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Acolyte
noun · 78% connection
someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Armenian
noun · 78% connection
An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Call
verb · 78% connection
To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a mili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Catholic
noun · 78% connection
An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Church
noun · 78% connection
A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Confirmation
noun · 78% connection
A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Congregation
noun · 78% connection
A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Dauphin
noun · 78% connection
The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinue…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Dey
noun · 78% connection
The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Doorkeeper
noun · 78% connection
the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Elder
adjective · 78% connection
A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Entitle
verb · 78% connection
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, designation, sect, founded, edward.
Exorcist
noun · 78% connection
one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
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Gallicanism
noun · 78% connection
The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the…
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Glassite
noun · 78% connection
A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught t…
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Gymnosophist
noun · 78% connection
One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the u…
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Harmonite
noun · 78% connection
One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their…
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