Epiphany

en-noun

Epiphany (countable and uncountable, plural Epiphanies)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Edward Burne-Jones

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From the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

That was also the reason why the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the three epiphanies of Christ's divinity, His Baptism, the Miracle of Cana, and the Visit of the Magi, was one of the most favorite feasts in the Eastern Church[…]

1998, Maurice B. McNamee, Vested Angels: Eucharistic Allusions in Early Netherlandish Paintings, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 167:

A manifestation of the divinity of Jesus Christ, especially to the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12), but also at his baptism and the Wedding at Cana.

On the Festival of the Epiphany, and on the six Sundays called after its name, we have distinct pictures held up to our view connected with the life of Jesus of Nazareth[…]

1878, Haskett Smith, The divine Epiphany, page 9:

The Epiphany, also known as the Feast of the Three Kings, Feast of Lights and Little Christmas, is known to have been observed earlier than 194 A.D.[…]

2003 11, Rock DiLisio, Three Kings of Casablanca: The Trek to Treasure, iUniverse, →ISBN:

An annual Christian feast celebrating these events, usually on January 6, the twelfth day after Christmas.

The day of the celebration, January 6, or sometimes (in Western Christianity), the Sunday between January 2 and 8.

The season or time of the Christian church year, either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent), or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of Candlemas (marking the presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple in Jerusalem).

(psychology) an experience of sudden and striking insight


Epiphany

𐔰𐕄𐕒𐕡𐕄𐕆𐔶𐕒𐕡𐕎

annual Christian feast celebrating this event

härkäviikot

season or time of the Christian church year


Father

(Christianity) God, the father of Creation.

(Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.


Father

Father Thomas was a good priest.

Father Smith, the social action director of the archdiocese, and Father William Killian, executive editor of the archdiocesan weekly, went to Brownsville, joined the field workers in picketing, attended several rallies, and marched in an eight-mile “pilgrimage.” They were arrested by local authorities for trespassing on private property and sent back to San Antonio. When Fathers Smith and Killian returned to the valley in early 1967 in defiance of Lucey’s specific orders, Lucey removed Smith as social action director and demoted Killian and several other activist priests for violating protocol.

2006, David A. Badillo, “Powers of the Prelates: Urban Hierarchies Contrasted”, in Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(Christianity) A title given to priests.

(always in 1st person singular possessive) atyám

the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers

(Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.


Gloria

/ˈɡlɔːɹ.ɪ.ə/

/ˈɡlɔːɹ.iː.ə/

From Latin gloria (“glory”), first used as a name in 19th-century literature.

“What did the priest, and all of you, keep on saying when we first went in?” / “Our Fathers, Hail Maries, and Glorias; couldn’t you hear?” asked Emily, laughing. / “No, I should think not, you rattled on so fast- What are Hail Maries and Glorias?” / “The Gloria you know well enough, my dear, because you say it in your church at the end of every psalm,” replied Miss Horton; “the Hail Mary is a prayer to our Blessed Lady,” and she repeated it.

1872, F. A., chapter V, in Marion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs, Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, […], page 100:

(Christianity) The Gloria in excelsis Deo, a hymn sung during the liturgy of many churches.


Gospel

(Christianity) Alternative form of gospel


Lamb

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 12:10-11:

(See St. Paul's epistles, and the early Fathers.) And we have the expression "washed in the blood of the Lamb" adopted into the Christian Church.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:


Latin

Jamaican Creole: Latn

From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix). Displaced or merged with Old English Lǣden. Doublet of Ladino.

The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by the hand and conducted him to his throne[…]

1901, John Hackett, A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, page 117:

(Christianity) Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.


Latin

From Middle English Latin, Latyn, from Old English Lǣden, from Vulgar Latin *ladinum (“Latin”) and Old French latin (“Latin”); all from Latin Latinus (“belonging to Latium”). Later influenced in form by the Latin word. Compare Dutch Latijn (“Latin”), German Latein (“Latin”), Swedish Latin (“Latin”).

رُّومِيَّة

person whose native tongue is one descended from Latin

The modern Latins have been in the habit of blaming the Greek and other Eastern Liturgies for not consecrating by the recital of OUR SAVIOUR'S words of Institution[…]

1853, William Palmer, Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion, page 118:

(Christianity) A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.


Lent

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“spring”), as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses. Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”).

الصَّوْم الْأَرْبَعِينِيّ

Christian period of penitence before Easter

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

(Eastern Christianity) The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.

(Roman Catholicism) The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.

Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.


Lord

en-proper noun

Lord (countable and uncountable, plural Lords)

See lord.
In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I Am that I Am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.

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Some trust in charets, and some in horses: but wee will remember the Name of the Lord our God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 20:7:

en:the Abrahamic deity, either nontrinitarian or trinitarian

en:God the Father, within the trinitarian Abrahamic deity

The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.

(Christianity) God the Father; the Godhead.

Therfore I doe you to vnderſtand that no má ſpeaking in the Spirit of God, ſaith anáthema to IESVS. And no man can ſay, Our Lord IESVS: but in the holy Ghoſt.

1582, Douay–Rheims Bible, 1 Corinth. 12:3

How loyal in the following of thy Lord!

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

(Christianity) Jesus Christ, God the Son.


Magi

/ˈmeɪˌd͡ʒaɪ/

Adoration of the Magi
Historical Museum Bamberg
Lucas Cranach the Elder

From magi (plural of magus (“magician; (derogatory) conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster; Zoroastrian priest”)), from Middle English mages, magi or Magi, magy or Magy (“men possessing occult knowledge; astrologers, philosophers, sorcerers”), from Latin magī, from magus (“magician; (derogatory) conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster; Zoroastrian priest”) + -ī (suffix forming nominative or vocative masculine plurals). Magus is derived from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos), Μάγος (Mágos, “magician; (derogatory) conjurer, sorcerer; Zoroastrian priest”) (plural μᾰ́γοι (mắgoi), Μᾰ́γοι (Mắgoi)), from Old Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬕𐬎 (moġu), Old Median and Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /maγu-/, title of a person?)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able, have power; power; sorcerer”).

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From the collection of the Historical Museum Bamberg in Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Germany.

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A rich Tabernacle where is kept the head of Saint Euſtorgio, and the Tomb of the three Magi, with this inſcription. Sepulchrum Trium Magorum, where lay the Bodies of thoſe Magi, which were brought hither by Saint Euſtorgio, in Anno 330. when he came laſt out of the Eaſt, but many yeers after, this City being deſtroyed by Fedrick Barbaroſſa, in Anno 1163.

1660, Edmund Warcupp, transl., Italy, in its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival, London, →OCLC, page 70:

(Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).


Mass

en-noun

Mass (countable and uncountable, plural Masses)

From Middle English messe, from Old English mæsse and Old French messe, both from Late Latin missa, from Latin mittō (“to send, dismiss”), compare French messe.
In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with the words: "Ite, missa est", the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. Compare Christmas, Lammas, missal. Doublet of missa.

(Roman Catholicism) The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine.

meshë

Roman Catholic Church: the principal liturgical service


Messiah

→ Japanese: メシア

→ Korean: 메시아 (mesia)

→ Welsh: Meseia


Nativity

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(Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.


