pseudocardinal

Other writers […] conclude that[…] Gregory remained long enough not only to be reinstated at the Lateran palace, but also to reform certain flagrant abuses, and order the expulsion of pseudo-cardinals nominated by the Antipope.

1869, Charles Isidore Hemans, A History of Mediaeval Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy: A.D. 900-1350, page 119:

It owes its origin to the schism which Alexander V. attempted to heal in 1409 by forming one body of his own (the legitimate) and of the pseudocardinals of the anti-pope Benedict XIII.

At the same time, however, he instructed his envoys to Paris to explain to the dukes that cession without a determination of rights could lead to something far worse than schism, namely ‘to adore an idol on earth’ — a pope elected by pseudo-cardinals.

1995, Timothy Reuter, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 688:

He was created cardinal by Antipope Felix V, thus he would be considered by some as a ‘pseudocardinal’ […]

2013, Franz Posset, Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of 1489: An Approach to His Biblical Hermeneutics, →ISBN, page 26:

Frederick warned Hugh not to receive the former papal chancellor, who was an enemy of the Reich, his pseudo-cardinals, or any of his envoys[…]

2016 January 1, John B. Freed, Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 304:

According to the vita, Ursulina was readily received by the “antipope,” having been aided by an introduction from the “pseudocardinal” Pierre du Puy. The pope received her alone, and she threatened him with hell unless he abdicated.

2017, Yvonne Friedman, Religion and Peace: Historical Aspects, Routledge, →ISBN:

(historical, ecclesiastical, chiefly in medieval and early modern history) A cardinal appointed by an antipope and consequently seen as illegitimate by the pope and those who recognize him.


ubiquitism

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.

1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:

This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.

1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:

She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.

2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:

(theology, Christianity) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.


allegorism

en-noun

allegorism (usually uncountable, plural allegorisms)

He goes so far as to affirm that in Scripture 'all has a spiritual meaning, but not everything has a literal meaning' (De princ. 2,3,5). We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.

2000, Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis Vol 2: The Four Senses Of Scripture, page 277:

The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy.

2007, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, Encyclopaedia Judaica - Volume 3, page 645:

(theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.


profession of faith

profession of faith (plural professions of faith)

(religion) A creed; a (typically formulaic) statement of the beliefs of one's religion, often recited during public prayers or liturgies.

(religion, Christianity, specifically) A formulaic declaration asserting the orthodoxy of one's beliefs, usually made at baptism, entry into a particular Church, or upon the acceptance of an ecclesial office, and typically including the recitation of a creed.

profession de foi

formulaic declaration asserting one's orthodoxy


Lut

Borrowed from Arabic لُوط (lūṭ), ultimately from Hebrew לוֹט (lot). Doublet of Lot.

And to Lut, too, We gave Judgment and Knowledge, and We saved him from the town which practised abominations: truly they were a people given to Evil, a rebellious people.

1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, transl., The Holy Qur'an, 21:74:

The Prophet Lut, the Prophet Ibrahim's nephew, lived in the city of Sodom located on the western shore of the Dead Sea.

2010, Mary Saad Assel, 25 Icons of Peace in the Qur'an: Lessons of Harmony, New York: iUniverse, page 56:


Gokuraku

(Buddhism) The abode of Amitabha Buddha; heaven, paradise.


high place

[…] Jehoſaphat took avvay the high places, and in the third year of his reign ſent ſome of his Princes, and of the Prieſts and Levites, to teach in the cities of Judah: […]

a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Introduction Concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), page 3:


Zoar

Mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 19:22, 23, and 30 as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death, when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. From Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, “insignificance, smallness”). Was present in Old English as Sægor.
The settlement in Labrador was founded by Moravian missionaries. Compare Hebron, Hopedale, Nain and Ramah.

m+

And Lot lifted vp his eyes, and beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where before the Lord destroyed Sodome and Gomorah, euen as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou commest vnto Zoar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 13:10:

(biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.


Hanbali

en-adj

Hanbali (comparative more Hanbali, superlative most Hanbali)

more Hanbali (comparative)
most Hanbali (superlative)

From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -i.

(Islam) Pertaining to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.


Hanbali

(Islam) Someone who adheres to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.


dharma talk

I'd never given a dharma talk before, much less in the local Lao dialect, to hundreds of people. I just got up there, and he said, "Tell them what you know of the dharma, go to it."

2011, Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are:

It is important to note that a dharma talk is not a lecture, although it has a didactic purpose. Such a talk is given usually as an accompaniment to a period of meditation.

2014 February 19, Charles R. Strain, The Prophet and the Boddhisattva: Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Ethics of Peace and Justice, Wipf and Stock Publishers:

(Buddhism) A public discourse by a Buddhist teacher, similar to a sermon or homily, and distinguished from a lecture by being shorter and less formal.


ESV

English Standard Version
w:English Standard Version

(biblical) Initialism of English Standard Version.


Daggial

(Islam, obsolete) Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, an evil figure in Islamic eschatology.


Nagarjuna

(Buddhism) Second century philosopher credited with founding a school of Buddhism.


eucology

en-noun

eucology (usually uncountable, plural eucologies)

From Ancient Greek εὐχή (eukhḗ, “prayer”) + -logy.

suffix

(religion, countable) A book of prayers and benedictions.


opus operantis

(religion) The spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite that is ascribed chiefly or exclusively to the disposition of the recipient.


Bokononism

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle in 1963. Named after the religion's alleged founder, Bokonon + -ism.

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How tough can it be to know once you've found the right one? As long as you're not somewhere that has made Bokononism illegal, couldn't you just put your feet together?

1997 March 13, the tree by the river, “Re: Still looking for your Soulmate? We can help!”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

Because there isn't any, and I can't think of any possible reason that there need be any. Thus I have assumed that there is no god. The difference is that since there *can be* no evidence of it, I must admit that I can not really know the answer. In my case, that is grounds for agnosticism (or Bokononism really). In the case of many others, faith takes over.

2000 May 8, m. brazeau, “Re: help me refute a theist”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Whatever wackadoodle philosophy you might be embracing today – frutarianism or Bokononism – is cool as long as it doesn’t hurt those around you, right? ¶ Refusing to immunize puts the rest of us at risk. And unless there is sound science and the guidance of a good doctor, it’s a pretty bogus way to hedge a bet in that game of parenting roulette.

2015 January 26, Petula Dvorak, “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk”, in The Washington Post:

(fiction, religion) In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.


bokono

(religion) An exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.


Mucker

(historical, religion) A follower of the religious teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1770–1826) and Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861).


Vaticanize

en-verb

Vaticanize (third-person singular simple present Vaticanizes, present participle Vaticanizing, simple past and past participle Vaticanized)

Vaticanizes (present singular third-person)
Vaticanizing (participle present)
Vaticanized (participle past)
Vaticanized (past)

But we have here no attempt to Vaticanize the Celtic Church.

1912, Princeton Theological Review, volume 10, page 148:

(transitive, religion) To make to conform to the religious principles and practices of the Vatican.


polydemonism

(religion) The existence of multiple demons; the worship of these demons


Auramazda

Though the king was thus above all human law, he felt himself bound to recognize the higher or divine law of Auramazda.

1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 228:


Qasim

(Islam) Qasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.


nibbana

en-noun

nibbana (countable and uncountable, plural nibbanas)

Transliteration of Pali nibbāna, from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa).


