun

AEO (countable and uncountable, plural AEOs)

alternative episcopal oversight
alternative episcopal oversight#English

(uncountable, Anglicanism) Initialism of alternative episcopal oversight.


turn or burn

en-verb

turn or burn (third-person singular simple present turns or burns, present participle turning or burning, simple past and past participle turned or burned or turned or burnt)

turns or burns (present singular third-person)
turning or burning (participle present singular third-person)
turned or burned (participle past present singular third-person)
turned or burned (past present singular third-person)
turned or burnt (participle past present singular third-person)
turned or burnt (past present singular third-person)

(Christianity, informal) To accept the teachings of Christianity or be doomed to hell.


daughter of God

en-noun

daughter of God (plural daughters of God)

(Christianity, sometimes capitalised) A woman who is beloved of God; a righteous woman.


sungod

The Vernal Equinox has all over the ancient world, and from the earliest times, been a period of rejoicing and of festivals in honor of the Sungod.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, page 36:

(religion) A personification of the sun worshipped as a god.


arch-heresy

arch-heresy (countable and uncountable, plural arch-heresies)


arch-heretical

en-adj

arch-heretical (comparative more arch-heretical, superlative most arch-heretical)

more arch-heretical (comparative)
most arch-heretical (superlative)

(religion) Highly heretical; being or relating to arch-heresy.


zeroism

Zeroism is distinct from nihilism. It is a true central philosophy because it is neither Absolutism nor nihilism.

1964, Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Summaries of papers; supplement, page 190:

The conception of Emptiness in Taoist Mysticism of China was influenced by the conception of Vedic representation of Sanya (zero) and Buddhist conception of Sinyāta (zeroism) of India.

1984, Prācī-jyoti: Digest of Indological Studies - Volumes 16-17, page 244:

Gandhi set a high ideal, which actually does not attract much interest in The whole idea of "zeroism"--"to be the last in the peace research community.

1986, International peace research newsletter - Volumes 24-27, page 10:

(Buddhism) A belief that the physical world is illusion.


double procession

(theology) The emanation of the Holy Spirit from both Father and Son.


single procession

(theology) The emanation of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone, not the Son.


covenantalism

(theology) An interpretive framework for the Bible, viewing the history (and future) of God's dealings with humankind through the lens of the various covenants described in the Scriptures.


His Eminence

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific style for a cardinal

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorific style for an archbishop


devale

From Sinhalese දේවාලය (dēwālaya), from Sanskrit देवालय (devālaya).

Both the Maligava and the devales are administered by chief temple officials and their deputies, the services during the festival from providing supplies and decorations to participation in the processions are performed by temple tenants who hold temple lands (vihāragam and dēvālagam) in lieu of their rājakāriya (lit. "king's work," in this case temple service).

1972, Hans Dieter Evers, Monks, Priests and Peasants: A Study of Buddhism and Social Structure in Central Ceylon:

Worshippers at the devale would hand over a small offering of betel and incense sticks to the kapurala and tell him their problems.

1992, Piya Tan, Buddhist currents: a brief social analysis of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Siam, →OCLC:


Levitical degree

en-noun

Levitical degree (plural Levitical degrees)

(Christianity) Any of the degrees of kindred who are forbidden to marry each other according to Leviticus xviii. 6-18 in the Bible.


Achlys

(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek goddess of death-mist, misery and sadness.


Ruist

en-adj

Ruist (comparative more Ruist, superlative most Ruist)

more Ruist (comparative)
most Ruist (superlative)


Phanes

(Greek mythology) The primordial god of creation in the Orphic cosmogony.


Ourea

The primordial gods of the mountains in Greek mythology


Aion

From Ancient Greek Αἰών (Aiṓn, “Greek god or personification, Gnostic spirit”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac.

Eon

Greek god associate with time, the universe and the zodiac

(Gnosticism) Alternative spelling of aeon


spirit man

en-noun

spirit man (countable and uncountable, plural spirit men)

Thanks to the long, slow, patient years of constant small strengthenings of the spirit, in triumphs achieved over fleshly greeds and brutal instincts, the flesh now yields obedience, doubtful, irregular, and strange, almost questioning obedience at first, but none the less change has come, and the beginning of the spiritman's control over the carnal man is established.

It must be on the inside in order to stop sin and starvation of the spirit man inside of you.

2009, Cheryl E. Chavis, The Spirit Man In Her, page 19:

Notice that verse 18 says everything that is in the new nature (the spirit-man) is of God.

2012, Johnny Young Jr., The Truth About You:

(Christianity) In some Christian belief systems, one's innermost spiritual entity (i.e. the "heart"), as contrasted with the more outer soulish and physical aspects of one's being.


immediatorial

en-adj

immediatorial (comparative more immediatorial, superlative most immediatorial)

more immediatorial (comparative)
most immediatorial (superlative)

... from everything that opposed the divine operation in their souls, and who have been transformed into undimmed organs of God, for whose glory all things shall serve. The mediatorial kingdom of God will then merge into the immediatorial.

1865, August Neander, History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles, page 485:

Then God will be known immediately. We shall know Him, when the mediatorial has merged in the immediatorial, in a way more high, more intimate, more sublime, than even through Christ.