Nonconformist

(Christianity) A member of a Protestant church which does not observe the doctrines of the established church, especially of the Church of England.


Orthodox

en-adj

Orthodox (comparative more Orthodox, superlative most Orthodox)

more Orthodox (comparative)
most Orthodox (superlative)

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(Christianity) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

Oriental Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Church

(Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.


Passion

From Latin Passiō, a proper-noun use of passiō (“suffering”) (a sense of passion which is now obsolete or archaic in English).

Empty bread, empty mouths, combien réaction.
Empty bread, empty mouths, talk about the Passion.
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.

1983 April 12, R.E.M., “Talk About The Passion”, in Murmur:

(Christianity) The sufferings of Jesus Christ from the night of the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.


Prophet

(Christianity, Judaism) Any of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, especially an author of one of the Prophets.

پێغەمەر

any of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, Quran, or Torah


Protestant

Protestants (plural)
protestant (alternative)

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Borrowed from either German Protestant or French protestant, one likely reinforced by the other; equivalent to protest + -ant.

(Christianity) A member of any of several Christian denominations which separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation (or in some cases later).

protestant

someone who is a member of such a denomination


Protestant

Protestant (comparative more Protestant, superlative most Protestant)

more Protestant (comparative)
most Protestant (superlative)
protestant (alternative)

It is not perhaps too much to say, that a more harmonious, a more decorous, a more loyal, a more Protestant, a more Christian meeting, never took place within the walls of our ancient city.

1840, Norwich Operative Protestant Association, Released statement, The Penny Protestant Operative, page 15:

To make this perfectly clear, we shall contrast a few of the most Protestant with a few of the most Roman Catholic counties.

1855, Napoléon Roussel, Catholic and Protestant Nations Compared, volumes 1-2, page 120:

For reasons to do with the predominantly Lutheran rather than Calvinist heritage (and to some extent with the postwar division of Germany which hived off the more Protestant East), the participation of Protestants in the CDU has been small.

2004, Paul Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey, page 27:

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation.


Q

In comparing Q 10:10–11 and Mark 6:11, there is no reliable way to determine which exact form of the saying is more primitive, the third person account of Mark or the direct speech recorded in Q.

2006, Brian Han Gregg, The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 103:

(theology, Christianity) The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (“source”)); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document)


Rapture

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(Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ


Son

(Christianity) one of the three persons of the Trinity, believed to have become incarnated as Jesus Christ


Spirit

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation's heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this people, and they have found peace only in the altars of the God of Right. Nor has our gift of the Spirit been merely passive.

1903, W. E. B. DuBois, chapter 14, in The Souls of Black Folk:


Stigmata

(religion, Christianity) bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ; supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically


Transfiguration

(Christianity) An annual feast day, observed on August 6th (Gregorian) or 19th (Julian), celebrating the miracle when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles.


Trinity

He speaks distinctly of the Trinity of the godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

1836, Thomas Robbins, A Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 17:

From all eternity Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus Christ was with God the Father, the first person of the Trinity; and Jesus Christ was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity.

1846, John Wilson, Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism, page 149:

(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (trine, personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

drie-eenheid

Christianity: three persons of the Godhead


Vespers

(Christianity) A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong


Virgin

From virgin, q.v. The sense of Mary, mother of Jesus, comes from the Christian belief in Jesus's virgin birth and Mary's freedom from sin. The river sense derives from the name of Thomas Virgin, a member of the first American party to see the river, led by Jedediah Smith in 1826. The town sense derives from the name of the river, along which it is located.

'Behold,' said he, showing the picture of the Virgin, 'Behold her who protects us. Fear nothing : we shall reach Chang-hai, and we shall see our bishop.'
He spoke truth : shortly they descried a Chinese junk. The master of it, on the promise of a good round sum, undertook to guide them to their destination.

1848, “Letter of Andrew Kim-Hai-Kim, Corean Deacon, to the Reverend Doctor Libois, Procurator of Foreign Missions at Macao”, in United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review, volume 7, →OCLC, page 464:

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

Maagd

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


Virgin

Of the forty-five floats presenting Virgins alone, two are preeminent and the subject of such veneration that even the most casual observer must reflect on the fact that Holy Week, which commemorates Christ's passion and death, has become in Spain a celebration in which he plays a secondary role, with his mother becoming the central figure.

1968, James A. Michener, “Sevilla”, in Iberia, New York, NY: Dial Press, published 2015, →ISBN, page 317:

(Christianity, art) A representation (picture, statue etc.) of Virgin Mary.


Way

From specific instances of way. In Christian contexts, a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) used with that meaning in the Acts of the Apostles (for example, Acts 9:2). In Chinese contexts, a semantic loan from Chinese 道 (Dào).

semantic loan

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

1946, The Bible, Revised Standard Version, Acts 9:1-2:

(Christianity, with the definite article) Christianity.


interdict

en-verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

interdicts (present singular third-person)
interdicting (participle present)
interdicted (participle past)
interdicted (past)

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.

1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.


laura

lauras (plural)
laurae (plural)
lavra (alternative)

From the Late Latin laura, from Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra, “lane, path”).

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The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.

1864, Charles Kingsley, Lecture IX: The Monk a Civilizer: The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 240:

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior


yes and amen

I take God at His word and say yes and amen to His plans.

(Christianity) An enthusiastic agreement.


Quicunque vult

the Quicunque vult (canonical)
Quicunque Vult (alternative)
Quicumque vult (alternative)

From Ecclesiastical Latin quīcunque vult (salvus esse …) (“whoever will (be saved …)”), the opening words of the creed.

Robertus Paululus, Presbyter of Amiens, in the Diocess of Rheims, speaking of the Offices recited at the Prime, observes that the Piety of good Christians had thereunto added the Quicunque vult, that the Articles necessary to salvation might never be forgotten any hour of the Day.

1728, Daniel Waterland, A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed […], 2nd edition, page 45:

Nobody can deny that Creed to have been published under the name of Charlemagne: nor, till an earlier work of undoubted authenticity can be produced where the ‘Quicunque vult’ is designated ‘the Faith’ or ‘Creed of S. Athanasius,’ can anybody deny Charlemagne to have been the first in whose writings, or the writing of persons acting under him, it is ascribed—and ascribed falsely—to S. Athanasius, and paraded as a Creed possessing all the authority that would attach justly to his name.

1885, Edmund S. Ffoulkes, Primitive Consecration of the Eucharistic Oblation: With an Earnest Appeal for Its Revival, page 314:

Monday Vespers is interrupted first by the materials for Prime, with psalm 117 […] and the Quicunque vult with a selection of antiphons.

2020, John Caldwell, “The Development of the Latin Liturgical Psalter in England”, in Tess Knighton, David Skinner, editors, Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages […], →ISBN, page 164:


Armageddon

/ˌɑː(ɹ).məˈɡɛ.dn̩/

/ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/

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From Middle English Hermagedon, from Old English Ermagedon, from Latin Hermagedon, from Ancient Greek Ἁρμαγεδών (Harmagedṓn), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount Megiddo, the place of the last battle at the Last Judgment; from Hebrew הר מגידו / הַר מְגִדּוֹ (har megiddo).

he-l

הַר מְגִדּוֹ

הר מגידו / הַר מְגִדּוֹ (har megiddo)

And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.