Sandersian

(religion) Of or pertaining to E. P. Sanders (born 1937), American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".


Aduwallah

Borrowed from Arabic عَدُوّ الله (ʕaduww allāh).

bor+

(Islam) Enemy of the God; Satan; nickname of Iblis.


Ansar

From Arabic أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers”).

(Islam, historical) A group of tribespeople, living in Madinah, who gave aid and protection to the prophet Mohammed and his followers.


cardiognosticism

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cardiognosticism.

(spiritualism) Mystical knowledge of, or the ability to know, a person's heart (thoughts and feelings).


tasbih

(Islam) A form of dhikr that involves the repetitive utterances of short sentences in glorification of Allah in Islam by saying "Subḥānallāh" (glorified is Allah).


Nar as-samum

(Islam) a demon in Ancient Arabic lore and later Islamic beliefs; meaning fire of scorching winds.


Marcion

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃʌ̈ʊ̯n/

From Late Latin Mārciōn (from Koine Greek Μᾱρκῑ́ων (Mārkī́ōn, diminutive of Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos, from Mārcus (from Mārs + -cus)))), from Old Latin Māvors and Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

der

(Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, history) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible


hyper-Calvinism

(theology) A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.


ecumaniac

(religion, derogatory) A person of excessively ecumenical views.


sacerdotage

(religion, derogatory) Excessive sacerdotalism; focus on priests to the exclusion of other aspects of religion.


tri-omni

en-adj

tri-omni (comparative more tri-omni, superlative most tri-omni)

more tri-omni (comparative)
most tri-omni (superlative)

(religion, of a deity) Omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.


overnegation

Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.

1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80:


everlasting life

For God ſo loued yͤ world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whoſoeuer beleeueth in him , ſhould not periſh, but haue euerlaſting life. (John 3:16, King James Version)

(religion) Eternal life; life after death.


samvega

en-noun

samvega (countable and uncountable, plural samvegas)

Transliteration of Sanskrit संवेग (saṃvega, “desire for emancipation”).

translit

(Buddhism) Dismay at the futility of life as normally lived; a sense of urgency to escape the cycle of samsara and achieve nirvana.


muwaqqit

(Islam) An Islamic timekeeper who uses astronomy to determine prayer times.


Apam Napat

(Zoroastrianism) One of the Ahura triad of the Avestan tradition.


akhi

Borrowed from Arabic أَخِي (ʔaḵiy, “my brother”).

(Islam, MLE, slang) Brother; a close male friend or associate.


reclamatory

Equivalent to reclaim (“return land to a suitable condition for use; claim back, repossess; return someone to a proper course of action, reform; cry out in opposition or contradiction”) + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory.

2. Evangelism; efforts to secure reclamatory conversions. 3. Missionary activities; at home and abroad.

1921, George Herbert Betts, The New Program of Religious Education, page 81:

With much that the author has to say we could very heartily agree, as, for example, the following, "religious education seeks to save the need for a reclamatory conversion, and in its stead to substitute a gradual and natural spiritual growth […]"

For them conversion is a necessary step in coming to God. They must return to moral sanity and say, "I will arise and go to my Father." While religious education seeks to make reclamatory conversion unnecessary by preventing the estrangement from God, religious educators should always recognize the need of effort to reclaim and then to train those whom the processes of nurture have either hever had a chance to win, or have failed in their effort to win.

1932, James Elmer Russell, The Up-to-date Sunday School: Its Organization and Administration, page 20:

But if conversion and religious education both aim at the same kind of spiritual release, wherein do they fundamentally differ? […] If vital growth in spiritual life vacates the need for a reclamatory conversion, we shall certainly not regret it.

1938, Torney Otto Nall, Vital Religion: A Crusading Church Faces Its Third Century:

(religion, archaic) Reformative, corrective; (of a conversion) representing a return to orthodox religious faith and behavior.


Al-Shaytaan

bor

Arabic الشَيْطَان (aš-šayṭān)


purposivism

(philosophy, religion) philosophy, especially religious, that treats will or conscious intent as a basal fact


druj

(Zoroastrianism) Deceit, falsehood, lie.


morning prayer

(religion) The first of the two services of the Anglican Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of matins, lauds and prime.


Jabal

der

Hebrew יוּבָל (yå̄ḇå̄l)

(biblical, Torah) The son of Lamech and Ada.


Naamah

(biblical) A descendant of Cain, daughter of Lamech and Zillah.


Tubal-cain

From Hebrew תּוּבַל קַיִן (tūḇal qayin).

uder

תּוּבַל קַיִן

(biblical, Torah) A descendant of Cain. The son of Lamech and Zillah.


Jubal

(biblical, Torah) A son of Lamech and Ada.


Mashallah

From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah).

bor

مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه

Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah)

At this early stage of the narrative, this manner of describing Mashallah's state of mind foreshadows a more radical loss of self, i.e., a journey that transforms him from an ordinary and insignificant bank guard to a visitor to the court of Harun...

2015, Nasrin Rahimieh, Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 19:

Mashallah, the cook, housekeeper and moral guardian of the family, had a different relationship with each of us. For Achim he felt deep respect, with some distance; he was jealous of Marianne, fearing for his sovereignty in the domestic sphere;...

2006, Irene Gill, Oma, Mu and Me, APS Publishing:

مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه
ما شاء الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah, “God willed it”)


Bismillah

/ˌbɪsmɪˈlɑː/

From Arabic بِاسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”)

بِاسْمِ اللّٰه

‘Bismillah!’ he exclaimed. ‘I call all here to witness that Rashîd, the son of Ali, called the Fair, is free henceforth to go what way he chooses.’

1918, Marmaduke Pickthall, Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., page 25:

Thus recitation of Bismillah creates a sort of firm conviction in the existence of Allah, and also develops the sense of gratitude, in the mind of the servant of Allah, for all that Allah has provided for him.

1984, Syed Anwer Ali, Qurʼan, the Fundamental Law of Human Life: Surat ul-Faateha to Surat-ul-Baqarah (sections 1-21):

On the night before his execution he calls God in Arabic - "Bismillah" - and so regains his soul from Satan.

2011 June 15, “Smashed Hits: What is a Bohemian Rhapsody?”, in BBC:

(Islam) In the name of Allah! Used in belief of blessing the speaker's imminent action, especially prior to eating and drinking; sometimes used as an apotropaic.

In Bismillah, Allah has chosen to mention only two of His attributes, Rahman and Rahim, out of all His numerous attributes and the verse does not mention any other Divine attribute;...

2004, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Commentary on the Holy Quran: Surah Fatiha, Islam International, →ISBN, page 44:

(Islam) The basmala; the phrase Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim (“in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate”).


Bismillah

/ˌbɪsmɪˈlɑː/

بِاسْمِ اللّٰه

It was only at the age of six years when Bismillah was sent to Varanasi to stay with his maternal uncle, Ali Baksh, who himself was a great musician and played shehnai in the premises of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.

2020, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN:

بِاسْمِ اللَّه
باسم الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic بِاسْمِ اللَّه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”)


basmala

en-noun

basmala (countable and uncountable, plural basmalas)

The basmala, also known as the tasmiya, is an Arabic word for the phrase bi- smillah ir-rahman ir-rahim, “In the name of God most compassionate, most merciful.” This is the first verse of the Quran; it begins all of its chapters but one (Q9)...