1872, Frederick William Robertson, Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: Delivered at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ..., page 227:

(chiefly Christianity, possibly obsolete) Not mediatorial; immediate.


long Barnaby

In the Old Style calendar, this was the longest day of the year.

(Christianity, obsolete) The feast day of Saint Barnabas, celebrated on June 11.


dyothelism

From that day, dyothelism became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church, both in the East and in the West; and in the eighth century it found a most subtle expounder in John of Damascus.

1891, Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson, David Schley Schaff, A Religious Encyclopaedia:

Two years later Anastasius II reinstituted dyothelism, and the same bishops who had two years before vetoed dyothelism now changed their mind, and adopted it as the only true exposition of faith !

1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature:

Finally, the concept of divine adoption becomes a controlling feature of the theology of deification in Maximus, due to his concern to maintain dyothelism in christology, as well as in ascetic anthropology.

2002, Nicholas V. Sakharov, I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony, →ISBN:

(Christianity, theology) The doctrine of two wills (human and divine) in Christ.


Deutero-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 40 to 55 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the work of an anonymous 6th-century BCE author writing during the Exile.


Proto-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 1 to 39 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the actual words of Isaiah.


Trito-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 56 to 66 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to have been composed after the return from Exile.


Ember week

(Christianity) The week in which the Ember days occur.


Ebionizing

(Christianity, historical) Having the religious views of the Ebionites.


three fires

(Buddhism) Three Poisons; three primary causes of unskillful action that lead to the creation of "negative" karma


fish-hook theory

(Christianity, theology, informal) The Christus Victor theory of atonement.


Triple Gem

Calque of Pali tisaraṇaṃ, Sanskrit त्रिशरण (triśaraṇa).

(Buddhism) The three main elements of Buddhism, i.e., Buddha, his teachings, and his clergy


Five Precepts

Calque of Pali pañcasīla, Sanskrit पञ्चशील (pañcaśīla).


Four Noble Truths

the Four Noble Truths (canonical plural)

Calque of Sanskrit चत्वारि आर्यसत्यानि (catvāri āryasatyāni).

calque

चत्वारि आर्यसत्यानि

noble eightfold path
noble eightfold path

(Buddhism) Four central Buddhist teachings: (i) that suffering is an innate characteristic of existence with each rebirth; (ii) that it is caused by cravings or desires; (iii) that it can be ended by eliminating the cravings or desires; and (iv) that the noble eightfold path is the way to achieve this.


five aggregates

(Buddhism) five skandhas (aggregates) of being


Bhagiratha

(Hinduism) A great king who brought the River Ganges, personified as the river goddess Ganga, to Earth from the heavens.


bhavacakra

Borrowed from Sanskrit भवचक्र (bhavacakra).

(Buddhism) symbolic representation of saṃsāra (or cyclic existence)


Hariti

(Buddhism) goddess and yakshini in certain Buddhist traditions


Eight Legions

(Buddhism) group of eight Buddhist deities protecting the Dharma


sectish

en-adj

sectish (comparative more sectish, superlative most sectish)

more sectish (comparative)
most sectish (superlative)

From sect + -ish; perhaps after obsolete German sektisch, sektierisch or German sektiererisch.

The only sect among Christians that is spoken of in terms— the Nicolaitan — is severely condemned. There are indications of sectish belief, against which John is supposed to labor in the first chapter of his Gospel, and Paul withstood in the Judaizing tendencies, even in a brother Apostle.

1880, David S. Warner, Bible proofs of the second work of grace […] , page 419:

One reason there are sects is that it is easy to be sectish. It is easier to be than not to be. This applies to everybody. To believe in one true church does not of itself insure one against a party spirit.

1920, D.S. Warner, J.C. Fisher, The Gospel Trumpet, volume 40, page 5:

If Menno, D. Philip and the many servants and congregations had pure teachings in their times, you, who carry the name Old Mennonites, certainly have a sectish teaching which devours like gnawing cancer, and all true children of God are[…]

1973, Clarence Hiebert, The Holdeman people: the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 1859-1969, William Carey Library, page 184:

The 'sectish' Marxism expounded by Hyndman and the SDF, and later by Morris and the Socialist League, was too narrow and dogmatic to allow the development of a workable strategy of engagement with the working class.

1997, Fintan Lane, The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 1881-1896, Cork University Press, →ISBN, page 226:

In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late nineteenth).

1998, John Gordon Stackhouse, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, Regent College Publishing, →ISBN, page 197:

(especially in Mennonitism) Sectarian; adherent to a sect, often to the degree of being dogmatic, insular and non-ecumenical.


churchish

churchish (comparative more churchish, superlative most churchish)

more churchish (comparative)
most churchish (superlative)

/ˈt͡ʃɚt͡ʃɪʃ/

He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.

1964, New South, volumes 19-20, Southern Regional Council, page 202:

Two children, a boy and a girl in naught but their shirts and barefoot, walked behind the churchish crowd and watched with studious intent the behaviour of their children,[…]

1983, Fierce, Fine World, Raduga Publishers, page 16:

Characters drift against a churchish background; the central women like the novel do not possess Pym's usual exuberance and irony. Cooley analyzes a passage to show how Pym here subordinates comedy to realism.