1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440:

(Christianity, Islam) Mount Megiddo, the site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.


doomsday

en-noun

doomsday (countable and uncountable, plural doomsdays)

doomsdays (plural)
domesday (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivalent to doom + -s- + day. Possibly influenced by Latin domus dei (“house of God”).

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.


judgement day

judgement days (plural)
judgment day (alternative US)

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If God's a-coming, he ought to make it by then / Maybe he'll look around himself and say / “Guess it's time for the judgement day!”

1968, Zager and Evans, “In the Year 2525”:

But when I woke up this morning / I could have sworn it was judgement day

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism, sometimes capitalized) 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.

يَوْم الْحِسَاب

final trial of all humankind at the end of the world


devil's advocate

devil's advocate (plural devil's advocates)

Calque of Latin advocātus diabolī (“the devil’s advocate”), a popular title given to the officer dealing with the canonization process in the 16th c.

calque

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate.

مُحَامِي الشَّيْطَان

muḥāmī š-šayṭān

列聖調査審問検事

れっせいちょうさしんもんけんじ


congregate

en-adj

congregate (comparative more congregate, superlative most congregate)

more congregate (comparative)
most congregate (superlative)

/ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡət/

The adjective is first attested in 1400–1450, in Middle English, the verb c. 1513; from Middle English congregat(e) (“(of people) banded together; (of liquids) accumulated; (of muscles) contracted; (of wounds) closed up”), borrowed from Latin congregātus, perfect passive participle of congregō (“to congregate”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3), from con- (“with, together”) + gregō (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”). See gregarious and egregious. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

inh

congregate churches

(obsolete, Christianity) Congregated (organized on a congregational basis).


RC

en-noun

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Roman Catholic.


CRC

Christian Reformed Church
w:Christian Reformed Church

(Christianity) Initialism of Christian Reformed Church.


OT

Coordinate term: NT

(Christianity, Judaism) Initialism of Old Testament.


dissident

From Latin dissidēns, present participle of dissideō (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedeō (“to sit”).

(Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

From Warſaw, May 25. That the Dyet of Convocation had held its laſt Seſſion on the 22d, and then agreed to and ſign'd a general Confederacy in good Order, having firſt Sworn not to Elect a Foreigner as above. The Day of Election was fixt for the 25th of Aug. But a Proteſt was enter'd by the Diſſidents, who had been excluded.

1733 May, “Foreign Advices in May, 1733”, in “Sylvanus Urban” [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, volume III, number 24, London: Printed, and sold at St John's Gate, by F. Jeffries in Ludgate-street, and most booksellers, →OCLC, page 272:

The Article which enjoins Peace among the Diſſidents was ſigned by all the Catholics then present, and ſo are alſo the continual Repetitions of it in all the Pacta Conventa, and in the ſame Terms, to the Death of the late King; whereas the Confederacies of 1717 and 1733 are not signed by the Diſſidents, who were expelled from thence by Force.

1767, Reflections on the Affairs of the Dissidents in Poland, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 7:

Theſe Pieces are introduced by a very ſenſible preface, explaining the hardſhips and injuſtice which have been inflicted upon the Diſſidents of Poland. We there ſee that the Diſſidents (by whom are meant the proteſtants and the Greeks) had their privileges eſtablished by the fundamental laws paſſed in 1572; and that theſe rights were confirmed by the treaty of Oliva in 1660, which was guarantied by the principal powers of Europe.

1768 March, “VIII. Original Pieces, concerning the Present Situation of the Protestants and Greeks in Poland. Wherein are Contained, The Explanation of Their Rights Published by the Court of Russia: The Articles of the Peace of Oliva: The Confederacies of the Dissidents, and the Declarations of the Protestant Courts in Their Favour: The Speeches of the Bishop of Cracovia and the Pope's Nuncio: The Constitutions of the Diet of 1766: And the Articles of the College of the Bishops Allowed to the Dissidents, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the Originals. 8vo. Pr[ice] 2s. 6d. Baker.”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume XXV, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, in Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, pages 206–207:

A Socinian was a Dissident, and a member of the Greek Church was a Dissident; and these Dissidents agreed to act together. Even a liberal Romanist might be called a Dissident.

1863, R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, “Poland from Sigismund II. to the Partition”, in The Nationalities of Europe. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W., →OCLC, page 53:

The rest, about half a million Russian Orthodox and about the same number of Protestants, were known as ‘dissidents’; the huge Jewish community defied classification.

2013, Brendan [Peter] Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN:

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.


reconciliation

reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.

nb...

reconcyliacyoun, reconsiliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliacioun, reconsyliacion, reconsylyacion,

(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.

izmirenje

(Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.

(Roman Catholicism) Short for sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).

sacrament of reconciliation
sacrament of reconciliation#English


Gen

Shortened from new generation, from Italian generazione nuova.

(Roman Catholicism) A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.


antipapal

en-adj

antipapal (comparative more antipapal, superlative most antipapal)

more antipapal (comparative)
most antipapal (superlative)


chorale

(Christianity) A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune.


custody

en-noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

Borrowed from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”). Doublet of custode.

bor+

The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.


fistula

en-noun

fistula (plural fistulas or fistulae or fistulæ)

fistulas (plural)
fistulae (plural)
fistulæ (plural)
fistule (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin fistula (“pipe, ulcer, catheter”). Doublet of fester.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice in certain ceremonies (such as papal Masses).


embolism

The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow. From Old French embolisme (“intercalation of days in a calendar to correct errors”), from Late Latin embolismus, from Ancient Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismós, “intercalary”), from ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to insert, throw in”).

der

(Christianity) An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer.

(Roman Catholicism) The variable body of a liturgical preface, between the protocol and eschatocol, typically stating the motive for worship on a given day.


sext

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

(Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.


compline

complines (plural)
complin (alternative)

From Middle English compelin, cumplie, from Old French complie, from Latin complēta (hōra) (literally “finished hour”).

(Christianity) The last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.


tricerion

triceria (plural)
trikerion (alternative)

From Ancient Greek τρικήριον (trikḗrion) from τρι- (tri-) + κηρός (kērós) + -ιον (-ion).

af

(Christianity, in the Greek Orthodox church) A candlestick with three lights, signifying the trinity.


pillar

From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

two laye-men secular
eache of theym holdynge a pillar
In their hondes, steade of a mace

(Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.


collegial

en-adj

collegial (comparative more collegial, superlative most collegial)

more collegial (comparative)
most collegial (superlative)

From Middle English collegial, from Middle French collégial.

(Roman Catholicism) Ruled by bishops having equal power.

col·legial

Roman Catholic Church: ruled by bishops having equal power


filling

1903, William Edward Biederwolf, A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit, James H. Earle & Company (publ.), page 100.
As learned Dr. Hodge has reminded us, any impartation of the Holy Spirit is a baptism, and certainly, apart from biblical phraseology, a filling with the Spirit may be called a baptism with the Spirit.

All these terms referencing the work of the Holy Spirit—coming upon, falling upon, being filled with the Holy Spirit, receiving the promise of the Father—can best be understood as synonymous with baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the key to understanding being “one baptism, many fillings.”