2009, Juan Eduardo Campo, Encyclopedia of Islam, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

But only Kufa and Mecca counted the basmala in al-Fatiha as verse 1, whereas the readers of Basra, Damascus and Medina did not count the basmala as a separate verse but achieved the number of seven verses by subdividing other...

2006, Oliver Leaman, The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 116:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم#Arabic

(Islam, countable) The prepositional phrase بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm, “In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate”).

(Islam, uncountable) The act of uttering Bismillah.


preacherman

Shortly after, the preacherman moved to the Corporate Area where he founded a Zion Revival church, St Michael’s Revival Apostolic Tabernacle where, until his death in February 1989, he was the patriarchal bishop.

2019 July 20, Paul H. Williams, “The Kapo Factor”, in Jamaica Gleaner:


Sumana

(Buddhism) The name of the 7th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vajraratna

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Piyadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 16th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Revata

(Buddhism) The name of the 8th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Saraṇaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 3rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Atthadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 17th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Medhaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 2nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vessabhū

(Buddhism) The name of the 24th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Anomadassi

(Buddhism) The name of the 10th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vajrapāramitā

From Sanskrit वज्रपारमिता (vajrapāramitā).


Mandāravā

(Buddhism) A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.


Supuṣpacandra

From Sanskrit सुपुष्पचन्द्र (supuṣpacandra).

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सुपुष्पचन्द्र


Koṇāgamana

(Buddhism) The name of the 26th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyasamudgata

From Sanskrit भैषज्यसमुद्गत (bhaiṣajyasamudgata).

भैषज्यसमुद्गत


Akasagarbha

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism


Sobhita

(Buddhism) The name of the 9th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Paduma

(Buddhism) The name of the 11th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Vipassī

(Buddhism) The name of the 22nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Sujāta

(Buddhism) The name of the 15th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyarāja

From Sanskrit भैषज्यराज (bhaiṣajyarāja).


Siddhattha

(Buddhism) The name of the 19th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Padmasambhāva

From Sanskrit पद्मसम्भाव (padmasambhāva).


Maṅgala

(Buddhism) The name of the 6th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

មង្គលៈ

mɔɔngkɔɔlĕəʼ


Viśuddhacāritra

From Sanskrit विशुद्धचारित्र (viśuddhacāritra).

विशुद्धचारित्र


Kakusandha

(Buddhism) The name of the 25th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Sangharama

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism

(Buddhism) a monastic settlement where Sangha dwells. e.g. Valukarama of Vesali , Kukkutarama of Paliputra


Sumedha

(Buddhism) The name of the 14th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Mahāsthāmaprāpta

From Sanskrit महास्थामप्राप्त (mahāsthāmaprāpta).

महास्थामप्राप्त


Viśiṣṭacāritra

From Sanskrit विशिष्टचारित्र (viśiṣṭacāritra).

विशिष्टचारित्र


Dhammadassī

(Buddhism) The name of the 18th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Koṇḍañña

(Buddhism) The name of the 5th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

កោណ្ឌញ្ញៈ

-kaondɔɔññĕəʼ


Padumuttara

(Buddhism) The name of the 13th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Kṣitigarbha

From Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ (kṣitigarbha), literally “earth-womb”.


Sikhī

(Buddhism) The name of the 23rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Taṇhaṅkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 1st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.

តណ្ហង្ករៈ

tɑɑnhɑɑngkɑɑrĕəʼ


Samantabhadra

From Sanskrit समन्तभद्र (samantabhadra).


Dīpaṃkara

(Buddhism) The name of the 4th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Bhaiṣajyaguru

From Sanskrit भैषज्यगुरु (bhaiṣajyaguru).

(Buddhism) A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.


Vairocana

(Buddhism) a celestial Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism


Vajratīkṣṇa

From Sanskrit वज्रतीक्ष्ण (vajratīkṣṇa).


Kassapa

Transliteration of Pali कस्सप (kassapa), from Sanskrit कश्यप (kaśyapa).

(Buddhism) The name of the 27th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Phussa

(Buddhism) The name of the 21st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.


Candraprabha

From Sanskrit चन्द्रप्रभ (candraprabha).

Coordinate term: Sūryaprabha


Jambhala

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जम्भल (jambhala).

lbor

(Buddhism) a deity in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Virūpa

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विरूप (virūpa).

(Buddhism) A mahasattva in Vajrayana Buddhism.


Battabara

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit बत्तबर (battabara).


Supratiṣṭhitacāritra

From Sanskrit सुप्रतिष्ठितचारित्र (supratiṣṭhitacāritra).

bor

सुप्रतिष्ठितचारित्र

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism


Akṣayamati

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अक्षयमति (akṣayamati).


Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सर्वनिवारणविष्कम्भिन् (sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin).

lbor

सर्वनिवारणविष्कम्भिन्


Mahāpratisarā

Transliteration of Sanskrit महाप्रतिसरा (mahāpratisarā).


Mahāmāyūrī

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit महामायूरी विद्याराज्ञी (mahāmāyūrī vidyārājñī, “great peacock”), from मह (maha) + मयूर (mayūra).

bor

महामायूरी विद्याराज्ञी


Aryadeva

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अर्यदेव (aryadeva).


Kurukullā

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुरुकुल्ला (kurukullā).


kasaya

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit काषाय (kāṣāya).

(Buddhism) A monastic robe worn by ordained Buddhist monks and nuns.


Cintāmaṇicakra

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चिन्तामणिचक्र (cintāmaṇicakra).

bor

चिन्तामणिचक्र

(Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism


Anantacaritra

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अनन्तचारित्र (anantacāritra).

अनन्तचारित्र


Sadāparibhūta

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सदापरिभूत (sadāparibhūta).


Sūryaprabha

Coordinate term: Candraprabha


en-proper-noun

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints#English

(US, religion, Christianity) Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


Jewitch

(religion) A practitioner of Jewish neopaganism.


aspective

The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.

1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.

1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.

2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.


Sarpanit

(Babylonian religion) A mother goddess and the consort of the chief god, Marduk.


contrascriptural

en-adj

contrascriptural (comparative more contrascriptural, superlative most contrascriptural)

more contrascriptural (comparative)
most contrascriptural (superlative)


bhutatathata

(Buddhism) The unchanging essence of all things.


tafwiz

From Persian [Term?], from Arabic تَفْوِيض (tafwīḍ)

(Islam) The delegation of the power of divorce by the husband to the wife or any other party.


evolution of the gaps

Well, this is 'evolution-of-the-gaps.' Some scientists merely insert evolution when they don't understand something. “Look —we may not understand everything about these biological systems, but we do know some things. We do know that ...

2009, Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, Zondervan, →ISBN:

It is therefore clear how an evolution-of-the-gaps could be just as metaphysically motivated for an incautious atheist as a God-of-the-gaps could be for an incautious theist. For materialists there simply must eventually be a solution in terms of ...

2010, Michael L. Peterson, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Oxford University Press, USA:

(rare, creationism) Evolution, when used as an explanation for anything that is yet unexplained by science.


closet-chapel

(religion) a closet used for private devotion; a private or small chapel.


Abundantia

(Ancient Roman religion) A goddess of abundance and prosperity.


antiatonement

antiatonement (comparative more antiatonement, superlative most antiatonement)

more antiatonement (comparative)
most antiatonement (superlative)

(religion) Rejecting the possibility of atonement for sin.


pratityasamutpada

(Buddhism) Dependent origination: a doctrine of Buddhist philosophy stating that all dharmas arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist".