1998, Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym: An Annotated and Critical Secondary Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, page 501:

Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.


Mahavamsa

(Buddhism) Epic poem recounting the history of ancient Ceylon.


Eight Precepts

Calque of Pali aṭṭha-sīla, aṭṭhaṅga-sīla or Calque of Sanskrit अष्टा-सील (aṣṭā-sīla), अष्टाण्ग-शील (aṣṭāṇga-śīla).

calque

(Buddhism) Eight rules that are observed by lay Buddhists on observance days and festivals: to abstain from (i) taking life, (ii) taking what is not given, (iii) unchastity, (iv) false speech, (v) intoxicants which cause a careless frame of mind, (vi) taking food at the wrong time, (vii) dancing, music, visiting shows, flowers, make-up, the wearing of ornaments and decorations, and (viii) a tall, high sleeping place.


rising seat

(religion) A seat in a Quaker meeting, occupied by ministers and elders.


post-scrutiny

(Christianity) In electing a pope, the phase following scrutiny of the votes, during which the ballots are checked for errors and then burned.


pre-scrutiny

(Roman Catholicism) In electing a pope, the phase before scrutiny, during which ballot papers are prepared and scrutineers are selected.


titular church

en-noun

titular church (plural titular churches)

(Christianity) Any of the parish churches of Rome supplying a title to cardinal priests.


Post-Nicene

(religion) After the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.


Sakra

Transliteration of Sanskrit शक्र (śakra).

translit

(Buddhism) The Buddhist equivalent of Indra, ruler of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven in Buddhist cosmology.


Upali

Transliteration of Sanskrit उपालि (upāli) or Pali upāli.

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


Suddhodana

Transliteration of Sanskrit शुद्धोदन (śuddhodana) or Pali Suddhōdana.

(Buddhism) The father of Gautama Buddha.


Yasodhara

Transliteration of Sanskrit यशोधरा (yaśodharā) or Pali Yasodharā.

(Buddhism) The former wife of Gautama Buddha.


Rahula

Transliteration of Sanskrit राहुल (rāhula) or Pali Rāhula.


Mahapajapati Gotami

Transliteration of Pali Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, from Sanskrit महाप्रजापती गौतमी (mahāprajāpatī gautamī).

cog

महाप्रजापती गौतमी

(Buddhism) The stepmother and maternal aunt of Gautama Buddha.


Sariputta

Transliteration of Pali Sāriputta, from Sanskrit शारिपुत्र (śāriputra).


Anuruddha

Transliteration of Sanskrit अनुरुद्धा (anuruddhā) or Pali Anuruddhā.


Maudgalyayana

Transliteration of Sanskrit मौद्गल्यायन (maudgalyāyana).


Devadatta

Transliteration of Sanskrit देवदत्त (devadatta) or Pali Devadatta.

(Buddhism) The cousin and former disciple of Gautama Buddha.


Mahanipata Jataka

Transliteration of Pali mahānipāta jātaka.

(Buddhism) The ten great birth stories (or jatakas) of the Buddha.


Girimekhala

(Buddhism) The name of an elephant in Buddhist mythology.


Mucalinda

(Buddhism) A naga in Buddhist mythology.


dharmapala

(Buddhism) Buddhist deity; protector of Buddhism


Apalala

Transliteration of Sanskrit अपलाल (apalāla) or Pali Apalāla.

(Buddhism) The name of a water-dwelling naga in Buddhist mythology.


kumbhanda

Transliteration of Sanskrit कुम्भाण्ड (kumbhāṇḍa) or Pali kumbhaṇḍa.

(Buddhism) A dwarfish spirit in Buddhist mythology.


mahoraga

Transliteration of Pali mahoraga or Sanskrit महोरग (mahoraga).

(Indian mythology) A type of serpentine deity in Indian mythology, most notably Buddhism and Jainism.


New Light

An Antiburgher meeting house was erected at Blacks-well in 1761, and a New Light Burgher house, near the church, towards the end of last century.

1835, The New Statistical Account of Scotland, page 289:

[The Public Universal Friend] was born into a Quaker family in Rhode Island but was disowned in 1776 for joining the New Light Baptists.

1995, Hugh Barbour, Christopher Densmore, Elizabeth H. Moger, Nancy C. Sorel, Alson D. Van Wagner, Arthur J. Worrall, Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 44:

In Virginia, Samuel Davies, a New Light Presbyterian, and his followers had the greatest impact. The differences between New Lights and orthodox Anglicans centered mainly on two issues.

2006, Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 239:

Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.

2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:

(religion) A relatively progressive or less traditional religious movement, especially (historical) the party within the 18th-century Scottish Secession Church which adopted Voluntary views of the relations of church and state; or the Socinianizing party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.


Ten Perfections

(Buddhism) ten principal virtues or perfections (paramita) recognized in Buddhist scholarship


Manimekhala

Transliteration of Sanskrit मणिमेखल (maṇimekhala) or Pali Maņīmekhalā.

(Buddhism, Hinduism) The goddess in Hindu-Buddhist mythology; guardian of the seas.


Old Hundredth

(Christianity) A hymn tune in long metre, mainly associated with the 100th psalm, "All People that on Earth do Dwell".


parinirvana

en-noun

parinirvana (countable and uncountable, plural parinirvanas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit परिनिर्वाण (parinirvāṇa).

