ablution

en-noun

ablution (countable and uncountable, plural ablutions)

From Middle English ablucioun (“cleansing of impurities”), from Old French ablution, and its source, Late Latin ablūtiō (“a washing away”), from abluō (“wash away”), from ab- (“away”) + lavō (“wash”).

ablutie

Roman Catholic Church: a small quantity of wine and water

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.


write

en-verb

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

writes (present singular third-person)
writing (participle present)
wrote (past)
writ (archaic past)
written (participle past)
writ (archaic participle past)
ywriten (obsolete participle past)
write (infinitive)

From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

cog

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon.


see

en-verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

sees (present singular third-person)
seeing (participle present)
saw (past)
seen (dialectal past)
seent (dialectal past)
seed (dialectal past)
seen (participle past)
seent (dialectal participle past)
seed (dialectal participle past)
saw (dialectal participle past)
see (infinitive)

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

there are none so blind as those who will not see

there's none so blind as those who will not see

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

I've been seeing her for two months.

"You're... remarrying? I didn't even know you were seeing someone. And she's going to live here?"

2022 September 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 9, 2022:

(social) To meet, to visit.
To date frequently.

I saw the old lady safely across the road.

You can see yourself out.

And in this Name we overcome, for You shall see us safely home.

2020, Rich Thompson, Jonny Robinson (lyrics and music), “Your Will Be Done”:

(transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.


energy

en-noun

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

→ Cebuano: enerdyi

→ Japanese: エナジー (enajī)

→ Korean: 에너지 (eneoji)

From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.

coin

The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.

2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:

We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.

2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2

The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.

2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, pages 368–369:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.


asterisk

/ˈæstəˌɹɪsk/

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The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterískos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (astḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos, diminutive suffix).
Sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
The verb is derived from the noun.

tähti

small star; something resembling or shaped like a star

Then he [the deacon] reverently covereth the holy Cup with the veil. Likewise he placeth the Asterisk upon the holy Diskos, and the veil over it, and saith the following prayer with the Priest, silently, […]

1866, John Chrysostom, “Liturgy of the Catechumens”, in [anonymous], transl., Service of the Divine and Sacred Liturgy of Our Holy Father John Chrysostom. […], London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, pages 69–70:

The asterisk is one of the sacred objects used in the Byzantine rite. It is placed on the paten to protect the Eucharistic bread from contact with the special veil that covers it. The name derives from the shape of the object and symbolically recalls the Biblical words: "And the star came and stood above where the child was" […] [Matthew 2:9].

1962, Marvin C. Ross, “Copper”, in Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, volume 1 (Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting), Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, published 1970, →OCLC, paragraph 89, page 73:

The diskos, then, typifies the heavens, and for that reason, it is round, and holds the Master of heaven. What is called the ‘asterisk’ represents the stars, especially the one at the birth of Christ, just as the veils represent the firmament, the swaddling clothes, the shroud, and the burial cloths.

2013, Bryan D[ouglas] Spinks, quoting Symeon of Thessalonica (in translation), “The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis”, in Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day (SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy), London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 126:

(dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.

tähti

instrument with radiating arms placed over the diskos used during the Eucharist


Byzantine

en-adj

Byzantine (comparative more Byzantine, superlative most Byzantine)

more Byzantine (comparative)
most Byzantine (superlative)

From Late Latin byzantinus, itself from Byzantium. The metaphorical senses evoke the reputation for palace intrigue of the Byzantium imperial court.

This was the crowning incident of our visit, and I wondered with what Byzantine ritual the Anointed One fresh from the exercise of his priestly functions would be received among his women.

1920 October, Edith Wharton, In Morocco, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 180:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism) Of or relating to the Byzantine Rite or any of the many Eastern Orthodox churches and Greek Catholic churches that use this rite for their liturgical celebrations.


pope

Jamaican Creole: puop

Tok Pisin: pop

→ Hindi: पोप (pop)

→ Urdu: پوپ (pop)

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

der

(Coptic Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.


Holy Ghost

From Middle English Holi Gost, from Old English Hāliġ Gāst, a calque of Latin Spīritus Sānctus, which in turn is a calque of Ancient Greek Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον (Pneûma tò Hágion), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath, vital force, soul”) + ἅγιος (hágios, “holy”)), a calque of Hebrew רוח הקודש (ruaḥ ha-qodesh), from רוח (ruaḥ, “wind, breath, spirit”) + קודש (qodesh, “holiness”), from earlier רוח יהוה (ruaḥ yahveh, “wind of Yahweh”).

calque

Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον

Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18:

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

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

I baptise thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

1899, “Lay Baptism”, in The Catholic's Pocket Prayer-Book, page 4:

There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(Christianity) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence, which becomes present in and among the faithful (particularly inspired prophets) and is considered to proceed either (Eastern Orthodoxy) from God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


Holy Spirit

From Late Middle English Holy Speryte, holy spiriet, holy spyryt, an alteration of earlier Middle English Holygost, Haliȝ Gast, holy goost (see Holy Ghost), equivalent to holy + Spirit.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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

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

(Christianity) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either from (Eastern Orthodoxy) God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


horology

en-noun

horology (usually uncountable, plural horologies)

From Latin horologia, from horo- + -logia, equivalent to Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “period of time, hour”) + -λογία (-logía, “-ology: study or proper knowledge of”). Equivalent to horo- + -ology.

der

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The book of the offices for the canonical hours.


apa

A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.


azymite

From Latin azȳmita, from Ancient Greek ἀζῡμίτης (azūmítēs), from ἄζῡμος (ázūmos) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming masculine nouns meaning being connected to or a member of something, or coming from a particular place). ἄζῡμος is derived from ᾰ̓- (a-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven, yeast”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of result or abstract nouns of action). The English word is analysable as, by surface analysis, a- + zym- + -ite or azyme + -ite.