2011, Raymond F. Culpepper, Understanding the Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Pathway Press, page 33:

Other signs followed their subsequent fillings with the Holy Spirit, but the first filling was immediately followed by the speaking in other tongues.

2016, Zacharias Tanee Fomum, You Can Receive The Baptism Into The Holy Spirit Now, self-published:

(Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.


kenosis

en-noun

kenosis (countable and uncountable, plural kenoses)

From Ancient Greek κένωσις (kénōsis, “emptying”) (see keno- and κενό (kenó)), from κενόειν (kenóein, “to empty”) (with reference to Philippians 2.vii, "But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are" – New Jerusalem Version).

der

(Christianity) Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.


vagus

Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).

bor

Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.

1922, “Domicile”, in Charles George Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume 17, page 270:

(Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.


Immaculate Conception

(Catholicism) The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin.

(Roman Catholicism) December 8th (The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary).

(Roman Catholicism) A title of Mary, in particular reference to her unique status with regard to the aforementioned doctrine.


amma

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin amma, from Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, “mother, abbess”).

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amma.

(Christianity, historical) An abbess or spiritual mother, especially one of the Desert Mothers.


scrutiny

en-noun

scrutiny (usually uncountable, plural scrutinies)

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From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

der

(Christianity) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.


recollection

en-noun

recollection (usually uncountable, plural recollections)

recollections (plural)
re-collection (alternative)

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/

Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather”).

From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.

In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.

(archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

zklidnění mysli

archaic: the act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind

(Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.


Last Supper

(Christianity) The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.


disciple

en-verb

disciple (third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled)

disciples (present singular third-person)
discipling (participle present)
discipled (participle past)
discipled (past)

From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.

inh

(religion, transitive) To train, educate, teach.

(Christianity, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.


collate

en-verb

collate (third-person singular simple present collates, present participle collating, simple past and past participle collated)

collates (present singular third-person)
collating (participle present)
collated (participle past)
collated (past)

From Latin collātus, perfect passive participle of conferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of confer. See also infer, delate and defer (Etymology 2), relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Not related to collateral.

(transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.


novena

From Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

(Roman Catholicism) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.


epistolary

/ɪˈpɪstəˌlɛɹi/

/ˌɛpəˈstɑləɹi/

1620s, from Latin epistolārius, from epistola (“letter”) (English epistle) + -ārius, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ) from ἐπιστέλλω (epistéllō, “I send a message”) from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “I prepare, send”). For the noun, compare Middle English pistelarie and Old English pistelari, both from Medieval Latin epistolārium, possibly via an unattested *epistelari, *epistolarie.

(Christianity) A Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.


dominion

en-noun

dominion (countable and uncountable, plural dominions)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: dominion

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: dominion

From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium.

der

For by him were all things created[…], whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

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

(Christianity) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

בַּעֲלוּת

Christianity: order of angel, ranked above virtues and below thrones


anaphora

en-noun

anaphora (countable and uncountable, plural anaphoras or anaphora)

anaphoras (plural)
anaphora (plural)
anaphoras (alternative)
anaphors (alternative)
anaphors (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἀναφορά (anaphorá, “a carrying back”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).

bor

Meronyms: epiclesis, preface, Sanctus, sursum corda

(Christianity) The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ.


Bishop of Rome

(Christianity) The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.


scripture

en-noun

scripture (countable and uncountable, plural scriptures)

/ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/

From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”).

der

(Christianity, informal) A (short) passage or verse from the Bible


ikona

(Christianity, art) An Orthodox icon, or religious painting.


solemnity

en-noun

solemnity (countable and uncountable, plural solemnities)

From solemn + -ity, from Middle English solemnity (“observance of formality and ceremony”), frequently in the phrases in solemnity, with solemnity, which from Old French solemnite, from Latin sollemnitās, from sollemnis. (Compare solemn.)

der

(Catholicism) A feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or another important saint.


mantlet

mantlets (plural)
mantelet (alternative)

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From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.


Prophets

(Judaism, Christianity) A division of the Old Testament, comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve.


dipper

desc

→ Kashubian: dyper (Canada, United States)

From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + -er.

(historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.


crucifer

From Latin crucifer (“cross-bearer”), from crux (“cross”) + ferō (“I carry, bear”).

(Christianity) A person who carries a cross in a religious procession, a cross bearer.


Lion of Judah

Calque of Hebrew אריה יהודה (Aryeh Yehudah).


stylite

From Ecclesiastical Greek στυλίτης (stulítēs), from Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”).

Daniel, the famous stylite of the city, actually descended from his pillar for the first time in fifteen years, terrifying Basiliscus into the withdrawal of his edict.

1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 53:

Stylites often became major players in Church politics, shouting down their theological pronouncements from their little elevated balconies to the expectant crowds below, or giving personalized advice to those favoured enough to climb the ladder and join them on their platform.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 208:

(Christianity, historical) A Christian ascetic in ancient times who lived alone on top of a tall pillar.

стълпник

Christian ascetic cloistered atop a pillar


Charismatic Movement

(Christianity) A Pentecostal movement within mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches.


Our Lady

Calque of Medieval Latin Domina Nostra and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Queen of Heaven.

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

Zonja Jonë

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Madonna, Mother of God, Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Heaven, Saint Mary, Virgin Mary


ambo

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.

2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:

(Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.


cardinal virtue

en-noun

cardinal virtue (plural cardinal virtues)

See virtue and cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge (hence applied to that on which something turns or depends), important, principal, chief”).

der

(Christianity, often in the plural) One of the four foundational virtues identified by Greek and Christian philosophers, on which other virtues depend: justice, temperance, prudence, or fortitude.


backslide

en-verb

backslide (third-person singular simple present backslides, present participle backsliding, simple past backslid or backslided, past participle backslidden or backslid or backslided)

backslides (present singular third-person)
backsliding (participle present)
backslid (past)
backslided (past)
backslidden (participle past)
backslid (participle past)
backslided (participle past)

(Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.


eschaton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔσχατον (éskhaton, “last thing”), from the neuter singular of ἔσχατος (éskhatos, “last”).

bor+

Only in the eschaton will God’s purpose gain its final fulfilment, a fulfilment, be it noted, which may still include some form of movement within a time-series.

1953, F. W. Dillistone, “The Church and Time”, in Scottish Journal of Theology, volume 6, page 163:

And this is also true of the revelation of the eschata: they do not reach us in a discourse about the future still to come, but in an action, in which God has already really begun them in us.

1966 [1962], Karl Rahner, “The Hermeneutics of Eschatological Associations”, in Karl Rahner, translated by Kevin Smyth, Theological Investigations, volume 4, page 336:

Without these sayings, the textual basis for saying Jesus expected an imminent eschaton becomes very slender.