Staroobriadtsi

From Russian старообря́дцы (staroobrjádcy).

bor

старообря́дцы


kerystic

Formed on Ancient Greek κηρύσσω (kērússō, “I proclaim, I preach the gospel”).

(religion, rare) Concerning preaching, particularly preaching of the gospels.


Jophiel

From Hebrew יוֹפִיאֵל, literally "divine beauty".

Hebrew יוֹפִיאֵל

(religion) A non-canonical archangel of wisdom, understanding, and judgment, one of the Seven Archangels in Pseudo-Dionysian teachings.


barzakh

(Islam) A place separating the living from the hereafter; a phase between death and resurrection.


dakini

(Hinduism, Buddhism) A sacred female spirit.


nonabiding

(Buddhism) The practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life, except when meditating.


vinaya

(Buddhism) The rules that regulate Buddhist monastic life.


Korah

he-m

קורח / קֹרַח (kórakh)

(biblical) A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.


recording angel

en-noun

recording angel (plural recording angels)

(religion) An angel that records the events and actions of each individual human. This includes bad sins and good deeds.


unbegottenness

(theology) The quality of being unbegotten.


orthodoxism

orthodoxism (usually uncountable, plural orthodoxisms)


vowelist

(theology) One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.


Poseidonia

From Latin Poseidonia, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidōnía); or directly from Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidonía). From Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to Poseidon + -ia.

(religion, historical) An Ancient Greek festival celebrating Poseidon.


eidgah

From Persian عیدگاه (“place of Eid prayers”). See also English dargah.

(Islam, South Asia) An open-air enclosure used for Eid prayers on certain special occasions.


Elim

As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

אֵילִם אילם#Hebrew

(historical, biblical, Judaism) An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם


Elim

(biblical, Judaism) A class of angel found in Kabbalah from the Zohar.


wakaf

(Singapore, Malaysia, Islam) Alternative spelling of waqf


Elistic

From El + -istic, relative adjective to Elism.

In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name שְׁמוּאֵל (1 Sam 1:20), […]

1989, Choon-Leong Seow, Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance (Harvard Semitic Monograph; 46), Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, published 2018, →ISBN, page 30:

Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities.

2001, Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen, Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel, London • New York: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 94:

The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+<ʾīl>. […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s²rḥʾl / s²rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names.

2021, Imar Y. Koutchoukali, “12: The quantity of the vowel <i> in the Sabaic word for God (ʾl): evidence from Arabic and Greek sources”, in George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka, editors, South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity. “Out of Arabia”, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:

Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.


lectional

(ecclesiastical) Of or relating to a lection.


examination of conscience

examination of conscience (plural examinations of conscience)

(religion) A review of one's thoughts, words, actions, and omissions for the purpose of ascertaining conformity with, or deviation from, the moral law.


final reckoning

final reckoning (countable and uncountable, plural final reckonings)

From final + reckoning (“act or occasion of accounting to God after death for one’s conduct in life”).

compound

judgement day

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism) Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits”)


Hemerobaptism

(religion, historical) The religion of the Hemerobaptists.


hashiya

bor

Arabic حَاشِيَة (ḥāšiya)


Hurufism

(Islam, historical) A Sufi doctrine based on the mysticism of letters.


tree of knowledge

en-noun

tree of knowledge (countable and uncountable, plural trees of knowledge)

Meronym: forbidden fruit

Coordinate term: tree of life

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

She asked her wise rebbe how God came to be in His place, and where He found the stuff to make the world of[…]. Finding from his unsatisfying replies that the rebbe was but a barren branch on the tree of knowledge, the good little girl never betrayed to the world, by look or word, her discovery of his limitations, but continued to accord him, outwardly, all the courtesy due to his calling.

(biblical) One of the trees in the Garden of Eden.


nenbutsu

(Buddhism) The chanting of the name of Amitābha Buddha, thought to rescue the devotee to the pure land.


Udasi

(religion) A member of a religious sect of ascetics centred in northern India, who rose to prominence in the 17th century and gained control of Sikh shrines in the 18th century.


nonascertaining

(Buddhism) Of or relating to unconscious cognition, in which the mind does not engage with objects or recognize them.


getsul

(Buddhism) A novice monk in Tibetan Buddhism.


Ismahel

(biblical, Douay bible) Obsolete form of Ishmael.


mark of the beast

mark of the beast (plural marks of the beast)

From Middle English, 1350–1400; earliest use in Wycliffe's Bible. Calque of Ancient Greek χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου (kháragma toû thēríou).

calque

χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου

[And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 13:16–18:

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:1–2:

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:19–20:

'Tis much disputed who Antichrist is,
I think 'tis the Rump, nor am I in jest,
For indeed, although of the number it miss,
Of this I am sure 'thas the mark of the Beast.

1662, “Saint George for England”, in Rump: or An Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times, volume II, London: Henry Brome, Henry Marsh, →OCLC, page 126:

Now a man may be said to receive the mark of the beast in his forehead, when as a man doth worship in that form and manner, as is set up by the beast's authority willingly, then doth a man receive the mark in his forehead. And when a man receives the mark of the beast in his right hand, it is when men do worship, and bow down to that form of worship, or image set up by the beast against a man's own mind, or unwillingly, for fear he shall suffer if he do it not. This is to receive the mark of the beast in his right hand. For if the mark of the beast be not seen in the forehead, or in the right hand, they shall either be killed or not suffered to trade ; that is, to buy and sell; one of these he must be sure to suffer if he hath not the mark in either of those two places, aforesaid. That is, if the people do not come to the public worship set up by the beast, either willingly or unwillingly, it was known that they had not received the mark of the beast, neither in the forehead, nor in the right hand.

1662, Lodowicke Muggleton, A True Interpretation of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation of St. John (Religion), published 1753, page 177:

17. That no man might buy or sell—Such edicts have been published long since against the poor Vaudois; but he that had the mark, namely, the name of the first beast, or the number of his name—The name of the beast is that which he bears through his whole duration, viz. that of papa or pope. The number of his name is the whole time during which he bears this name. Whosoever therefore receives the mark of the beast, does as much as if he said expressly, " I acknowledge the present papacy as proceeding from God:" or, " I acknowledge that what St. Gregory VII. has done according to his legend, (authorized from Benedict XIII.,) and what has been maintained in virtue thereof, by his successors to this day, is from God." By the former, a man hath the name of the beast, as a mark; by the latter, the number of his name. In a word, to have the name of the beast is to acknowledge his papal holiness: to have the number of his name is to acknowledge the papal succession. The second beast will enforce the receiving this mark, under the severest penalties.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 705:

Floridalma Galvez, 34, said the calls and WhatsApp messages began weeks before any vaccine was approved, from cousins in Chicago, Florida and her native Guatemala: The vaccine was “the mark of the beast,” they told her, a reference to Satan or the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation.