“Shall we drink a cup in honour of the Holy Virgin, and confusion to the Azymites?” / “Yes, yes! shouted the multitude. “Away with the Azymites—we want no new religion here;” and, singing and shouting, they threw up their caps in the air, […]

1843, Catherine Charlotte Maberly, Melanthe; or, The Days of the Medici: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century, volume 1, page 248:

“Away with them!” cried the Greeks; “we want no Latin allies! Away with the worship of the azymites!”

1898, Joseph Epiphane Darras, Martin John Spalding, Charles Ignatius White, A General History of the Catholic Church: From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century, volume 3, page 602:

Moreover, the Azymites were often guilty of another monstrous crime: they fasted judaistically on Saturdays.

1916, Rothay Reynolds, My Slav Friends, page 15:

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread, in particular a member of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.

azymite

one who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread


cherubim

From Hebrew כרֻבִים (keruvím), from כְּרוּב (kerúv) + ־ים (-im) masculine plural suffix.

As he looks up at the organ, Miss Tox in the gallery shrinks behind the fat leg of a cherubim on a monument, with cheeks like a young Wind, Captain Cuttle, on the contrary, stands up and waves his hook, in token of welcome and encouragement.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Again, if we put the two cherubims on each side but still on the lid, the size of the Ark doesn't allow enough space for a King, […]

2014, Rebecca Tourniaire, King of the Ark, page 44:


hierarch

From Medieval Latin hierarcha, from Ancient Greek ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs) Derived from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler”, “leader”).
ἱερός from Proto-Hellenic *iherós, from Proto-Indo-European *ish₁ros. There are a number of candidate cognates with this word. Compare Sanskrit इषिर (iṣira, “vigorous, fresh, blooming”) and Oscan 𐌀𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌔𐌉𐌔 (aisusis).

cog

The law states that the local ordinary can give to any Catholic priest the faculty to bless the marriages of non-Catholic Eastern Christians if the faithful voluntarily ask for it and the priest prudently informs the appropriate hierarch.

2016 October 11, Peter Jesserer Smith, “Pope’s Canon-Law Change Strengthens East and West”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), National Catholic Register:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.

ιεράρχης

a title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (Eastern Orthodoxy)


Hades

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

lbor

(specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.


archimandrite

/ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/

Borrowed from French archimandrite, from Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “highest”) + μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosure, cloister, monastery”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “member of”).

uder

ἀρχιμανδρίτης

My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves. I have been an archimandrite, here at Pskov, since 1915 and a humble monk for twenty years before that.

2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.

архимандрит

(Eastern Orthodoxy, rarely Catholicism) An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.


rector

Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.

(Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.


mystery

en-noun

mystery (countable and uncountable, plural mysteries)

From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from μύστης (mústēs, “initiated one”), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μύω (múō, “I shut”). Displaced native Old English ġerȳne.

der

There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil.

1809, Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808:

(archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.


archpriest

From Middle English archepreest, archeprest, archiprest, ercheprest, erchepreste; compare Old French archeprestre and Medieval Latin archipresbyter; equivalent to arch- + priest.

(Eastern Orthodox Church) The highest rank given to a married priest.


parish

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy


patron saint

When Aimé Humbert joined Josephine in Paris, he visited the Inspector of Police, and was so depressed by his meeting that she sent him to the Louvre ‘to look at the wonderful painting of St Marguerite, the patron saint of purity, trampling down the hideous dragon and looking so calm and peaceful’.

2014, Helen Mathers, Patron Saint of Prostitutes: Josephine Butler and a Victorian Scandal, History Press, →ISBN:

My patron saint, St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco—also known as “St. John the Wonderworker”—is particularly noteworthy in this regard […]

2016 July 8, Wesley J. Smith, “St. John the Wonderworker”, in First Things:

Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site.

2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:

(Christianity) A saint conceived as the patron (protector or supporter) of a particular place, group, person, or activity, for whom or for which his or her intercession is specially invoked.

主保聖人

saint from whom a specific group claims special protection or prayer


consistent

Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).

[F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."

