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Abecedarian
noun · 78% connection
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Abelonian
noun · 78% connection
One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the ma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Abstinent
adjective · 78% connection
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Anglo-Saxon
noun · 78% connection
A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old"…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Babism
noun · 78% connection
The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Pars…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Basilica
noun · 78% connection
Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were he…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Bodleian
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Cynic
adjective · 78% connection
Alt. of Cynical
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Della Crusca
unknown · 78% connection
A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Encratite
noun · 78% connection
One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Hesychast
noun · 78% connection
One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Homeopathy
noun · 78% connection
The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Irvingite
noun · 78% connection
The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving (about 1830), who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Isidorian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Jacobite
noun · 78% connection
A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
Jainism
noun · 78% connection
The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mohammedan, sect, founded, ninth, century.