2021 February 11, Teo Armus, “Among Latino immigrants, false vaccine claims are spreading as fast as the virus”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-02-12:

(theology, eschatology) a mark on the person of worshippers of the Antichrist; without the mark one cannot buy or sell.


nihilianism

(theology, Christianity) A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.


nirmanakaya

en-noun

nirmanakaya (countable and uncountable, plural nirmanakayas)

Coordinate term: sambhogakaya

(Buddhism) The third aspect of the Trikaya: the physical manifestation of a Buddha in time and space.


kiswah

(Islam) The cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.


tallapoi

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Headhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/50416/50416-h/50416-h.htm
Their Priest, which they call Tallapoi, are seeming very zealously superstitious: they somewhat incline to Mahometanism; for they pretend they will not drink wine, being forbidden it by their Law, yet are abominable hypocrites: for, though they wear a sheep-skin with the wool thereon, not suffering any hair to be on their bodies, and in shew lead a chaste life, yet I found the contrary; as you shall understand by what past between one of them and my self.


hisbah

(Islam) An Islamic doctrine that requires upholding community morals and law and order.


tazir

(Islam) Punishment for offenses at the discretion of the judge or ruler of the state; one of three major types of punishments or sanctions under sharia law.


godform

(occultism) The image or incarnation of a deity.


oldline

(religion) Of or relating to the older mainline churches of the United States.


neo-orthodoxy

(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.


Nikonite

(religion) A supporter of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the Raskol.


pantiler

From pantile + -er. Hotten suggests a derivation from the slang pantile (“hat”), because of the distinctive sugar-loaf hats worn by Puritans, or the habit of Quakers and many Dissenters of not removing their hats in a place of worship; or else from pantile (“type of roof tile”) with which the meeting-houses of Dissenters were usually covered.

(UK, religion, slang, obsolete) A preaching Dissenter.


vedana

vedana (countable and uncountable, plural vedanas)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वेदन (vedana).


gythja

(Germanic paganism) A priestess of the modern Norse religion.


Mu'tazili

en-adj

Mu'tazili (comparative more Mu'tazili, superlative most Mu'tazili)

more Mu'tazili (comparative)
most Mu'tazili (superlative)

borrowed

مُعْتَزِلِيّ

They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.

2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

(Islam, historical) Of or relating to the Mu'tazila.


Mu'tazili

مُعْتَزِلِيّ

(Islam, historical) A follower of Mu'tazili Islam.


skybook

From sky + book. Also Calque of Urdu آسمانی کتاب (asmānī kitāb, “heavenly book”), a popular term used in Pakistan for the Quran.
Referring to the belief that the Quran was first revealed by an angel to Muhammad, a prophet in Islam, so it is considered as a book from Heaven.

calque

(India, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, Islam, religious slur) the Qur'an.


fluffy bunny

en-noun

fluffy bunny (countable and uncountable, plural fluffy bunnies)

(Wicca, paganism, informal, derogatory, countable) A casual, naive practitioner of Wicca or another neo-pagan religion, especially one deemed to have a superficial understanding.


Khariji

From Arabic خارجي (“abandoner, quitter”).

His keynote speech was delivered on his arrival, incognito, in al-Kufah, which at the time was a focus of Khariji dissidence.

2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 247:

(Islam, historical) A member of an early Islamic sect who initially supported Ali but then seceded from his army; a Kharijite.


namazi

From Urdu نماز (namāz), Urdu نمازی (namāzī), and their source, Persian نماز (namâz).

(India, Pakistan, Islam) A devout Muslim.

(India, Pakistan, Islam, Internet slang, derogatory) A Muslim, especially a bigot or a religious extremist.


Jairus

From Latin Iaīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρος (Iáïros), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Jair.

der

(biblical) The father of a young girl resurrected by Jesus Christ.


godspouse

This could be just an important conversation or something as formal and intense as a marriage to a mortal godspouse. Occasionally it will involve an […]

2009, Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera, Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Anya Kless is a dual-tradition, polytheistic pagan priestess, godspouse, and spirit worker. She is the primary author and editor of Lilith: Queen of the Desert and is at work on an upcoming book on the godspouse path.

2012, Gina Pond, Sarah Thompson, Calyxa Omphalos, Philip Tanner, Jacobo Polanshek, Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism, Circle of Cerridwen, →ISBN, page 122:

(paganism, especially Germanic paganism) A mortal person who marries a deity.


alphabet of desire

en-noun

alphabet of desire (plural alphabets of desire)

(occultism) A collection of sigils representing things or qualities that the creator wishes to manifest or connect to.


Belteshazzar

From Hebrew בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר (bēletešaṣṣar), from Akkadian 𒊩𒆪𒈗𒋀 (beltu-šar-uṣur).

der

בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר

Hebrew בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר (bēletešaṣṣar)

(biblical) Babylonian name of the biblical prophet Daniel (cf. Daniel 1:7)


JMT

(religion) Initialism of Jesus myth theory.


grammatico-historical

(theology) Alternative form of historico-grammatical


abnormalist

On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).

2002, David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, page 21:

Abnormalists, in contrast, view the world as fundamentally broken, skewed or distorted. Christians believe that we live in an abnormal state—biologically, socially, psychologically, volitionally, emotionally—[…]

2009, Mark R. McMinn, Clark D. Campbell, Integrative Psychotherapy, page 289:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.


ajari

(Buddhism) In Japanese Buddhism, a senior monk who teaches students.


caeremoniarius

(historical, religion) An official in charge of religious ceremonies.


Barelvi

From Urdu بریلوی (barelvī); which means "of Bareilly" from Bareilly, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India; the location in which the movement began.


Catholic Epistle

en-noun

Catholic Epistle (plural Catholic Epistles)

(biblical) Any one of the New Testament Epistles of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1 John, Jude, and sometimes 2 and 3 John, which are not addressed to specific individuals or Churches.


Pastoral Epistle

Pastoral Epistle (plural Pastoral Epistles)

(biblical) One of three Epistles of the New Testament including 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus which contain instructions for church officers and organization.


harbi

From Arabic حَرْبِيّ (ḥarbiyy, literally “military”), a reference to the House of War.

bor

(Islam) A person who is not a Muslim and does not live under the condition of the dhimma.


devotionalism

en-noun

devotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural devotionalisms)


imambarra

(India, historical, Islam) A building maintained by Shi'a communities in India for the express purpose of celebrating Muharram.


Shaitan

Borrowed from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān, “satan, devil”)

bor+

Beside him two Egyptian artillerymen with their throats cut were sobbing out their lives upon the ground. "Who lays the gun this time?" asked the fierce chief, glaring at the frightened gunners. "Here, thou black-browed child of Shaitan, aim, and aim for thy life."

1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Green Flag:

He thanks Allah for his mercy to men in sending Mohammed the Prophet, who gave the world the True Belief, and he curses Shaitan, who wages war against Allah and his children.


apotelesma

It is further to be observed, that although both the Natures in Christ remaine distinct […] both Natures doe that which is proper vnto them, but with Communion of each with other. This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.

1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60:

Satisfaction is […] looked on as a real act or operation of one or the other nature in Christ, when it is the apotelesma or effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ – the dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in Christ as not to have a third compound principle of physical acts and operations thence arising; but each nature acts distinctly according to its own being and properties, yet so as what is the immediate act of either nature is the act of him who is one in both; from whence it has its dignity.

1669, John Owen, “On the Satisfaction of Christ”, in A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity:

[25][…]Holl. (728) further enumerates the apotelesmata of Christ, as of a twofold order. The divine nature of the λόγος cannot affect some things except by a union with flesh[…]; other things, from his free good pleasure or purpose, he does not will to effect without flesh (for example, miracles).