[1884, William E[dward] Addis, Thomas Arnold, “PENITENTIAL DISCIPLINE AND BOOKS”, in A Catholic Dictionary: Containing Some Account of the Doctrine, Discipline, Rites, Ceremonies, Councils, and Religious Orders of the Catholic Church, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 651:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.


repose

en-verb

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

reposes (present singular third-person)
reposing (participle present)
reposed (participle past)
reposed (past)
repose (infinitive)

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Édouard Manet

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end”), from Ancient Greek παῦσῐς (paûsis, “ceasing, stopping”), from παύω (paúō, “to cease; to make to cease, stop; to bring to an end; to hinder”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result)).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English repose, from Anglo-Norman repous, repos, and Middle French repos, repose, from Old French repos (“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”) (modern French repos), from reposer, repauser (verb) (see above).
Noun sense 12.3 (“technique of including in a painting an area or areas which are dark, indistinct, or soft in tone”) is borrowed from French repos.
cognates
* Catalan reposar (verb), repòs (noun)
* Italian riposare (verb), riposo (noun)
* Old Occitan repausar, repauzar (verb), repaus (noun)
* Portuguese repousar (verb), repouso (noun)
* Spanish reposar (verb), reposo (noun)

ref

From the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

odpočívat

to cause (oneself) to take a rest from some activity; to allow (oneself) to recover from some activity

arãpas

to lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest — see also rest

Simon reposed in the year 1287.

Lord Jesus, who at the hour of Compline reposedst in the tomb, and wast bewailed by thy most sorrowful Mother, and by other women; make us, we beseech thee, with true tears, to bewail thy most holy Passion, and never to give place to the things by which thou wouldst be crucified again.

[1850], James Merlo Horstius, “Litany of the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ”, in [anonymous], transl., The Paradise of the Christian Soul, […], London: Burns & Lambert, […], →OCLC, part VI (On the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ), page 460, column 2:

(also figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.

(figurative) Especially (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) of a saint: to die, to rest in peace.


repose

en-noun

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

հանգիստ

temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; an instance of this — see also break, rest

(uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.

(countable, Eastern Orthodoxy) The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.


slava

From South Slavic slava / слава (slava), literally "fame, honour". The word is also used in some Slavic languages to wish blessings to another person.

1942: I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a Slava (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.


chalice

From Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice, borrowed from Latin calix, calicem (“cup”), from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux). Doublet of calyx and kelch. Compare Sumerian 𒃲(GAL).

[W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1:

A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.

A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.


ROC

Translingual: ROC

Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church#English

(Russia) Abbreviation of Russian Orthodox Church.


iconostasis

iconostasis (plural iconostases or iconostaseis)

iconostases (plural)
iconostaseis (plural)

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek εἰκονόστασις (eikonóstasis), from εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + στάσις (stásis, “fixture”).

bor+

εἰκονόστασις

The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in an Eastern Orthodox church.


prologue

From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.


confessor

From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).

They do not feel connected to any gay/lesbian communities. Nor do they feel able to establish relationships with anyone who can support them. Thus an inexperienced but sincere young heterosexual actor can find himself playing not only role model but also confessor and phantom friend to people in great need.

1994 October, Larry Gross, “Coming Out On the Soaps”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution


deacon

Inherited from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

der

(Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).


Horologium

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Christian Huygens
Horologium (constellation)
Horologium Oscillitorium
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Solarium Augusti
Tower of the Winds

See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.

bor

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.


horologium

en-noun

horologium (plural horologiums or horologia)

/hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/

/hɔɹəˈloʊɡiəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊɡɪəm/

From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.

(Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.


hiero-

From Ancient Greek prefix ἱερο- (hiero-), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”).

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Denoting a man of a title such as a monk who is also a clergyman (e.g. hieromonk, hierodeacon, hieromartyr).


dormition

dormition (countable and uncountable, plural dormitions)

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Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem.

The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 507:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.

رُقَاد

the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary


archdeacon

From Middle English arcedekne, archdecon, archdekne, archdekyn, archedeken, archedekyn, archedyacun, archideken, archidiacon, ardekne, ercedekene, ercedekne, erchdekene, erchedekene, erchedekne, erresdeken, ersedekne, ersedekyn, from Old English ærcedæcne, ærcediæcne, earcedæcne (from Late Latin archidiāconus) and Old French arc(h)ediacne.

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.


epitrachelion

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἐπιτραχήλιον (epitrakhḗlion), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios, “on the neck”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns). ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios) is from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon, on top of, covering”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on; at; near”)) + τράχηλος (trákhēlos, “neck”) + -ῐος (-ios) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix forming adjectives)).

bor

ἐπιτραχήλιον

der

ἐπιτραχήλιος

[A] little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.

1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, page 232

The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.

1987, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 26, Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, →ISBN, page 878, column 2:

The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.

2014, Linda Safran, “Notes”, in The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 373, footnote 14:

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.


Eastern Orthodox Church

en-proper noun

Eastern Orthodox Church (plural Eastern Orthodox Churches)

Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church

Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church

One of the major branches of Christianity; it comprises the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and other patriarchates.


mandylion

en-noun

mandylion (countable and uncountable, plural mandylions)

From Byzantine Greek μανδύλιον (mandúlion), μανδίλιον (mandílion), μαντίλιον (mantílion), or μανδήλη (mandḗlē, “cloth, hand towel, handkerchief, tablecloth”) (the last word dating to the 5th century), especially in the term τὸ ἄγιον μανδήλιον (tò ágion mandḗlion, “the holy towel”); from Latin mantēlium, a variation of mantēle or mantēlum (“hand towel, napkin”) (probably misconstructed as a singular form from the plural mantēlia); probably from manus (“hand”) + tergō (“to rub, wipe, wipe off, clean, cleanse”). Probably cognate with Umbrian mantrahklu.