(Buddhism) The final release from rebirth.


golden bull

The term was originally coined for the golden seal (bulla aurea) attached to the decree, but came to be applied to the entire decree.

(historical, religion) A decree issued by Byzantine emperors and later by monarchs in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, most notably by the Holy Roman Emperors.


Relief Church

(Christianity, historical) A Scottish Presbyterian denomination founded in 1761, which united with the United Secession Church in 1847 to form the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.


chrysobull

In this respect the 1082 chrysobull marks a turning point not only in Byzantino-Venetian relations but also in the imperial state machinery.

2013, Judith Herrin, “The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy”, in Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, page 115:

Chrysobulls themselves were adorned with the imperial effigy in the early Palaiologan period. Three extant illuminated chrysobulls are associated with Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328), including one granting and extending the privileges of the Metropolitan of Monembasia in 1301.

2020, A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, page 376:


horarium

Pre-conciliar changes to the horarium or any entrenched practices were often small in scope...

2020, Carmen M. Mangion, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age:

(Catholicism) The daily schedule of a religious house or seminary.


select meeting

(religion) A Quaker meeting of ministers and elders.


thealogian

One who studies the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.


Old Light

(Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.


abandon hope all ye who enter here

From Dante Alighieri's work Inferno, translated by Henry Francis Cary as “all hope abandon ye who enter here”, from the Italian lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. The variant “abandon hope, all ye who enter here”, with a change of meaning, was likely chosen for its iambic pentameter.

der

Visitors enter through a set of huge wrought-iron gates decorated with basalt statues writhing in agony and the famous phrase ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.

2006, Karen Chance, Touch the Dark, Penguin, →ISBN:

It seems that, in many instances, the “abandon hope, all ye who enter here” warning that Microsoft displays on its knowledge base articles regarding the Registry really do ^([sic]) a good job of keeping the good guys out, […]

2011, Harlan Carvey, Windows Registry Forensics: Advanced Digital Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Elsevier, →ISBN:

Supposed inscription at the gate of hell.

наде́жда вся́ка ту́ка оставе́те

supposed inscription at the gate of hell

ken tästä käy, saa kaiken toivon heittää

lasst alle Hoffnung fahren, ihr, die eintretet

ki itt belépsz, hagyj fel minden reménnyel

porzućcie wszelką nadzieję, wy, którzy wchodzicie

deixai toda a esperança, vós que entrais

abandonad toda esperanza, aquellos que entréis aquí


congé d'élire

Borrowed from French congé d’élire (“leave to choose”).

bor+

The speed was such that the congé d’élire for Worcester arrived before the funeral of the dead bishop.

1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 25, note 2:

(Anglicanism) A licence from the Crown in England issued under the great seal to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of a diocese, authorizing them to elect a bishop or archbishop upon the vacancy of any episcopal see in England.


KJB

King James Bible
King James Bible#English


solar boat

(archaeology, Egyptology) A wooden burial boat intended to be used by a king to make celestial journeys in the afterlife.

(archaeology, Egyptology) The boat that, in myth, carries the sun on its journey across the sky; solar barque.


brahminical

Now the Jains officially recognise all the Gods of the Hindu creed, as well as the Lingam and the Snake. They wear the Brahminical thread; they adhere to every claim of Hindu caste-law.

1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 11, in Kim, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 254:

Despite the strict brahminical régime of his household, W. C. Tuttle was all for modernity.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 435:

[Pandit Lalluram] pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.

1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 3, in A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, published 1997, page 113:

Of or relating to brahmins or Brahmanism.


indifferentistic

en-adj

indifferentistic (comparative more indifferentistic, superlative most indifferentistic)

more indifferentistic (comparative)
most indifferentistic (superlative)

(philosophy, religion) Expressing or relating to indifferentism.


grand iftar

(Islam) A street party to celebrate the end of Ramadan.


free-willer

1614, John Robinson, Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, “Of the Baptism of Infants,” p. 96[a],
Since all are by nature alike children of wrath, I would know of these free-willers, how some become the children of God, & beleevers, & some abyde vnder the wrath of God?

1675, Richard Baxter, Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie, London: Nevill Simmons, “Of Natural Corruption and Impotency, and Free-will,” The third Crimination, p. 125,
And is it not then a horrid shame, to hear honest people so seduced into Love-killing factious sidings by their Teachers, as that Boys and Women speak of wiser and better persons with disaffection and reproach, saying, O he is a Free-willer, or he holdeth Free-will, when they know not what they talk of: but are made believe that it is some monstrous impious Opinion, making a man almost an Heretick?

1779, Isaac Watts, undated letter to Enoch Watts, in Posthumous Works, London: T. Becket and J. Bew, Volume 2, p. 153,
There was one Pelagius of old, that invented several opinions about free-will, and against free-grace, those that followed him strictly were called Pelagians; those that allowed more to free-grace were called Semi-Pelagians, almost the same with modern Armenians, called also Remonstrants, and by the common people Free-willers. Their notions are, that God elects none to salvation but on the account of that faith he foresees in them.