1876, Heinrich Schmid, translated by Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 360:

Leontius of Byzantium calls the result of this retrospective reconstruction – from the trinitarian Son through the creation of human physis to the enhypostasis – an apotelesma. That is an important shift compared to Chalcedon: the apotelesma, the result of the whole process, is not the hypostasis as such, because the hypostasis – as the hypostasis of the second person of the Trinity – is the hegemonikon principle from the very beginning. The apotelesma, the final point, is the retrospectively reconstructed enhypostatical union of the person of Jesus Christ.

2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106:

(theology) The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.


propositionalism

(theology) The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.


NLT

New Living Translation
w:New Living Translation

(biblical) Initialism of New Living Translation.


gigunu

(religion, historical) A kind of ancient shrine or holy dwelling, of disputed function, associated with a ziggurat.


parinibbana

en-noun

parinibbana (countable and uncountable, plural parinibbanas)

(Buddhism) Alternative form of parinirvana


Amidism

From Amida (“Amitabha”) + -ism (“forming nouns concerning schools of thought”).

suffix

(Buddhism) Synonym of Pure Land Buddhism.


Horeb

(biblical) The mountain where the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by Yahweh, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.


Consistorialrath

Borrowed from German Consistorialrath, obsolete spelling of Konsistorialrat.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Consistorialrath.

(historical, ecclesiastical) councillor of the consistory

(historical, ecclesiastical) consistory council


Jodo

A borrowing of Japanese 浄土 (Jōdo, literally “Pure Land”), q.v.

bor

...zealous persons, chiefly the followers of the Sect of Siodo...

1727, Engelbert Kaempfer, translated by John Gaspar Scheuchzer, History of Japan, volume I, page 287:

The Jō-do-shū, or Pure Land sect.

1886, Bunyiu Nanjio, chapter IX, in A Short History of the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects:

In 1579, the two great sects of Nichiren and Jōdo held a great discussion upon religious subjects.

1876, William Elliot Griffis, Mikado's Empire, page 233:

In the far off West there is said to be the home of Amida... He is free from the chain of transmigration and enjoys a conscious and happy immortality in ‘Jodo’,—that is, in the Pure Land.

1901, R.L. Halsey, The Religion of Japan & the Present Attitude of the Japanese, page 13:

The Jōdo appeals naturally more to plebeian requirements because of the simpleness of its faith and teaching.

1938, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture, page 37:

Jodo Buddhism... had in its structure a grace-based doctrine of salvation of trusting in its goddess that was similar to the doctrine of grace in Christianity.

2012, Atsuyoshi Fujiwara, Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context, page 175:

(Japanese Buddhism) Synonym of Pure Land: a sect of Buddhism and its primary afterlife, the seat of the Amida Buddha.


Jodo

Simple faith in Buddha's grace was all that one needed to cross this ocean of samsara to the Jodo or 'Pure Land'.

(Japanese Buddhism) Alternative letter-case form of jodo: any of various other pure lands.


Pure Land

Calque of Chinese 淨土／净土 (Jìngtǔ) and Japanese 浄土 (Jōdo), both meaning "pure land" and used as the common name of the Buddhist sect devoted to Amitabha and rebirth into his pure land.

(Buddhism) A school of Mahayana Buddhism focused on the Pure Land sutras and the buddha Amitabha.

(Buddhism) The specific pure land of the buddha Amitabha, generally understood as a paradise wherein believers will be led to enlightenment.


Pure Land

(Buddhism) Alternative letter-case form of pure land: any of the various celestial realms of other buddhas and boddhisattvas.


volipresence

(theology) A form of omnipresence in which an entity is present wherever it wishes to be.


Rappism

(historical, religion) The beliefs and principles of the Rappists, or Harmonists.


Christiform

(theology, Christianity) Formed like, or acting in accordance with, Christ.


Ghazwa-e-Hind

Partly re-Arabized form of Urdu غزوہ ہند (ġazvā-e hind), from Classical Persian غزوهٔ هند (ğazwa-yi hind), from Arabic غزوة الهند (“battle of Hind [India]”).

der

(Islam) A prophecy in some hadiths where an Islamic army invades and conquers the Indian subcontinent, as part of the events leading to the eventual apocalypse.


Dar al-Islam

Borrowed from Arabic دار الإسلام (“land of submission [to God]”).

bor

(Islam) Lands that practice Islamic law; the Muslim world.

Dar al-Sulh

land of treaty; non-Muslim countries under a treaty with Islamic countries

Dar al-Harb

land of war; countries hostile against Islam, or any non-Muslim countries by extension

harbi

military; usually a non-Muslim who is not under Muslim rule


Hurufi

(Islam, historical) A follower of Hurufism.


Upāli

Transliteration of Sanskrit उपालि (upāli).

translit

(Buddhism) one of the ten disciples of the Buddha


duskarma

en-noun

duskarma (countable and uncountable, plural duskarmas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit दुष्कर्मन् (duṣkarman, “wickedness”), from दुष्- (duṣ-, “bad”) + कर्मन् (karman, “action”).

bor+

... for an offence against Dharma, (i.e. law or morality) goes far to shed the duṣkarma that results from his offence.

1946, Chittenjoor Kunhan Raja (contributor), Dr. C. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume - A Volume of Indological Studies, page 228:

Forcing oneself into a varṇa other than that in which he is born, will make the offender guilty of duṣkarma or sin , whose effect will be to intensify the effects of prāktanakarma (past-birth action) to which his present caste itself is traceable.

1952, Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami Aiyangar, Some Aspects of the Hindu View of Life According to Dharmaśāṡtra, page 99:

It is a definite consequence of the duṣkarma on the part of the individual.

1968, University of Madras, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Indian Philosophical Annual - Volume 2, page 191:

At any one time we all have the preponderance of one guna over the other two and due to this we do either, (a) satkarma-good acts, or (b) duṣkarma-bad acts.

1998, Pathikonda Viswambara Nath, Tat Tvam Asi, The Universal Massage in the Bhagavadgītā - Volume 1, page 138:

Knowingly or unknowingly people do a lot of duṣkarma (wrong deeds).

2000, Muralidharan, Śrī Guru-Gītā, page 157:

The tone of this verse and verses six and seven seem to refer to any karma whatever, whether it is śrauta, smārta or sādhāraṇa kind and even to duṣkarma that all humans do.

2003, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, R. Balasubramanian, Paramparā - Essays in Honour of R. Balasubramanian, page 199:

(eastern religion) A misdeed, sinful action, vice, or wrong.


volkhv

From Russian волхв (volxv), and from Old East Slavic вълхвъ (vŭlxvŭ).

(historical, paganism) A pre-Christian priest from Slavic cultures.

(religion, paganism) A priest from Slavic neopaganism.


kharaj

(Islam) A kind of individual Islamic tax on agricultural land and its produce.

(Islam, historical) A lump sum duty levied by Muslims upon the lands of conquered provinces.

(Islam, historical) A land tax levied by Muslim rulers on non-Muslim subjects or dhimmis.


Orpah

And they tooke them wiues of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten yeeres.

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

(biblical) A Biblical figure, daughter-in-law of Naomi, wife of Chilion.


Gabbatha

From Ancient Greek Γαββαθᾶ (Gabbathâ), from Aramaic [Term?].

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:13:

(biblical) The Aramaic name of a place in Jerusalem, thought to be the place of the trial of Jesus before his crucifixion


Buraq

Borrowed from Arabic البُرَاق (al-burāq).