The tradition of the sacred image is related to established prototypes […] handed down in Christian art, the most important [of which] is the acheiropoietos ("not made by human hands") image of the Christ on the Mandilion. It is said that the Christ gave His image, imprinted on a piece of fabric, to the messengers of the King of Edessa, Abgar, who had asked Him for His portrait. The Mandilion had been preserved at Constantinople until it disappeared when the town was pillaged by the Latin Crusaders. A copy of the Mandilion is preserved in the cathedral of Laon.

1967, Titus Burckhardt; Lord Northbourne (Walter Earnest Christopher James), transl., Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and Methods, London: Perennial Books, OCLC 896652107; republished Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 2001, ISBN 978-1-887752-41-1, pages 88–89

According to a sixth-century legend, King Abgar Ukamâ of Edessa fell ill. Hearing about a healer named Jesus, he sent for the holy man and promised to become his follower. Christ learned of this and praised Abgar for having faith without visual evidence. Unable to travel to Edessa, Christ sent a likeness of himself produced miraculously on a cloth or mandylion (from Arabic mandil, "veil," and Latin mantele, "towel" or "napkin"). Abgar was cured, and the mandylion remained in Edessa until 544, when its magic turned back the invading Persians from the gates of the now-Christian city.

1993, Joseph Leo Koerner, “Not Made by Human Hands”, in The Moment of Self-portraiture in German Renaissance Art, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 81:

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

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

In St. Barbara in Khé, a thirteenth-century Georgian church, the Mandylion is painted on the wall behind the altar, […]

1999, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary (Monographs on the Fine Arts; 56), Seattle, Wash.: College Art Association in association with the University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 75:

We know the history of the transfer of the mandilion of Edessa to Constantinople from the text ascribed to Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913/944–959).

2007, Acta Poloniae Historica, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, →OCLC, page 37:

The mandylion became not just a holy relic but an image to be copied, either as textile or as iconographic type on a hard surface: a painted icon of a mandylion with Christ's face on it. Furthermore it became a theological prototype. Just as the mandylion bore the impression of the incarnate God on its surface and became a vessel of divine healing, so all icons bear witness to the power of matter to reveal divinity and of revealed divinity to effect eternal salvation.

2009, Artemis Leontis, Culture and Customs of Greece, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 42:

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

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

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) often Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic.

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

veronica

image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which Saint Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified


last rites

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Anointing of the Sick
Anointing of the Sick

(religion) Final treatment of a dead man.

The Catholic sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.


subdeacon

Originated 1275–1325 from Middle English subdecon and -dekene, from Late Latin subdiāconus. See sub- + deacon.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon.


Cheesefare

Cheesefare Saturday

Cheesefare Sunday

Cheesefare Week

(Orthodoxy, attributive) In the Christian Orthodox churches, the day before the Lenten fast, traditionally the last day on which cheese and other animal products may be eaten until Pascha (Easter).


Coptic

Of or pertaining to the copts, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or to the Coptic language.

kopt

of or pertaining to the Copts, Coptic Orthodox Church or to the Coptic language

ⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ m (remǹkhēmi, literally “Man of Egypt”) (bohairic)


Coptic

The Afroasiatic language traditionally spoken by the Copts in Egypt, now extinct and used only as a liturgical language.


Greek Orthodox

Of or relating to the Greek Orthodox Church

græsk-ortodoks

of or relating to the Greek Orthodox Church


Tasbeha

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A worship service in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, consisting of praises glorifying God taken from the Psalms and other Biblical sources and often chanted with a simple musical accompaniment of cymbals and triangle.


terce

terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.


Hesychast

From Medieval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).

(ecclesiastical history) A monk of the Orthodox Catholic Church that engages in noetic prayer.


sakkos

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.

When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 515:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).


ustav

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic оуставъ (ustavŭ). Cognate of устав in modern Bulgarian and modern Russian.

While most of the service books are employed only in the conduct of public devotion, the psalter and the ustav are widely read works that are found in every household. —David Scheffel, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.


Greek Orthodox Church

A group of Eastern Orthodox churches comprising the churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Greece.


ascesis

ascesis (countable and uncountable, plural asceses)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ascesis, or directly from its etymon, Ancient Greek ἄσκησις (áskēsis, “exercise, training”), from ἀσκέω (askéō, “to exercise, practise, train”) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process).

bor

And this we do find in the Basilican, the Byzantine, and the Romanesque architectures, each more perfect than another, and each lacking in an ever diminishing degree much of the perfect holiness of the Saint of "the most high,"—they came and passed away like different periods in the askesis of a holy soul aiming after the perfection of the spiritual life, and truly therefore they are Christian.

1845 March, “On the Nomenclature of Christian Architecture”, in The Ecclesiologist, volume I (New Series; volume IV overall), number II, Cambridge: John Thomas Walters […]; London: F[rancis] & J[ohn] Rivington […], →OCLC, page 50:

Saint Anthony the Great described a process of purifying the nous by eliminating the disturbances aroused in it by thoughts, feelings, images, imitative movements—all the things that have been unconsciously taken in and remembered by the personality. [...] To achieve this illumination and separation requires a special kind of effort, and this is the real nature of ascesis, noetic ascesis for the enlightening of the nous.