1862, Philip Cater, Punch in the Pulpit, London: William Freeman, Letter 1, p. 19,
[…] let a man be deeply imbued with the spirit of hyper-calvinism, and he will treat those whom he deems mistaken brethren, with ridicule and contempt; he will call them “free-willers,” “duty-faith men,” &c.; he will give them all sorts of nicknames, and cover them with all sorts of religious abuse.

(historical, Protestantism, derogatory) A person belonging to a sect that rejected the doctrine of predestination.


Tübingen School

(historical, Christianity) A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.


maphrian

From Classical Syriac ܡܲܦ̮ܪܝܵܢܵܐ (map̄ryānā, “one who causes to be abundant”).

der

Tabriz was not subordinated directly to the Patriarchate with the nominal see in Antioch in Syria, but to the so-called Maphrian, who administered the entire East of the West-Syrian sphere from Mesopotamia to Central Asia.

2014, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, “Civitas Thauris. The Significance of Tabriz in the Spiritual Frameworks of Christian Merchants and Ecclesiastics in the 13th and 14th Centuries”, in Judith Pfeiffer, editor, Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th–15th Century Tabriz, page 286:

(Christianity, West Syriac) catholicos, high-ranking bishop


Wilburite

(Christianity) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister John Wilbur (1774–1856); a member or adherent of the Conservative Friends.


Gurneyite

(Christianity) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister Joseph John Gurney, generally following evangelical doctrines on Jesus Christ, the Atonement, and the Bible.


Canon of the Mass

(Roman Catholicism) The oldest anaphora used in the Roman rite of Mass.


therianthropy

/ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi/

Despite occasional YouTube videos which demonstrate the activities of a 'howl' (a wolf meet), the small amount of existing research into therianthropy as a cultural phenomenon demonstrates that the communities largely exist online and rarely venture into real space.

2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, page 142:

(otherkin subculture) The characteristic of being a therianthrope; therianism.


holy orders

(Christianity) The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.


archflamen

en-noun

archflamen (plural archflamens or archflamines)

archflamens (plural)
archflamines (plural)


parish priest

(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.


kirk-session

(Christianity) The lowest court in Presbyterian churches, being the governing body of a particular congregation.


Auld Kirk

(Christianity) The Established Church in Scotland.


missionary rector

missionary rector (plural missionary rectors)

(Christianity) A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England.


Libertas

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lībertās. Doublet of liberty

(Roman mythology) the Roman goddess and personification of liberty; equivalent to the Greek goddess Eleutheria.


ex opere operato

(theology) From the work worked; referring to sacraments deriving their power from Christ's work rather than the role of humans, and thus not requiring faith to be effective.


devaloka

Transliteration of Sanskrit देवलोक (devaloka).

translit

(Hinduism, Buddhism) In Indian religions, a plane of existence where gods and devas exist.


by Allah

From Arabic الله (allāh, “the deity, God”). Compare by God.

The eldest, however, having hent in hand a bannock of bread, exclaimed, “By Allah, verily this cake was baked by a woman in her ailment!”

1885, Richard F. Burton, “Story of the Sultan of Al-Yamman and his three sons”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, volume III, page 357:

O community of Muhammad! By Allah, if you knew what I knew, you would laugh little and weep much.

1989, Malik ibn Anas, translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley, Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas:

(Islam) An oath to emphasize sincerity or truthfulness, by God


by Allah

“Oh!” said the King, “by Allah! but vengeance is an inspiriting pleasure!”

1878, Mariana Monteiro, Allah-Akbar. God is Great, page 101:

(Islam) An exclamation of surprise or excitement, oh my God! good Lord!


mesirah

From Hebrew מְסִירָה f (m'sira, “a turning over”).

der

(Judaism) The act by which one Jew reports the conduct of another Jew to a non-rabbinic authority in a manner prescribed by Rabbinic Law.


Low Mass

An ordinary Roman Catholic or Anglo-Catholic Mass celebrated without music and incense.


water of life

Chiefly a calque of Medieval Latin aqua vītae directly and via Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, whisky, and whiskey from the same sources.

(religion, figurative) Spiritual refreshment.


antiworship

God objects to paganism and idolatry because it is the ultimate act of antiworship, where humans create a god in their own image, or else humans create manageable gods that they think they can manipulate or control, or humans use the pantheon to legitimate the violence and machinations of mischievous monarchs.

2013, Michael F. Bird, Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction, Zondervan, →ISBN:

I have named this paradoxical position—a combination of belief and antiworship —as misotheism. The word is derived from the Greek root misos misos (for 'hatred') and theos (for 'God').

2013, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:

There exists significant doubt about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship.

2014, Liam Leonard, Sya B. Kedzior, Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 106:


rootless cosmopolitan

en-noun

rootless cosmopolitan (plural rootless cosmopolitans)

Calque of Russian безро́дный космополи́т (bezródnyj kosmopolít).

calque

безро́дный космополи́т

(euphemistic, derogatory) A Jew, particularly in the context of the antisemitic campaign in the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1953.


titular of the tithes

en-noun

titular of the tithes (plural titulars of the tithes)

(Christianity, historical) A layman invested with church lands after the Reformation in Scotland.


Simeonite

(Christianity) A follower of the Cambridge evangelical preacher Charles Simeon (1759-1836), whose influence is perpetuated by the Simeon Trust, established for purchasing advowsons.