1994, Marcus J. Borg, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship, →ISBN, page 86:

(Christianity, theology) The apocalypse; the arrival and the era of God’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a conception of or circumstance pertaining to this era.


humanitarian

en-adj

humanitarian (comparative more humanitarian, superlative most humanitarian)

more humanitarian (comparative)
most humanitarian (superlative)

From humanity + -arian (suffix indicating an advocate of or believer in something), possibly modelled after Unitarian (“Christian who does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity; pertaining to Unitarianism”) (see noun sense 2 and verb sense 2).

suffix

I might further object that ſome Humanitarians would tell you that the doctrine of the atonement is perfectly compatible with the ſimple humanity of Chriſt, ſo that to every perſon of the Humanitarian perſuaſion the former tenet does not appear "mockery and deluſion."

[1792], Benjamin Hobhouse, “Letter V”, in A Reply to the Rev. F[rancis] Randolph’s Letter to the Rev. Dr. [Joseph] Priestley; or, An Examination of the Rev. F. Randolph’s “Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments:” […], Trowbridge, Wiltshire: […] Abraham Small, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, section IV (Of Your Comments upon the Following Extract from Dr. Priestley’s Letter to Dr. [Richard] Price, Page 45), page 85:

[Y]ou muſt have recourſe to pretty ſtrong figure to reconcile that belief to humanitarian tenets, from this beautiful and ſublime chapter.

1793, F[rancis] Randolph, Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments Vindicated, against the Reply of Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 147–148:

(Christianity, rare) Of or pertaining to the belief that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.


humanitarian

But it will be demanded, how happened it that Irenæus, the pupil of that Polycarp who is repreſented to have been a Humanitarian, ſhould become a zealous advocate for the Deity of Chriſt?

[1792], Benjamin Hobhouse, “Letter IV”, in A Reply to the Rev. F[rancis] Randolph’s Letter to the Rev. Dr. [Joseph] Priestley; or, An Examination of the Rev. F. Randolph’s “Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments:” […], Trowbridge, Wiltshire: […] Abraham Small, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, section II (Of Your Quotation from Irenæus), page 171:

[S]hould any one tell a Humanitarian, that I worſhipped and adored my Saviour, might he not with equal juſtice ſuppoſe me to avow only the ſame ſort of reverence I thought due a parent, or the adoration one profeſſed to pay any beloved object.

1793, F[rancis] Randolph, Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments Vindicated, against the Reply of Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell, for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 34:

It is well understood that most Unitarians, especially those recently educated, are humanitarians. They deny the preexistence of Christ, and regard him as no more than a highly gifted and Divinely inspired prophet, a man.

1829 January, “Introduction”, in The Spirit of the Pilgrims, volume II, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Peirce and Williams, […], →OCLC, page 7:

He [Charles Spear] is not a Trinitarian nor yet a Humanitarian, but seems to favor what is sometimes called the Superangelic scheme. He appears to have shrunk from relying on Jesus as a man, and to have been unable to perceive the strict identity of the Son with the Father, and so gets for a Saviour a being neither God nor man.

1841 July, “Art VIII.—Literary Notices. [Names and Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ. By Charles Spear. Fourth Edition. […] 1841. 12mo. pp. 400. (book review).]”, in The Boston Quarterly Review, volume IV, number III, Boston, Mass.: Benjamin H. Greene, […], →OCLC, page 392:

(Christianity, rare) One who believes that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.


old school

en-adj

old school (comparative more old school, superlative most old school)

more old school (comparative)
most old school (superlative)
oldschool (alternative)
old-school (alternative)
Old School (alternative)
oldskool (alternative)
old skool (alternative)

→ German: oldschool

The noun is derived from old + school (“followers of a particular doctrine; particular doctrine or way of thinking”), probably a shortening of old school of thinking, old school of thought, or some similar phrase.
The adjective is derived from the attributive form of the noun.

compound

Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue.

1816, “an Old Scene Painter” [pseudonym], The Emigrant’s Guide; or, A Picture of America: […], London: […] W[illiam] Clowes, […] for W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 17:

[W]e both agree that you are defrauding some honest man of his just due. I recommend that you form an acquaintance, with a view to prospective results for life, with some well-settled, Old-School Presbyterian clergyman, and send me some of the cake.

1862 (date written), Ida Husted Harper, quoting Theodore Tilton, “Mob Experience—Civil War. 1861–1862.”, in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony […], volume I, Indianapolis, Ind.; Kansas City, Mo.: The Bowen-Merrill Company, published 1899, →OCLC, page 218:

(US, Christianity, politics) Chiefly in the form Old School: having conservative or traditional views on Christianity or politics.


Visitation

Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

(Christianity) The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on May 30th in Eastern Christianity or May 31st in Western Christianity.


anastasis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”).

bor

(Christianity) resurrection, especially the resurrection of Jesus Christ


ante-Nicene

antenicene (alternative)
Ante-Nicene (alternative)
Antenicene (alternative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to those early Christians who lived before the council of Nicea in 325 AD.

anteniceno

relating Christianity before the council of Nicea in 325AD


autocephalous

en-adj

autocephalous (not generally comparable, comparative more autocephalous, superlative most autocephalous)

more autocephalous (comparative)
most autocephalous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek αὐτοκέφαλος (autoképhalos), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). By surface analysis, auto- + -cephalous.

der

Coordinate term: autonomous

The defenders of Anglican independence maintain that there were anciently Churches autocephalous, dependent on no patriarch, and refer to the Churches of Cyprus as thus constituted, and allege that the British Churches enjoyed the same right of self-government and ordained their own prelates.

1845, Francis Patrick Kenrick, The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated, Philadelphia, page 178:

Poroshenko's speech was viscerally anti-Russian, and his loudest applause line came when he vowed to establish an autocephalous (independent from Moscow) Ukrainian Orthodox Church patriarchate.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 447:

(Christianity, of a church) Fully independent of the authority of any other church.

Coordinate term: autonomous

(Christianity, of a bishop) Presiding over an autocephalous church.


Markan

(Christianity) Of, or relating to Mark the Evangelist.


confessional

The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.

c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:

In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind:

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

rrëfyestore

small room where confession is performed


sacrament of reconciliation

en-noun

sacrament of reconciliation (plural sacraments of reconciliation)

(Roman Catholicism) The sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest.

告解聖事 /告解圣事

sacrament involving contrition, confession, penance, and absolution


Christ child

the Christ child (canonical)
Christ Child (alternative)


anamnesis

anamnesis (countable and uncountable, plural anamneses)

From Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) + μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

affix

(Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.


confirmed

a confirmed Catholic

(Christianity) Having received the rite of confirmation.

konfirmeret

having received the rite of confirmation


psalter

psalters (plural)
sauter (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English psauter & sauter, from Old French psautier & saltier, from Latin psalterium (“a kind of lute or zither”), from Ancient Greek ψᾰλτήρῐον (psăltḗrĭon, “harp”). Doublet of psalterion, psalterium, and psaltery.

quinquagene

a collection of 50 psalms, typically with commentary

(Christianity) Synonym of Psalms, particularly when printed as a separate work from the Bible.

psaltír

a stand-alone copy of the Book of Psalms

(Catholicism) Synonym of breviary, which arranges the Psalms for devotional recitation.

(Catholicism) A rosary with 150 beads, used for reciting the Psalms in Catholic editions of the Bible.


scapular

From Middle English scapelar, from Latin scapulāre, from Latin scapula (“shoulder”). Compare scapulary.