1995, Robin Amis, “The Eye of the Soul”, in A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN; republished Chicago, Ill., South Brent, Devon: Praxis Institute Press, 2003, →ISBN, page 184:

The virtues to be attained through ascesis are Christ’s virtues, not our own, and theosis is always granted, never achieved by the individual. This connects the ascetic life essentially with the eucharistic ethos: we offer to God only what we receive from him; […]

2006, John D. Zizioulas, “On Being Other: Towards an Ontology of Otherness”, in Paul McPartlan, editor, Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church, London, New York, N.Y.: T&T Clark, published 2009, →ISBN, section V.3.e (Otherness and the Ascetic Ethos), page 84:

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, specifically) The praxis or "exercise" of asceticism and self-denial of impulses or passions for the sake of piety, theosis, and connection with God.

ascesi

(rigorous) self-discipline — see also asceticism

aszkézis

praxis or “exercise” of asceticism and self-denial of impulses or passions


Eastern Orthodoxy

The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.


menologe

From French ménologe, from Latin mēnologium, q.v. Doublet of menologion, menologium, and menology.

doublet

(rare) Synonym of menologium, a monthly record, particularly in certain Christian contexts


menaion

From New Latin mēnaion, from Ancient Greek μηναῖος (mēnaîos, “lunar”).

der

The annual fixed liturgical cycle of services used in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, containing a list of the services and large collection of liturgical texts for an entire month. Twelve volumes are usually offered for the year, as a set known as the menaia.

General Menaion

a book which contains services for each type of celebration with blank spaces for the name of the saint being celebrated.

Festal Menaion

an anthology which contains the texts for those Great Feasts of the Lord

the Theotokos which fall on the fixed cycle

and optionally feasts of the major saints


menology

Partially from meno- (“month-”) + -ology (“study, account”) and partially from anglicization of Medieval Latin mēnologium and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), q.v. Doublet of menologion, menologium, and menologe.

doublet

In the Mart. of Donegal, this is the day of St. Comgall (Comhgall), placed in the Menology on the 27th June, as having no day.

1892, Richard Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales..., p. 645

The menology of the tenth century has the formula ...

1935, Stephen Langdon, Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars, page 86:

The duration of the rites of mourning over nine days is... supported by references in a Standard Babylonian menology...

2003, Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic..., p. 53

The Menology of St Symeon mostly repeats earlier accounts but includes some small additions as well.

(often capitalized) Synonym of menologium, a monthly record, particularly in Assyriology and certain Christian contexts.


Menologium

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

Alternative letter-case form of menologium, particularly in reference to (Eastern Orthodoxy) specific editions of the menaia or synaxaria or (Roman Catholicism) biographical records of members of religious orders.


Copt

From French copte, from قُبْط (qobṭ, “Copts”), from Coptic ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ (guptios, “Egyptian”), ⲕⲩⲡⲧⲁⲓⲟⲥ (kuptaios, “Egyptian”), from Late Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios), from earlier Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian Hwt-t:O1-kA:Z1-p:t-H-A40 (ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ, “Egypt; temple of Ptah's ka”). Doublet of Gypsy. More at Egypt.


horologion

From Byzantine Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion, “book of hours”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time period, hour”) + λόγιον (lógion, “record; measuring device”), from λόγος (lógos) + -ιον (-ion). Doublet of horologe and horologium. See menologion.

der

The Orthodox horologion is roughly equivalent to the Catholic breviary.

(Christianity) A liturgical book containing the daily offices of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.


Russian Orthodox Church

One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

Russies-Ortodokse Kerk

one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches

الكَنِيسَة الرُوسِيَّة الأُرْثُوذُكْسِيَّة


artos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, “leavened loaf”), probably from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀵 (a-to), from the compound word 𐀀𐀵𐀡𐀦 (a-to-po-qo, “bakers”). Compare Greek αρτοποιός (artopoiós, “baker”).

bor

(Eastern Orthodoxy) a loaf of leavened bread that is blessed during services in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic churches.


Hesychast controversy

(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.


ecphonesis

en-noun

ecphonesis (usually uncountable, plural ecphoneses)

From Ancient Greek ἐκφώνησις (ekphṓnēsis, “pronunciation, exclamation”).

der

(Greek Orthodox Christianity) The part of the service spoken in an audible tone.


Theotokos

/θiːˈɒtəˌkɒs/

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

bor+

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

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

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

Hyjlindëses

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


antidoron

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

der

ἀντί + δῶρον

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


kontakion

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion).

bor+

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

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

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

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

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


proskynesis

From Ancient Greek προσκύνησις (proskúnēsis).