Second Adventist

Second Adventist (plural Second Adventists)

(Christianity) One who lives in expectation of a second coming of Christ to establish a personal kingdom on earth.


Reminiscere Sunday

From Latin Reminiscere (“Remember!”), the beginning of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally drawn from Latin translations of Psalm 25.

(Roman Catholicism) The second Sunday in Lent.


Quadragesima Sunday

(Christianity) The first Sunday in Lent, the sixth before Easter.


Fig Sunday

(Christianity) Synonym of Palm Sunday: the Sunday before Easter.


Oculi Sunday

From Latin oculi (“eyes”), from the 1st word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 25:15.

(Roman Catholicism) The third Sunday in Lent.


Ash Monday

By analogy with Ash Wednesday, the traditional beginning of Lent in Western Christianity, despite the usual lack of an imposition of ashes during the day's celebration.

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

(Maronite and Eastern Christianity) Synonym of Clean Monday: the seventh Monday before Easter, traditionally used as the beginning of Lent in Eastern Christianity.


synthronon

synthronon (plural synthronons or synthrona)

From Ancient Greek σύνθρονον (súnthronon).

In the axis of the basilica, opposite the central apse and 20 m from the choir platform, is a semicircular exedra 6.7 m in span and 4.5 m deep designed for the synthronon.

1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in edited by Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 539–540:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A structure, in the apse, containing the cathedra and seating for priests assisting a bishop.


Joachimite

(historical, Christianity) A member of a millenarian group that arose from the Franciscans in the 13th century, basing their ideas on the prior works of Joachim of Fiore, though rejecting the church of their day more strongly than he had.


katwa

Borrowed from Hindi कटवा (kaṭvā), derived from Hindi काटना (kāṭnā, “to cut”), referring to the Muslim practice of circumcision.

(India, offensive, derogatory, religious slur) a Muslim man.

sulla

other insulting terms directed at Indian or Pakistani Muslims


separationism

(theology) The belief that the human Jesus Christ was a separate being from the divine Christ.


orbuculum

Modern coinage from Latin orbis; not attested in classical Latin.


KJV-onlyer

The meaning that can be derived from the word itself is "without error." In other words, the Bible was given without error of any sort. Now, excepting KJV-onlyers, most inerrantists would limit inerrancy to the original writings, none of which currently exist.

1997 August 16, Trevor Peterson, “Re: Contradictions in the Bible”, in christnet.theology (Usenet):

(Seeing as how Erasmus was a Roman Catholic who set the Vulgate at a level where modern KJV-onlyers set it, he might have believed the Vulgate was perfect, so such texts absent from his Greek manuscripts probably were present in the original, in his thinking); […]

1997 October 13, Daniel Arseneault, “Re: Is The KJV Inspired?”, in alt.religion.christian.anabaptist.brethren (Usenet):

[…] [As a side note, at least the first two in your list have people whose full-time job it is to hate them. I can't recall too many slams against the NASB, but I imagine that KJV-onlyers hate it.]

2004 January 14, Mark Sornson, “Re: Another troubling statement from "God's" organization - Can anyone confirm or deny?”, in alt.religion.jehovahs-witn (Usenet):

(informal) Someone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.


Hajjee

On his way thither he met an ancient Hajjee, who, saluting Hussun, surveyed him carefully, and then desired him to sit down beside him upon a mat which, he spread upon the ground.

1828, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 298:

The Hajjee performs the prescribed rites, following the order of the farewell pilgrimage in prayers and physical movement to the various sites as performed by the Prophet Mohammed in 632 AD.

1976, Michael Huxley, The Geographical Magazine:

During the period between 1992 and 1996, five to thirty one per thousand of all deaths among Hajjees were due to diabetic coma.
This is especially true during the climax period, when all Hajjees move at the same time between holy places over five days. During these five days, Hajjees usually walk many kilometres daily, do not sleep well, and do not get proper diet or nutrition.

(Islam) One who participates in the Hajj.


baraminologically

en-adv

baraminologically (comparative more baraminologically, superlative most baraminologically)

more baraminologically (comparative)
most baraminologically (superlative)

(creationism) In a baraminological manner.


paleobaramin

(rare, creationism) A group of older, now deceased members of a holobaramin.


neobaramin

(rare, creationism) A group of the currently alive members of a baramin.


neo-creationism

A pseudoscientific movement which attempts to reframe Christian creationism in more scientific terms, rather than citing Biblical scripture to support their claims.


archaebaramin

(creationism) A group of the originally created members of a baramin.


abrupt appearance theory

the abrupt appearance theory (canonical)

(creationism) A neo-creationist hypothesis which claims that the first life and the universe appeared abruptly, and that plants and animals appeared abruptly in complex form.

punctuated equilibrium

scientific hypothesis with a degree of analogy but entirely consistent with evolution


day-age

the day-age approach


creationist orchard

Analogous to the tree of life, to which the diagram was created in opposition.