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A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […]

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 30:

She granted the Whitefriars identical powers to the Blackfriars, to bless a part of their friar's habit which draped over their shoulders and was known as the scapular; now laity could wear it and derive spiritual privileges from it.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 409:

(Christianity) A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint.

escapulari

a short cloak with an embroidered image of a saint

(Christianity) A devotional object, typically consisting of two rectangular pieces of cloth (often with an embroidered image or text) joined with cloth bands and worn with one piece over the chest and one in the back.


seven deadly sins

From Middle English dedly synnes sueyn, vij dedly synnes.

(Catholicism) The cardinal sins enumerated by medieval philosophers and theologians: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).


Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesdays (plural)
Ashwednesday (alternative)
Ash-Wednesday (alternative)

From Middle English Aschewednysday, Axwednesdai, from asshe, axe (“ash”) + Wednesdai, Wednysday (“Wednesday”), from the custom of using the blessed ashes of the previous year's palm fronds (cf. Palm Sunday) to mark the heads of the congregation on the day. By surface analysis, ash + Wednesday.

Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes... which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.

1834, Penny Cyclopaedia, volume II, page 454:

(Christianity) The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

Մոխրոտ չորեքշաբթի

the Christian day of penitence 46 days before Easter


Savior

the Savior (canonical)
Saviour (alternative)

مُنْقِذ

(Christianity) Jesus Christ — see also savior, Messiah


modulation

en-noun

modulation (countable and uncountable, plural modulations)

/ˌmɑd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/

From Late Middle English modulacion, modulacioun (“act of making music or singing; harmony; melody, song”), from Middle French modulation (modern French modulation), and directly from its etymon Latin modulātiō (“regular or rhythmical measure, modulation; inflection of tone; (architecture) calculation of measurements from a standard unit; (Late Latin) act of making music or singing; melody, song”), from modulātus (“modulated”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Modulātus is a perfect participle of modulor (“to beat time; to make music or sing; to measure; etc.”), from modulus (“rhythmical measure, interval; rhythm; small interval or measure, etc.”) + -or (suffix forming certain inflections of verbs); and modulus is from modus (“measure; method; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure; etc.”)) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, modulat(e) + -ion (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result).

listen/core

Modulation vocal music example duple.mid

изменение

modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; an instance of this

(countable, Christianity) Any of the musical notes in ecclesiastical modes of music on which a melodic phrase had to begin and end.


the Lord's Anointed

Compare Ancient Greek χριστός (khristós, “[the] anointed [one]”).

m+

And Dauid sayd to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed, and be guiltlesse?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 26:9:

Yes, he wanted power—he wanted to know himself to be the Lord's anointed, His well-beloved, and worthy, nearly, of that snow-white dove which had been sent down from Heaven to testify that Jesus was the Son of God.

1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 94:


Childermas

Childermases (plural)
Childermas-Day (alternative)

From Childermas-Day, from Middle English Childermasse day, from childer (“children”) + masse (“mass, religious service”).

compound

(Christianity) A religious service and holiday commemorating the supposed Massacre of the Innocents in Judea around the time of the birth of Christ, typically observed on 28 December in Western Christianity and 29 December in Eastern Christianity; in Spanish and Latin American contexts, the day is frequently filled with light-hearted pranks similar to April Fools' Day.

Onnozele Kinderen

day commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents


pleroma

en-noun

pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas)

Adam Black
David Don
Wernerian Natural History Society

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleroma (“(Gnosticism) spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”), from Koine Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “(biblical) perfect fullness”), Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing”), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to make full, fill; to complete, finish”) (from πλήρης (plḗrēs, “complete, full”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming verbs with the sense of making someone be or do something)) + -μᾰ (-mă, suffix forming nouns denoting the result or effect of an action).
Sense 1.1 (“plant”) is borrowed from New Latin Pleroma, a genus name coined by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799–1841) in 1822, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă) (see above) to describe the way the seeds of the plant filled the capsule.
Sense 2 (“state of perfect fullness”) is chiefly used in reference to Colossians 2:9 of the Bible: “Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῶῳ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς (Hóti en autôōi katoikeî pân tò plḗrōma tês theótētos sōmatikôs) [For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form]”.

coinage

And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed when People are to be gulled with noiſy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.

1697 May 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), E. W. [i.e., Edward Stillingfleet], “Postscript”, in The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to Mr. [John] Locke’s Letter, Concerning Some Passages Relating to His Essay of Humane Understanding, […], London: […] J. H. for Henry Mortlock […], published 1697, →OCLC, page 143:

(Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.

պլերոմա

state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ


Judica Sunday

From Latin Judica (“Judge!”), from the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 43.

Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.

1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVᵗʰ, XVIᵗʰ and XVIIᵗʰ Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)

The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica''' Sunday, 3Oth March.

1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:

The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.

1950, “Luther League Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Lutheran Church in America:

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.


pornocracy

the Pornocracy (canonical)
Pornocracy (alternative)

/pɔːˈnɒkɹəsɪ/

Alfred Edersheim
Bartolomeo Platina
Bzovius
Pope Sergius III

Probably borrowed from German Pornokratie, first found in the writings of Austrian-born Biblical scholar Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889), from Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “female prostitute”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā, “-cracy”, suffix indicating “government, rule”); analysable as porno- + -cracy.

refn

Bartolomeo Platina, Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giovanni Stringa, Abraamo Bzovio [i.e., Abraham Bzowski, known as Bzovius] with Antonio Bagatta and Nicol'Angelo Caferri (1663) Le vite de’ pontefici di Bartolomeo Platina: dal Saluator Nostro fino a Paolo II. Accresciute con quelle de’ papi da Sisto Quarto fino ad Alessandro VII., da Onofrio Panuinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giouanni Stringa, Abraamo Bzouio e Antonio Bagatta. Con le annotationi del Panuinio, e con la Cronologia ecclesiastica dello stesso. Aggiuntoui la vita del Platina scritta dal Sign. Nicol’Angelo Caferri [The Lives of the Popes of Bartolomeo Platina: From Our Saviour to Paul II. Augmented with those of the Popes from Sixtus IV to Alexander VII, by Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giovanni Stringa, Abraham Bzowski, and Antonio Bagatta. With the Annotations of Panvinio, and with the Ecclesiastical Chronology of the Same. Supplemented with the Life of Platina Written by Sign. Nicol’Angelo Caferri], Venice: Presso Gio, Maria Turrini, e Gio, Pietro Brigonci, →OCLC.

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Under the pornocracy (government of harlots) in the first half of the 10th century, the Papacy was degraded and all Italy torn by factions.

1855, C. Ullmann, “[Second Book. John of Wesel, or The Necessity for the Reformation in Reference to Particular Things in the Church, Especially Indulgences, and the Corruption of the Clergy.] Introduction”, in Robert Menzies, transl., Reformers before the Reformation, Principally in Germany and the Netherlands (Clark's Foreign Theological Library, New Series; VI), volumes I (The Need of a Reformation in Reference to the General Spirit of the Church and Certain Particular Abuses), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38 George Street; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Ward and Co.; Jackson and Walford, etc.; Dublin: John Robertson, and Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, page 166:

Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. This epoch deserves to be designated under the title of the Pornocracy; that is to say, the government of prostitutes, for Theodora, Marozia, and other ladies of rank at that time, placed on the pontifical throne their paramours and their sons, who were no better than themselves.