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

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

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

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

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


theosis

tlb

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, theology)

/θiːˈəʊ.sɪs/

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

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

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

The likeness to or union with God; deification.


acheiropoieton

/eɪˈkaɪɹəʊpɔɪˌiːtən/

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

bor

ἀχειροποίητον

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ხელთუქმნელი ხატი

religious image believed not to have been created by human hands


orthros

Ancient Greek ὄρθρος (órthros, “daybreak”).

uder

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


Raskolnik

en-noun

Raskolnik (plural Raskolniks or Raskolniki)

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

bor

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


haikal

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


archidiaconal

/ɑːkɪdaɪˈækənəl/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Pertaining to an archdeacon.


eparch

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

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

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

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


koliva

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

uder

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


diskos

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

doublet

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


omphalopsychite

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

bor+

ὀμφαλοψυχίτης


protopope

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

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Byzantine Catholicism) A protopresbyter


stauropegic

(of an Eastern Orthodoxy or Eastern Catholicism monastery) Stauropegial.


stauropegial

From Byzantine Greek σταυροπηγία (stauropēgía), from σταυρός (staurós, “cross”) (Greek σταυρός (stavrós)) + πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “secure, fix, fasten”).

uder

(of an Eastern Orthodoxy or an Eastern Catholic monastery, church or brotherhood) Subordinated directly to the primate of the church (e.g. the patriarch) or the synod rather than to a local bishop.


book of hours

From the books' usual division of prayers according to the canonical hours.

(Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the equivalent of the breviary in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.


God the Holy Ghost

That which were a dishonour to God the Son, were a dishonour to God the holy Ghost.

1645, G. Gillespie, Nihil Respondes, section 11:

(Christianity theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly, inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either (Eastern Orthodoxy) from God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


your Grace

Forms of address
Forms of address in the United Kingdom

(especially Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity) Used in direct address to bishops, although in British English sometimes only granted to the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in Ireland.

my Lord Duke

to dukes, now only common in correspondence


Josephite

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.zəˌfaɪt/

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.səˌfaɪt/

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel

A student or alumnus of St Joseph's College, Allahabad.

A member of Josephites-CJ, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Belgium.

A member of the Josephite Fathers, a Roman Catholic religious order originally established to minister to African Americans, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

A member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.


cenobiarch

Simplification of coenobiarch, from Latin coenobiarcha (“abbot”), from Koine Greek κοινοβιάρχης (koinobiárkhēs, “abbot”), from κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “cenobium, monastery”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”) + -ης (-ēs).

der

κοινοβιάρχης

(often Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) The leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.


artophorion

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The tabernacle on the high altar in an Eastern Orthodox church


starets

An elder of a monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church who functions as an adviser and teacher.

starec

an elder of a monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church who functions as an adviser and teacher


great martyr

Calque of Ancient Greek μεγαλομάρτυς (megalomártus).

calque

μεγαλομάρτυς

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A saint who was martyred after suffering great torture.

велікаму́чанік

a saint who was martyred after suffering great torture


protopriest

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of protopresbyter.


troparion

en-noun

troparion (plural troparions or troparia)

Coordinate term: apolytikion

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

(Eastern Orthodoxy, music) A short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.


synaxarion

Ancient Greek συναξάριον (sunaxárion), from συνάγειν (sunágein, “to bring together”).

(Christianity) A compilation of hagiographies in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.


Hesychasm

The religious practices of the Hesychasts.


archeparchy

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The archdiocese of an archbishop in Eastern Christendom


archeparch

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The archbishop of an archeparchy.


archeparchate

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An archeparchy, or archdiocese of an archbishop.


rantistirion

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ῥαντιστήριον (rhantistḗrion), from ῥαντίζω (rhantízō) (a late form of ῥαίνω (rhaínō, “to sprinkle, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *weri) + -ῐον (-ion, “suffix forming diminutive nouns”).

bor

ῥαντιστήριον

The Kastrinsios was charged with military duties and was responsible for a military unit (similar to that of a captain of the guard). When the Office became ecclesiastical in nature it was charged with the storage and safe keeping of ecclesiastical supplies and assisted in the vesting of the hierarchs. He would also bestow the divine blessing upon the congregation by sprinkling from the randistirion, and proclaim the arrival of His All Holiness the Patriarch with, "Evlogison Thespota" (Master Give The Blessing).

2001, Aspasia Smith, editor, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, millennium edition, New York, N.Y.: Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, →OCLC, page 72:

The priest stands in front of the Kouvouklion throughout the Encomia. At the Third Stasis when the verse "Eranan ton Tafon ai miroforoi mira lian proi elthousai – early in the morning the myrrh-bearers came to Thee and sprinkled myrrh upon Thy tomb" is sung the priest sprinkles the Epitaphios with rosewater, using the rantistirion (sprinkler).

[2003], Alkiviadis Calivas, “Great and Holy Saturday”, in Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, archived from the original on 2017-05-23:

After joining with Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos and Deacon Eleftherios Constantine in chanting the "Feast of the Cross" – "The cross is the glory of the angels, and the defeat of the demons" – Archbishop Demetrios sanctified the steel cross with water from a golden rantistirion, or sprinkler.

2016 November 29, David W. Dunlap, “Cross takes its place, temporarily, atop shrine at World Trade Center”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-07-11:

Archbishop Demetrios joined Deacon Eleftherios Constantine and Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos in chanting "Feast of the Cross." The Archbishop then sanctified this steel cross with water poured from a golden sprinkler or rantistirion.