(Islam) The horse-like creature that Muhammad is said to have ridden during the Night Journey.


arahitogami

Borrowed from Japanese 現人神(あらひとがみ) (arahitogami).

(Shinto) A deity in human form in Shinto religion.

one of ten major incarnations by the Hindu god Vishnu as a man upon Earth

historically used to refer to the Emperor of Japan when he was worshipped as a living god


antienthusiastic

en-adj

antienthusiastic (comparative more antienthusiastic, superlative most antienthusiastic)

more antienthusiastic (comparative)
most antienthusiastic (superlative)

(religion, historical) Opposing the idea of enthusiasm, or divine possession.


Compitalia

(religion, historical) An annual Ancient Roman festival in honour of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways met.


begottenness

(theology) The quality of being begotten.


Great Mother

In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:


Great Goddess

Gone is the obese Great Goddess; come is the sleek young maid, the Queen of Heaven.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:


three poisons

(Buddhism) The three root kleshas of Moha (delusion and confusion), Raga (greed and sensual attachment) and Dvesha (aversion and hate), which are considered to be innate in a being.


Romuva

From Lithuanian Romuva, a Baltic pagan temple known in mediaeval records as Romowe. The term "Romuva" means "sanctuary" or "adobe of inner peace", from the Baltic root ram-/rām- (peaceful, quiet), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-.

(religion) a neopagan religion from Lithuania that practices reconstructions of the ancient Baltic polytheistic religion.


Shinar

And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:2:

In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar.

2022 April 11, Jonathan Haidt, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid”, in The Atlantic:

(biblical) The southern region of Mesopotamia.


JAWI

w:ms:Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (“Islamic Religious Department of the Federal Territory, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAIS

Islamic law enforcement agency in Selangor


JAKIM

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (“Department of Islamic Development Malaysia”).


triunitarianism

(theology) Trinitarianism; the Christian doctrine which asserts that God's nature is triune.


Ṭūbā

Transliteration of Arabic طُوبَى (ṭūbā).


Nizam-e-Mustafa

From Urdu نظام مصطفى, made of Arabic نظام (“law, order”) and Arabic مصطفى (“the Chosen One [by God], a title for the Prophet Muhammad”). Literally means "the order of the Chosen One".

bor

Urdu نظام مصطفى

der

the Chosen One 􂀿by God􂁀, a title for the Prophet Muhammad

(Islam, Pakistan, India) the ideal society, ethics, and social norms of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dar al-Islam

the Muslim world in general, rather than one specific society or state


Great Father

In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

(paganism, religion) The preeminent male deity of various religions.


Dhu'l-Qarnayn

From Arabic ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن (ḏū l-qarnayn).

bor

ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن

Arabic ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن (ḏū l-qarnayn)

(Islam) The powerful ruler (traditionally believed to be a reference to Alexander the Great) who built the wall that keeps Gog and Magog from attacking mankind.


tamid

Borrowed from Hebrew תָמִיד (“always, regularly”).

bor+

The tamid offering is to be financed by all the people, not merely by the leaders or by the rich.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 930:

(biblical) The twice-daily sacrifice of two male lambs by the priesthood.


'aqida

en-noun

'aqida (countable and uncountable, plural 'aqa'id)


wazukhana

From Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā) / Urdu وضو خانا (vazūxānā, “washing court”), from वज़ू (vazū) / وضو (vazū, “washing, wudu”) + ख़ाना (xānā) / خانا (xānā, “court”).

bor

Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā)

(India, Pakistan, Islam) a pool in a mosque where worshippers wash themselves as wudu before praying.


istighfar

اِسْتِغْفَار

Arabic اِسْتِغْفَار (istiḡfār)

(Islam) Act of asking God for forgiveness

istigfar

(Islam) act of asking God for forgiveness


cow-mother

A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

(religion) A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.


underivedly

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


takyeh

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

bor+

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

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

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

1995, National Development and Security, page 116:

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

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

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


takya

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

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

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

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

takyas (graveyards)

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

Takya, a pillow, a resting-place of Faqīrs

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

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

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

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

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya


Okipa

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


ordination mill

en-noun

ordination mill (plural ordination mills)

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


Bundahishn

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

bor

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

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

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

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

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

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


fluff bunny

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


fluffbunny

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

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

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

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

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

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


Sunni Islam

Coordinate term: Shi'a Islam

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


Ynglism

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

af

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


gracelike

en-adj

gracelike (comparative more gracelike, superlative most gracelike)

more gracelike (comparative)
most gracelike (superlative)

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

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

(religion) Resembling or characteristic of grace.


deincarnation

en-noun

deincarnation (countable and uncountable, plural deincarnations)

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

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

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

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

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


dogmatic theology

dogmatic theology (countable and uncountable, plural dogmatic theologies)

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


starlight problem

Young Earth creationism
Young Earth creationism

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


suddenism

Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism.

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

(Buddhism) The achievement of sudden enlightenment.


anticardinal

(historical, ecclesiastical) A pretender to the office of cardinal.


unorigination

the unorigination of the Father

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


verbenarius

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


sar tan se juda

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

bor

سر تن سے جدا

bor

گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا

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

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

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


Lesser Litany

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


sambhogakaya

Coordinate term: nirmanakaya

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


dole bread

en-noun

dole bread (countable and uncountable, plural dole breads)

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


sacramental bread

sacramental bread (countable and uncountable, plural sacramental breads)

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


singing bread

singing bread (countable and uncountable, plural singing breads)

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


bread-skep

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


Nebaioth

bor

Hebrew נְבָיוֹת

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


Lokapala

intercardinal direction
intercardinal direction

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


tent revival

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


kindom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


lebai

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

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


Gungnir

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

lbor

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


sit under

en-verb

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

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

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


Elkoshite

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


Munkar

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


Tantra

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


Jaunpuri

en-adj

Jaunpuri (comparative more Jaunpuri, superlative most Jaunpuri)

more Jaunpuri (comparative)
most Jaunpuri (superlative)

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


Jaunpuri

(Islam) A follower of the Jaunpuri tradition.


sin money

en-noun

sin money (countable and uncountable, plural sin moneys)

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


king of the north

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


touch assist

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


Azoara

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Neo-orthodox

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


holytide

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

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

(religion) A holy day, or religious festival.


chrismate

en-verb

chrismate (third-person singular simple present chrismates, present participle chrismating, simple past and past participle chrismated)

chrismates (present singular third-person)
chrismating (participle present)
chrismated (participle past)
chrismated (past)

(ecclesiastical, transitive) To anoint; to perform the sacrament of chrismation upon.


ordination hall

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


Subhūti

Transliteration of Sanskrit सुभूति (subhūti) or Pali Subhūti.

translit

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


Katyayana

Transliteration of Sanskrit कात्यायन (kātyāyana)


Zarathustricism

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


innerstanding

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


MEST

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

acronym

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


by the Grace of Allah

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

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

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

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


cosmocrator

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

compound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hypostatic union

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

der

ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν

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


Quran Belt

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

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


Bethzatha

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

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

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

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

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

(biblical) Alternative form of Bethesda.


upstat

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

(Scientology) A successful person who is making progress.


downstat

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

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


subdevil

(theology) A lesser devil: one subordinate to an archdevil.


Palluite

(biblical) A member of the tribe descended from Pallu, a son of Reuben.