(pseudoscience) A diagram referenced by Christian creationists that illustrates the alleged origins of multiple unrelated created kinds of species.


day-age creationism

Old Earth creationism
Old Earth creationism

A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years).


gap creationism

A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis. The hypothesis states that this explains many scientific observations, including the age of the Earth.


gap creationist

en-noun

gap creationist (plural gap creationists)


day-ager

A day-age creationist; a proponent of day-age creationism.


progressive creationism

A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that God created new forms of life gradually over a period of hundreds of millions of years.


anticreationist

en-adj

anticreationist (comparative more anticreationist, superlative most anticreationist)

more anticreationist (comparative)
most anticreationist (superlative)


procreationist

(rare) Someone who supports creationism.


theistic evolutionist

en-noun

theistic evolutionist (plural theistic evolutionists)


day-age creationist

day-age creationist (plural day-age creationists)


evolutionary creationist

evolutionary creationist (plural evolutionary creationists)

evolutionary creationism
evolutionary creationism

A proponent of evolutionary creationism; someone who believes in theistic evolution.


progressive creationist

en-adj

progressive creationist (not comparable)

progressive creationism
progressive creationism

Of or related to progressive creationism.


progressive creationist

en-noun

progressive creationist (plural progressive creationists)


creation scientist

creation scientist (plural creation scientists)

Thomas Kuhn had just published his theory of paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions, a brilliant (and controversial) analysis perennially abused by climate-change deniers and creation-scientists, who take him to have said that there’s no way to distinguish kooks from Galileo.

2013 October 22, Alan Levinovitz, “Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine”, in Slate:

Someone who studies and advocates creation science.


intelligent designer

intelligent designer (plural intelligent designers)

From intelligent design + -er (“supporter”).

A proponent of the intelligent design hypothesis.


missionary bishop

missionary bishop (plural missionary bishops)

(Christianity) A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church.


apistevist

From a- + Ancient Greek πιστεύω (pisteúō, “to trust, put faith in”) + -ist.

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2011, BionicDance, A Pissed-Off Apistevist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVyi8p79w4

I myself identify as an apistevist (one who rejects faith), because faith is an assertion of unreasonable conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason.

2016, Aron Ra, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

So, just shuffle your non-apistevist self out of this group and go bother...well, nobody. I wouldn't wish your drivel on anyone else.

2017 August 21, Kevrob, “faith means exactly "I ain't got no evidence"”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Remember I'm a religious apistevist, a political atheist, and a DTAP (don't trust anyone person). Free and easy, rough and ready.

2017 September 19, max.it, “"English" county cricket”, in uk.sport.cricket (Usenet):

Even more so than religion, even rational skeptical apistevists can suddenly become blindsided by the passionate fury of politics.

2018 October 30, Oxyaena, “OT-ish: A Thought Experiment”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

(rare, particularly religion) Someone who rejects using faith as a legitimate method to reach conclusions.


athamé

(hyperforeign) Alternative form of athame


crystal magick

(Wicca) The ceremonial use of crystals for specific intentions and healing energies


lovespell

A Wiccan ritual meant to attract or distract someone sexually or romantically usually performed either by decorating poppet likeness with flowers or by inscribing their name and attaching their picture on a candle


white handled knife

en-noun

white handled knife (plural white handled knives)

One of the ceremonial tools of Wicca, used specifically for the ritual cutting of plants and herbs; a boline.


candle magick

(Wicca) The ceremonial use of candles for specific intentions and involving a complex color correspondence system.


binding spell

A Wiccan ritual meant stop someone from committing harm usually performed either by tying up a poppet likeness or by inscribing their name on a candle


money spell

A Wiccan ritual meant to attract money, employment, and fortune performed either by decorating poppet likeness with coins, bills, and gems or by inscribing imagery of currency on a candle


burning times

(derogatory) The era of persecution and execution of suspected witches, often incorrectly expanded to include the Early and High Middle Ages.


cone of power

(Wicca) Mental energy amassed individually or collectively for a magickal purpose.


hagstone

An adder stone, a stone with a naturally occurring hole through it.

(Wicca) A ceremonial stone with a hole drilled into used to ward off evil or see into other worlds.


Holy Robe

(Christianity) The robe said to have been worn by Christ during or shortly before his crucifixion.


AiG

(creationism) Initialism of Answers in Genesis.


rabbinist

(Judaism) One who adheres to the Talmud and traditions of the rabbis.


little office

(Christianity) A short service of psalms, hymns, collects, etc.


watch of the night

watch of the night (plural watches of the night)

Loan translation of Latin vigilia noctis.

(timekeeping, historical, biblical) In Antiquity, one of four divisions of the night (each equivalent to three hours).


dark night of the soul

Your dear friend ought to take heart. From what you have told me, it is quite likely that they are going through a dark night of the soul.

(Catholicism) a period of time in which a holy person (someone believed to be potentially on their way to sainthood) experiences a seeming withdrawal of God's previously-felt presence in their lives, and undergoes stark spiritual attacks. This period of time is seen (by Catholics) to be a period in which God is calling the holy person to rid themselves of any remaining vestiges of self-pride and vanity that they may have.

a lélek sötét éjszakája

a period of time in which a holy person experiences a seeming withdrawal of God’s previously-felt presence in their lives, and undergoes stark spiritual attacks


kezayit

(Judaism) An amount of something, usually food, about the size of an olive.