2016 November 30, Nathan Glover, “Christian cross tops Saint Nicholas National Shrine at World Trade Center”, in World Religion News, archived from the original on 2016-12-02:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A ritual sprinkler used in some Christian rites.


rushnyk

From Belarusian рушні́к (rušník), ручні́к (ručník) or Ukrainian рушни́к (rušnýk).

A cloth/towel embroidered with symbols and cryptograms of the ancient world, used in Eastern Slavic ceremonies.


All Holiness

Calque of Greek Παναγιότατος (Panagiótatos).

calque

Παναγιότατος

Ecumenical Patriarch
Ecumenical Patriarch

(Eastern Orthodoxy, countable) Used in connection with His or Your to address to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the metropolitan bishop of Thessaloniki.

Παναγιότατος

used to address certain archbishops and bishops


chotki

From Russian чётки (čótki, “prayer beads, rosary”).


komboskini

From Greek κομποσκοίνι (komposkoíni, “prayer rope”).

(Christianity) A rope of usually 33, 50 or 100 knots, used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, to count one's recitations of the Jesus Prayer.


ruchnik

From Russian ручни́к (ručník) or Belarusian ручні́к (ručník).


fall asleep in the Lord

en-verb

fall asleep in the Lord (third-person singular simple present falls asleep in the Lord, present participle falling asleep in the Lord, simple past fell asleep in the Lord, past participle fallen asleep in the Lord)

falls asleep in the Lord (present singular third-person)
falling asleep in the Lord (participle present)
fell asleep in the Lord (past)
fallen asleep in the Lord (participle past)

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, poetic, euphemistic) To die.


orarion

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

A deacon's stole in the Eastern Orthodox Church.


black clergy

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


archeparchial

From archeparch + -ial or archeparchy + -al.

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to an archeparchy


His Eminence

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorific style for an archbishop


synthronon

en-noun

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.


holy fool

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation.

fol-en-Christ

person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation


Great Feasts

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, of which three are movable and nine are fixed.

Douze Grandes Fêtes

twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church


Great Hours

A particularly solemn celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church, occurring thrice a year: on the Eve of the Nativity, the Eve of Theophany, and Great Friday.

صَلَاة السَّاعَات الْكَبِيرَة

a particularly solemn celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church


Bulgarian Orthodox Church

the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (canonical)

One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.


Georgian Orthodox Church

the Georgian Orthodox Church (canonical)

sakartvelos samocikulo avṭoḳepaluri martlmadidebeli eḳlesia

საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია


Syriac Orthodox Church

An Oriental Orthodox church branched from the Church of Antioch.

الكنيسة السريانية الأرثوذكسية

Oriental Orthodox church centered in Syria

ܥܺܕܬܳܐ ܣܽܘ̣ܪܝܳܝܬܳܐ ܗܰܝܡܳܢܽܘܬܳܐ ܬܪܺܝܨܰܬ ܫܽܘ̣ܒ̣ܚܳܐ


Radonitsa

From Russian Ра́доница (Rádonica), literally "Day of Rejoicing". See also Russian рад (rad, “joyful”).

In the Russian Orthodox Church, a commemoration of the departed observed on the second Tuesday or second Monday of Pascha (Easter).


onomatodox

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to, supporting or advocating onomatodoxy.


Taboric

We could recite here account after account of these Ultimate experiences, […] the visions of God as the divine Taboric Glory, God of light.

2008, April D. DeConick, “Mysticism and the Gospel of Thomas”, in Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung – Rezeption – Theologie:

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Comparable or pertaining to the Transfiguration of Jesus, traditionally believed to have taken place at Mount Tabor.


onomatodoxy

Borrowed from Russian ономатодо́ксия (onomatodóksija), from Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + δόξα (dóxa, “glory”), meaning “name-glorification”. Compare Russian имясла́вие (imjaslávije).

bor

ономатодо́ксия

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine that the name of God is God himself.


Barlaamite

[…] but in the next age the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.

1788, Edward Gibbon, “Civil Wars and the Ruin of the Greek Empire. Part II”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Supporting or pertaining to the theologian Barlaam of Seminara, especially his opposition to Hesychasm.


Barlaamite

At the End of the Age, arose the Question of Thaboretick Light, betwixt the Barlaamites and Palamites; which is agitated with great Heat in Synods, with Anathema's and biting Libels; as if they were striving for the chief Articles of Faith, and as if the whole of Religion consisted in such Trifles.

1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church […], page 121:

I have been accused repeatedly over the past eight hours of being a Barlaamite.

2012 October 15, Joseph Suaiden, “Your Editor Accused of Heresy on the “Orthodox-Tradition” Yahoo Group”, in NFTU:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An advocate of Barlaamite views, an opponent of Hesychasm.


onomatoclast

From onomato- (back-formation from onomatodoxy) + -clast, by analogy with iconoclast, from Byzantine Greek κλάω (kláō, “to break”).

af

back-formation from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">onomatodoxy</i>

[…] they at first were unable to present to the onomatoclasts the teaching concerning the divinity of the Name of God that they knew through their experience of prayer, but were not always able to articulate in words.