Gamaliel

/ɡæməˈliːəl/

From Late Latin Gamaliēl from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).

bor

Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl)

cog

ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:3:

(biblical, Judaism, Christianity) Gamaliel the Elder, a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE.


JED

(religion) A hypothetical intermediate stage in the development of the Torah, consisting of a combination of the Jehovist (J), Elohist (E), and Deuteronomist (D) sources.


Beloved Disciple

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin discipulus dīlēctus, applied as an epithet of John the Evangelist. The term is a summary of the expressions found in the Gospel itself, such as ὁ μαθητὴς ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς (ho mathētḕs hòn ēgápa ho Iēsoûs, “the disciple whom Jesus loved”).

calque

And the beloved''' Disciple fell down as dead at the appearance of Christ in his Glory.

1674, William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes […], page 90:

The idea of the almost immediate return of Christ to judgment still so far retains its force that the Beloved Disciple is represented as probably living to see it […]

1872, Thomas Scott, The English Life of Jesus, page 328:

The question of the identification of the Beloved Disciple and that of the discovery of the author of the Gospel are not necessarily identical, for it is quite possible to argue, as we found Schmiedel doing just now, that the two were separate and distinct persons.

1949, Harold Holloway, The Twilight of the Critics: Being Studies and Reflections on the Fourth Gospel, page 76:

(biblical) A figure in the Gospel of John whose identity is left implicit within the text; traditionally, John the Evangelist himself.


inscripturate

en-verb

inscripturate (third-person singular simple present inscripturates, present participle inscripturating, simple past and past participle inscripturated)

inscripturates (present singular third-person)
inscripturating (participle present)
inscripturated (participle past)
inscripturated (past)

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

(transitive, theology) To put or make into scripture; to record or write in scripture:

To incorporate into scripture; to include within scripture.

To communicate or express through the medium or form of scripture.


inscripturate

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix).

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded or written in scripture; inscripturated:

Incorporated into scripture; included within scripture.

If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.

1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.

Communicated or expressed through the medium or form of scripture.


metadivine

From meta- + divine, a calque of Hebrew עַל־אֱלֹהִי (ʿal-ʾĕlōhî, “beyond-godly”), הֲוָיָה עַל־אֱלֹהִית (hăwāyāh ʿal-ʾĕlōhît̲, “beyond-godly existence”) as used by Yehezkel Kaufmann.

cal

There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.

1960, Yehezkel Kaufmann, “Chapter II: Pagan Religion”, in Moshe Greenberg, transl., The Religion of Israel, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 23:

(religion) Of or pertaining to the realm of existence prior to or beyond that of the gods, especially in nonbiblical/pagan religions.


inscripturated

...what we think about the incarnate Word of God, Jesus Christ, will run parallel with what we think about the inscripturated Word of God, the Bible.

1998, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd. 8 April 1998

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded, written, or included in scripture; inscripturate.


Cainian

(Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism) Synonym of Cainite.


pirism

(Sufism, Bangladesh) The following of a Sufi spiritual leader (or pir)


sramana

A misannotated form of Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa). Doublet of samana and shaman in some contexts.

(religion, inexact, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of samana (“Indian ascetic, particularly in Hindu and Jain contexts”).


infernalist

(theology) One who believes in infernalism.


infernalism

en-noun

infernalism (countable and uncountable, plural infernalisms)

From infernal + -ism. First attested in 1795, popularised in the theological sense in the 2000s–10s.

To these conceptions Protestant churches will gradually yield, and while still nominally the same in their faith, its infernalism will disappear, and the idea of future punishment will become a rational instead of a diabolical picture of Divine justice.

1853 August, “The Onward Movement”, in Joseph R. Buchanan, editor, Buchanan’s Journal of Man, volume 4, number 8, page 228:

Sheltered in my tiny corner of Christendom, like many evangelicals I was unaware of […] alternative prespectives on hell that did not transform God into a wrathful tyrant-judge who consigns the unrepentant to Dante-tesque tortures for eternity. As it turns out, the view of hell with which I grew up—infernalism—is only one of several options […]

2009, Brad Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem, →ISBN:

Embedded within his argument is the view that infernalism is a less severe form of retributive punishment than annihilationism; […]

2022, A. G. Holdier, “Comments on ‘Is Annihilation More Severe than Eternal Conscious Torment?’”, in Southwest Philosophy Review, volume 38, number 2, page 43:

(theology) Belief in the existence of hell, especially as a place of eternal and conscious torment after death.


choiceless awareness

Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

2023 February 2 (last accessed), Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The Core of the Teachings”, in jkrishnamurti.org, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:

(philosophy, psychology, spiritualism) The state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion; popularized in the mid-20th century by Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

الوعي بلا اختيار

the state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion


Samiri

(Islam) According to the Qur'an, a rebellious follower of Moses who created the golden calf and attempted to lead the Hebrews into idolatry.


Moorish Science

(religion) A religion comprising the members of the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded by Noble Drew Ali.


qutb

Between the two breaths is a star. This star is […] the prophets, the qutbs, the saints of God, the lights of God, […]

2008, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Suratur-rahmah: The Form of Compassion, page 45:

(Sufism) One of the Sufi spiritual leaders of a particular era.


doongerwadi

tower of silence
tower of silence#English

(Zoroastrianism) Synonym of tower of silence


adiaphorization

(theology) The act of making into an adiaphoron.


angelomorphic

From angel + -o- + -morphic. First attested in the 19th century, but popularised after the 1950s on the basis of French angélomorphique as used in the work of Jean Daniélou.

Other early Christian texts describe Christ in angelomorphic or angelic categories. For instance, in the Pseudo-Clementines Christ is ascribed the role of an archangel and becomes identified with Michael […]

2005, Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann, The Destroyer and the Lamb […], →ISBN, page 80:

This larger theological articulation results in a quasi-Trinitarian structure of the divine world, featuring the Father, the Son/Spirit, and the angelomorphic Spirit.

2007, Bogdan G. Bucur, The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism, page 4:

For Fletcher-Louis the sectarian use of angelic descriptors (angelomorphic language) in reference to the high priest strongly implies an angelic transformation such that the priest is both “functionally and ontologically angelic”.

2017, Christine Hayes, “‘The Torah was not Given to Ministering Angels’: Rabbinic Aspirationalism”, in Charlotte Fonrobert et al., editors, Talmudic Transgression: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin, →ISBN, page 135:

(theology) Having the form of an angel; representing a specified person or object in such a manner.


Shushan

13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.
14 And the king commanded it so to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.
15 For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 9:13–15:

(biblical) Susa, Shush (the ancient capital of Elam, in modern Iran).


asherah

asherah (plural asherahs or asherim or asherot)

asherahs (plural)
asherim (plural)
asherot (plural)

H. Saggs maintains that during this time, asherahs were 'regarded by the worshippers as part of the cult of Yahweh, not of a separate deity Baal'.

2020, Tyson L. Putthoff, Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East, page 127:

(religion, historical) A wooden pole or tree set up to represent the goddess Asherah.


Ash'arism

(Islam) A Sunni school of Islamic theology, founded by Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari in the 9th–10th century.


avidya

Borrowed from Sanskrit अविद्या (avidyā).

(Buddhism, Hinduism) Ignorance or delusion.


avadana

(Buddhism) A form of Buddhist literature correlating the virtuous deeds of past lives with events taking place in subsequent lives.