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Ablution
noun · 78% connection
A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Albigeois
n. pl. · 78% connection
A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Antinomian
noun · 78% connection
One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, 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: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Biology
noun · 78% connection
The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Blank
noun · 78% connection
A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Ceroplastics
noun · 78% connection
the art of modeling in wax.; "Although too late in date for Piranesi to have been directly influenced by this set, the Italian origins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Cid
noun · 78% connection
Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish roya…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Confessional
noun · 78% connection
The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Cure
noun · 78% connection
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Ephod
noun · 78% connection
A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Flota
noun · 78% connection
A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, 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: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Haversian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Huyghenian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Illuminati
verb · 78% connection
The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Jacobite
noun · 78% connection
One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
Laocoon
noun · 78% connection
A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as descr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sect, mystics, originated, seventeenth, century.