Kris Kringel

The Germans brought to the county not only their skills but customs that we still see followed throughout the area. Some of these were the celebrating of Bels Nichol or Kris Kringel on the eve of St. Nicholas' feast in December; [...]

1977, Norbert Krapf, editor, Finding the Grain: Pioneer Journals, Franconian Folktales, Ancestral Poems, Jasper, Ind.: Dubois County Historical Society and Herald Printing, →ISBN, page 13:

Standing in the reception was a tall older man with a big bushy white beard that looked exactly like Kris Kringel in Miracle on 42nd Street.^([sic – meaning Miracle on 34th Street])

2004, Ballooning, volume 37, San Luis Obispo, Calif.: Balloon Federation of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:


Kriss Kringel

In Germany, Santa has long been known as "Kriss Kringel" (derived from Christ Child). In America, the name is still used by the Pennsylvania Dutch.

1976, Good Housekeeping, volume 183, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76:

“I find it appalling that Kriss Kringel’s brother could be so cold-hearted about Christmas,” said Bartoli.

2000, E[ugene] F[orrest] Shelby, “The Antisanta”, in Gothic Alaskan and Other Stories: Bad Horror from the Dark Subcontinent, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 198:


Mahakala

(Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism) A deity in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism, sometimes considered a manifestation of Shiva.


Johnsmas

(UK, dialect, archaic, Christianity) The feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on 24 June.


Dyophysitic

(theology) Of or relating to the Dyophysites.


Dyophysitism

(theology) The doctrine of the Dyophysites.


consecrated virgin

consecrated virgin (plural consecrated virgins)

(Christianity) A woman consecrated by the Catholic church to a life of perpetual virginity as an exclusive spouse of Christ, as a member of the order of virgins.


water drinker

(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.


Esav

Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.

2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:

(Judaism) The son of Yitzhak and Rivka and the older twin brother of Yaakov.


Yaakov

In contrast, Yaakov is associated with the month of Elul, a month characterized by contemplation, in which we, Yaakov’s children, consider our own needed transformation.

(Judaism) The son of Yitzhak and Rivka, twin brother of Esav, and patriarch of the Jews.


Kisshōten

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese version of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi: goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.


eschatologism

eschatologism (usually uncountable, plural eschatologisms)

Eschatologism as an attitude is fundamentally different to mechanicism because it aspires beyond space and time towards non-worldly realities which drive history and the very scientific exploration of the world.

2011, Alexei Nesteruk, The Universe as Communion:

Bloch's eschatologism is a political programme, to which the book on Müntzer bears testimony.

2014, Ivan Boldyrev, Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism:

The belief that the world is renewed through apocalyptic crises.


dakhma

tower of silence
tower of silence#English

(Zoroastrianism) Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”)


requiem mass

(Christianity, music) A mass sung for the repose of the soul of a dead person


Ghost of God

From Middle English gost of God, gaste of Godd.

And we should not alter any word in the Scripture, which wholly is ministered unto us by the Ghost of God.

1809, Thomas Cranmer, The Life, Martyrdom, and Selections from the Writings of Thomas Cranmer, page 99:

It was the emergence of the Ghost of God, the Spirit of God that had now experienced the incarnation of Himself in the Flesh of His own Word, Jesus...and He (The Holy Ghost) speaks (Hebrews 12:24-29)!

2019, Derick Virgil, The Holy Ghost: He is the Blood of Jesus, page 122:

(Christianity, rare) An epithet of the Holy Spirit.


Anusim

From Hebrew אֲנוּסִים (literally “compelled ones”).

bor

(Judaism) A Jew who violates Jewish law or is an apostate due to coercion, such as state persecution, often living as crypto-Jews.


Sabbathism

[…] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.

1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, volumes 3-6, page 325:

As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.

1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity:

(dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.


holidayism

The tide of holidayism which came into Christianity with the Sunday has never been checked, even temporarily, by any other authority. Divine authority alone can make a Sabbath; whatever is less than that, cannot rise above holidayism.

1890, Annual Baptist Autumnal Conference for the Discussion of Current Questions, volumes 8-10:

And now, slain by their folly and error, these same Christian leaders sink willingly into holidayism, or wail in wondering weakness over the fact that they must reap what they and their ancestors have sown.

1922, The Sabbath Recorder, volumes 90-92, page 10:

(dated, Christianity, derogatory) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a day off rather than a solemn religious occasion.


zav

en-noun

zav (countable and uncountable, plural zavs)

(Judaism, uncountable) A state of ritual impurity arising from abnormal seminal discharge by the male.

(Judaism, countable) A person who is impure for this reason.


Muzawwara

Borrowed from Arabic مُزَوَّرَة (muzawwara).

(Islam) The city of Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq.


Zawra'

(Islam) the cities of Tehran (capital of Iran) and Ray (near Tehran).


Unigenitus

From Latin ūnigenitus (“only begotten”); its opening words were "unigenitus dei filius", meaning "only begotten son of God".

(Christianity, historical) An apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713, which condemned 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel.


covenant of grace

(Christianity) God's promise of eternal life for all people who have faith in Christ.


process theology

process theology (countable and uncountable, plural process theologies)

A kind of theology developed from process philosophy, and according to which it is an essential attribute of God to affect and be affected by temporal processes, rather than being eternal and immutable.