2001, Tatiana Senina, “The Divine Name Controversy”, in History, Bible, Science:

According to the self-proclaimed apologists of imjaslavie the onomatoclasts, in rejecting the divinity of the revealed names and God's undivided presence therein, sided with Palamas's opponent Barlaam of Calabria, who had denied the full divinity of God's energies and their inseparability from His essence.

2014, Lara Sels, “Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium and Onomatodoxy in Russian Theology”, in Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium III: An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies, page 665:

An onomatoclast sees a face as a mere mask, perceives an icon as piece of wood and hears a name as an empty sound.

2015, Paweł Rojek, “Onomatodoxy and the Problem of Constitution: Florensky on Scientific and Manifest Images of the World”, in Faith and Reason in Russian Thought, page 107:

(rare, Eastern Orthodoxy, derogatory) An opponent of onomatodoxy.


Great Church

Celsus
Contra Celsum
Great Church
Origen

Calque of Koine Greek μεγάλη ἐκκλησία (megálē ekklēsía). In sense of “orthodox Christian church”, cf. Celsus (2nd century) describing mainstream Christian believers, quoted in Origen, Contra Celsum, 5.59: “Σαφῶς γε τῶν ἀπὸ μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας τοῦτο ὁμολογούντων […] ” (“Certainly, the members of the Great Church agree […] ”).

calque

μεγάλη ἐκκλησία

lang

1968, Steven Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence:

Central Europe and eastern Europe (Muscovy/Russia) came under the jurisdiction of the so-called Great Church, or Patriarchate of Constantinople (the New Rome)

2002, Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe, revised edition, page 1907:

The Great Church managed to regain its essentially ecumenical character that was challenged in the Middle Ages by the ecclesiastical independence of Ohrid, Peć and Tărnovo.

2010, Eleonora Naxidou, “The Transition from Ecumenical Tradition to a Multinational Perspective: The Historical Evolution of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire”, in Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe Between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699–1829, page 149:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.


Christotokos

From Koine Greek Χριστοτόκος (Khristotókos, “Christ-bearer”), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth, bearer”).

bor

(Christianity) Synonym of Mother of God, Mary, mother of Jesus, in her role as the mother of the Messiah, particularly in Greek contexts.


menological

From menologium, menologion, &c. + -ical (“forming adjectives”). Equivalent to meno- + logical.

Of or related to a menologium in its various senses.


His Beatitude

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorific title given to patriarchs


Albanian Orthodox Church

the Albanian Orthodox Church (canonical)

An autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.


nabedrennik

A vestment worn by some priests in the Russian Orthodox Church: a square or rectangular cloth worn at the right hip, suspended from a strap.


asterikos

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy) A metal cross that is placed over the diskos to prevent the veil from touching the host.


myrrhbearer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Saint Christopher

From Christopher. In reference to the Caribbean island, a calque of Spanish San Cristóbal. Doublet of San Cristobal and Saint Kitts.

doublet

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Saint Christopher of Trebizond.


swim the Bosphorus

en-verb

swim the Bosphorus (third-person singular simple present swims the Bosphorus, present participle swimming the Bosphorus, simple past swam the Bosphorus, past participle swum the Bosphorus)

swims the Bosphorus (present singular third-person)
swimming the Bosphorus (participle present)
swam the Bosphorus (past)
swum the Bosphorus (participle past)

Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of Istanbul's river Bosphorus for Rome's river Tiber.

(intransitive) To convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.


protopresbyter

Borrowed from Greek πρωτοπρεσβύτερος (protopresvýteros). By surface analysis, proto- (“first”) + presbyter.

bor+

πρωτοπρεσβύτερος

surf

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An archpriest or, in the Russian Orthodox tradition, a non-monastic priest ranking higher yet than an archpriest.


phyletism

Borrowed from Greek φυλετισμός (fyletismós), from φυλέτης (fylétis, “tribesman”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”).

bor+

Its progress in the past years shows that the heresy of phyletism is bound to rescind and that all those who really desire Orthodox unity—without losing anything which is precious and positive in their ethnic traditions—will join us in our common Orthodox witness to the world of today.

1977 May, John Meyendorff, “Blind Phyletism”, in The Vision of Unity, published 1987, →ISBN, page 77:

[Soloviev] lamented that phyletism, the division of the church along ethnic, national, or linguistic lines, had become Orthodoxy’s governing ecclesiology despite its official condemnation in 1872.

2017, A. Edward Siecienski, The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate, →ISBN, page 375:

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872.


Menologion

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

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


menologion

en-noun

menologion (plural menologions or menologia)

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

doublet

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

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

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


menologium

en-noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

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

ménologe

a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts

menology

chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact

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

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

menaion

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

synaxarium

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


Pokrova

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

Intercession of the Theotokos (feast on 14 October)


ypakoë

/ˌuːpəkəʊˈiː/

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

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


hypodeacon

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

cal

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of subdeacon.


Intercession of the Theotokos

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

Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary

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


undern-song

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


star-cover

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


myrrhbearing

(Eastern Orthodoxy) In relation to the burial of Jesus, bearing myrrh.


myrrh-bearing

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Alternative form of myrrhbearing