1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Art. VII.—Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility. The Council and Infallibility: An Address Delivered at Geneva, 10th December 1869, by M. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. Paris: Michel Levy, 1870.”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591:

(Roman Catholicism, historical, often capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family.

Парнакра́тыя

period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscurum


Deposition

(Christianity) The removal of Jesus from the cross.


Tridentine

en-adj

Tridentine (comparative more Tridentine, superlative most Tridentine)

more Tridentine (comparative)
most Tridentine (superlative)

From Latin Tridentīnus (“pertaining to Trent”).

bor

(Catholicism) Pertaining to the form of Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent, often called the Tridentine Mass.

(Catholicism) Aligned with the traditionalist Catholic movement.


obit

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).

Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 582:

(Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.


magistery

en-noun

magistery (countable and uncountable, plural magisteries)

/ˈmæd͡ʒɪstəɹi/

/ˈmæd͡ʒəˌstəɹi/

PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From Middle English magisteri, magistery (“academic degree of Master”), from Latin magisterium (“office of a chief, director, president, or superintendent; teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church; authoritative statement”) (compare Late Latin magisterium (“philosopher’s stone”)), from magister (“master (title for a person in authority or one having a licence from a university to teach liberal arts and philosophy); teacher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns, sometimes denoting groups and offices). Doublet of magisterium. Cognate with French magistère, Old French magisteire.

der

(uncountable, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”)


chasuble

/ˈt͡ʃæzəbəl/

/ˈt͡ʃæsəbəl/

From Middle English chesible, from Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.

1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook)

He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.

1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, pages 133–134:

(Christianity) The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.


annulment

en-noun

annulment (countable and uncountable, plural annulments)

Recorded since the 15th century (sense destruction); from Middle English anullement, partly from annullen (from Middle French annuller, from Latin annūllāre, from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“not any, nothing”) + verbal ending -āre) + -ment (“means to”) (from Latin -mentum) and partly from Middle French annullement. By surface analysis, annul + -ment.

(law, Catholicism) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.

анулиране

invalidation; declaration of something as being invalid


hyperdulia

hyperdulia (usually uncountable, plural hyperdulias)

/hʌɪpəduːˈlʌɪə/

From Medieval Latin hyperdūlīa, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + dūlīa, from Ancient Greek δουλείᾱ (douleíā, “slavery”), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).

der

By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 451:

(Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.


Virgin Mary

en-proper noun

(the) Virgin Mary (plural Virgin Marys or Virgins Mary)

Virgin Marys (plural)
Virgins Mary (plural)

From virgin + Mary, from the belief that Mary was still a virgin when she bore Christ.

They no more supposed that there were as many Jupiters, as images of Jupiter, than the Papists imagine there to be as many Virgins Mary as they have statues and pictures of her.

1819 August, “Religious Retrospect”, in The Antijacobin Review; and Protestant Advocate: or, Monthly Political, and Literary Censor, volume LVI, number 56, London: […] G. Sidney, […]; […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 570:

Now, since there are many ‘sects’ amongst Protestants, and many ‘orders,’ often rival ones, amongst the Roman Catholics, and since there are almost as many Virgins Mary as there are towns who own her sway, so we may expect to find in Palestine many rival ‘orders,’ ‘systems,’ or ‘temples.’

1868, Thomas Inman, Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names: or an Attempt to Trace the Religious Belief, Sacred Rites, and Holy Emblems of Certain Nations. […], volume I, London, Liverpool: […] the Author, page 348:

One of his tableaux for her entry was designed to illustrate the peace brought by the two Virgins Mary: there was the Annunciation to the Virgin at the top of the pageant, a king and queen seated in the centre with Justice and Truth on either side of them, and at the bottom ‘ung iardin nommé le iardin de france’ containing shepherds and shepherdesses singing.

1977, Helen Cooper, Pastoral: Mediaeval Into Renaissance, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 85:

[…] three Virgins Mary, by Bicci di Lorenzo, Lorenzo Monaco, and Filippo Lippi (hall IV); […]

1999, Touring Club of Italy, Florence: A Complete Guide to the Renaissance City, the Surrounding Countryside, and the Chianti Region, Touring Editore, published April 2000, →ISBN, page 139:

Meanwhile, images of black women in this period in Spain and Spanish America appeared in painted portraits, prints, and statues of dark Virgin Marys.

2016, Larissa Brewer-García, “Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America”, in Pamela A. Patton, editor, Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 122:

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.

Maagd Maria

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Virgin, Mother of God, Our Lady, Saint Mary, Theotokos


pallium

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?

1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:

Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 339:

Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 23:

(Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.


detraction

en-noun

detraction (countable and uncountable, plural detractions)

/dɪˈtɹækʃən/

From Middle English detraction, detraccion, detraccioun, from Old French detraccion, from Latin dētractiō.

(Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.


prothonotary

prothonotaries (plural)
protonotary (alternative)

From Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotários), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος (notários), from Latin notārius (“notary”).

der

πρωτονοτάριος

(Roman Catholicism) One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.


logion

/ˈləʊ.ɡɪ.ən/

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From Ancient Greek λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; the word or wisdom of God”) (from λέγω (légō, “I say”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”)) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns).

The Q materials are often thought to have almost exclusively consisted of logia.

The Gospels are evidently independent in their use of their source in the Logia of Matthew; but they all give the logion the same place in their Gospels.

1904, Journal of Biblical Literature, volume 23, [Boston, Mass.]: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 195:

It is in this context that the difficult logion in Matthew concerning the eye (vv. 22–23) is to be understood.

2002, Rudolf Schnackenburg, “Jesus’ Proclamation and Works of Healing (4:17–9:34)”, in Robert R. Barr, transl., The Gospel of Matthew, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:

The central key to unraveling the perplexities of the Thomas gospel is contained basically in the first three logia. According to logion 1, which is actually a statement by the apostle Thomas, not by Jesus, the one who finds the interpretation or meaning of Jesus' secret sayings will not taste of death.

2011, Samuel Zinner, “The Gospel of Thomas: A Contextual Commentary”, in The Gospel of Thomas: In the Light of Early Jewish, Christian and Islamic Esoteric Trajectories: With a Contextualized Commentary and a New Translation of the Thomas Gospel (Matheson Monographs), London: The Matheson Trust for the Study of Comparative Religion, →ISBN, page 261:

(specifically, Christianity) A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context.

logion

a saying that is attributed to Jesus but which is not in the Bible


Saint Mary

Shen Merija

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Virgin Mary, Theotokos


tribune

From Middle English tribune, from Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribunus (“tribune, tribal leader”), from tribus (“tribe”).

(Christianity, architecture) The domed or vaulted apse in a cathedral housing the bishop's throne (see).

tribuna

domed or vaulted apse in a Christian church


chaplet

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.

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The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.

(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.

(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.


renunciation

en-noun

renunciation (countable and uncountable, plural renunciations)

From Latin renūntiātiō. Compare renounce.

(Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.


short shrift

short shrift (countable and uncountable, plural short shrifts)

/ˌʃɔːt ˈʃɹɪft/

/ˌʃɔɹt ˈʃɹɪft/

From short + shrift (“act of going to or hearing a religious confession; confession to a priest”). Shrift is derived from Middle English shrift (“confession to a priest; act or instance of this; sacrament of penance; penance assigned by a priest; penitence, repentance; punishment for sin”) [and other forms], from Late Old English scryft, Old English sċrift (“penance, shrift; something prescribed as punishment, penalty; one who passes sentence, a judge”), from sċrīfan (“of a priest: to prescribe absolution or penance; to pass judgment, ordain, prescribe; to appoint, decree”) (whence shrive), from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- (“to scratch, tear”).

nb...

schrift, schrifte, scheryft, schryft, schryfte, scrifft, scrifte, sherift, shirfte, shreft, shrif, shrifft, shrifte, shrive, shruft, shryft, shryfte, (Kent, Southwest England) ssriffe, ssrift, ssrifthe, ssrifþe, ssrifte, ssryft, ssryfte, (chiefly Northern England or Early Middle English) scrif, scrift, scrifte, shreft, (Early Middle English) screft, srift, srifte

der

Diſpatch my Lo[rd] the Duke would be at dinner: / Make a ſhort ſhrift, he longs to ſee your head.

c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

I pray you, tell my kind cousin, if he loves such companions, he had best keep them in his own estates; for here they are like to meet short shrift and a tight cord.

1823, [Walter Scott], “The Envoy”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 213:

"Doubt not my sanctity," interrupted the Friar, "or I shall be necessitated to convince thee, by shewing thee a cast of my office which will make thee repent of thy error. I am used to give short shrifts and sharp cords."

1829, T. D., “A Tale of Robin Hood”, in The Whitby Magazine, and Monthly Literary Journal, volume III, Whitby, North Yorkshire: Ralph Horne, […], →OCLC, page 108:

"I demand a brief space and a confessor, to make my peace with heaven." […] "Grant his request," said the archbishop, in a careless tone, which showed that he only spoke to save appearances; "my chaplain, upon whose discretion I can rely, will make short shrift with them."

1853, J[ohn] F[rederick] Smith, “[Elizabeth Woodville] Chapter III”, in Romantic Incidents in the Lives of the Queens of England, New York, N.Y.: Garrett & Company, […], →OCLC, pages 34–35:

[A]n hour was allotted him to make peace with the Unknown; ropes were placed around the necks of the three, and at the end of the time they were given short shrift, and were soon hanging between heaven and earth.

1893, “Story of the Pony Express”, in John M. Burke (“Arizona John”), compiler, “Buffalo Bill” from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West […], Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 120:

(countable, uncountable, chiefly Roman Catholicism, historical) A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.


commentator

commentators (plural)
commentatour (alternative)

In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary.

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

(Christianity) A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.


Sim

A Simeonite (follower of Charles Simeon).

(by extension) A person with Methodist tendencies.


Sim

From the title of The Sims, which most likely came from clipping of simulation, as The Sims, SimCity, and related franchises are simulation games; compare sim (“simulator, simulation”).

en:any of the characters in the video game The Sims

(video games) Any of the characters in the video game The Sims, which simulates aspects of a human social environment.

Near-synonym: NPC

(often derogatory) Someone who is, or is accused of, acting like a bumbling fool.


offertory

/ˈɑfəɹˌtɔɹi/

From Late Latin offertorium, from the participle stem of offere (“to offer”).

offertorium

the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service

дарение

money offered or donated during a church service

There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

(Christianity) A prayer said or sung as an anthem while offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar during the Roman Catholic Mass or the Anglican Communion service.

Offertorium

music sung or played during the offertory of a church service

Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory, as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.

1914, Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich:

I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional.

1922, Upton Sinclair, They Call Me Carpenter:

Even the coins in the offertory were accredited with magical value; there were numerous popular superstitions about the magical value of communion silver as a cure for illness or a lucky charm against danger.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 30:

(Christianity) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected.

collecte

the part of a church service when offerings are collected

(Christianity, historical) A linen or silken cloth anciently used in various ceremonies connected with the administration of the Eucharist.


Sabellian

(Christianity) A follower of the Roman Christian prelate and theologian Sabellius.

(Christianity) A Modalistic Monarchian; someone who believes that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the same person.


confessor

confessors (plural)
confessour (alternative obsolete)

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

Coordinate term: confessant

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


Clare

Medieval English vernacular form of Clara, from the Latin clara, feminine of clarus (“bright, shining, clear”), a post-classical name made famous by the 13th century Saint Clara of Assisi.
In Oxfordshire, from Clarora, a clay slope.

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

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

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


purgatory

en-noun

purgatory (countable and uncountable, plural purgatories)

/ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi/

/ˈpɜːɡət(ə)ɹi/

From Middle English purgatorie, from Old French purgatore, purgatorie, from Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing”). Cognate to English purge.

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory


archdiocese

/ˌɑɹt͡ʃˈdaɪəsɪs/

Ultimately from Medieval Latin archdiocesis, variant of archidioecēsis, from archi- (“chief, main”) + Late Latin dioecēsis, q.v., equivalent to arch- + diocese.

(Christianity) A group of dioceses administered by an archbishop


Arian

From Late Latin Arianus, from Arius + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἄρειος (Áreios), from ἄρειος (áreios, “Arean, warlike”), from Ἄρης (Árēs, “Ares”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming adjectives”). Cf. Arean.

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church.

(Christianity) A believer of Arianism, particularly (historical) the official Arian churches lasting to the 7th century.

(Christianity, inexact, usually derogatory) Synonym of unitarian, any Christian who denies the Trinity.

(Christianity, inexact, derogatory, dated) Synonym of heretic, any Christian differing from any of the beliefs of the speaker.


Arian

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to Arius or Arianism.


prophesy

en-verb

prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)

prophesies (present singular third-person)
prophesying (participle present)
prophesied (participle past)
prophesied (past)
prophecy (alternative dated)

From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”).

1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,
[…] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.

(intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.


deacon

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

der

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

diaken

(Christianity) By extension, a modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.

(Orthodoxy, Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.

شَمَّاس

(Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.

(Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.

(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.


deacon

en-verb

deacon (third-person singular simple present deacons, present participle deaconing, simple past and past participle deaconed)

deacons (present singular third-person)
deaconing (participle present)
deaconed (participle past)
deaconed (past)

(Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.


high priest

high priests (plural)
highpriest (alternative)


Lammastide

(Christianity) The religious festival of Lammas.


Septuagesima

From Latin septuagesima dies (“70th day”).

(Christianity) A Sunday in the Christian calendar nine weeks before Easter Sunday.


Sexagesima

from Latin sexagesima dies, from the feminine of sexagesimus '60th' + dies 'day'

(Christianity) In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.


Quinquagesima

From Medieval Latin quinquagesima dies (“50th day”).

bor

(Christianity) A moveable feast in the Christian calendar on the Sunday 49 days before Easter Sunday (50 days counting inclusively).


Emmanuel

Immanuel (Biblical figure whose birth is foretold).

(Christianity) Immanuel (this figure, regarded by Christians as the Christ).