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A follower of Acacius of Caesarea, a 4th-century bishop.
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(historical) A Paulician, a member of an early medieval Christian sect.
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Alternative form of Acoemetae [(historical) An order of fifth-century monks who, by turns, kept up a divine service day and night.]
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A member of the Agapemone religious sect.
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an adherent to Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France
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(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to those early Christians who lived before the council of Nicea in 325 AD.
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(Christianity, historical) One of an ancient sect of Christians who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
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(historical) A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.
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(historical) Synonym of Berean (“member of 18th-century Scottish Protestant sect”)
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(Eastern Orthodoxy) An advocate of Barlaamite views, an opponent of Hesychasm.
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A group of Old Believers who reject priests and a number of church rites such as the Eucharist.
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The beliefs and practices of the Bogomils.
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(historical, religion) Of, pertaining to or adhering to Bogomilism.
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A member of a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidians. They believed that Bible prophecies of a final divine judgment were coming to pass as a prelude to Christ's Second Coming, and were involved in a fatal siege in 1993 near Waco, Texas.
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A supporter of Frank Buchman (1878–1961), Protestant Christian evangelist who founded the Oxford Group.
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Of or relating to this sect.
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A scholar in the Didache
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(derogatory) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
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A follower of Eudoxius of Antioch (died in 370), patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
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(Christianity, historical) An adherent of Matthias Flacius' view of original sin, rejected by the Formula of Concord.
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(dated) A Dominican friar.
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Initialism of Judeo-Christian. [(Judaism, Christianity) Somebody who follows both Judaism and Christianity.]
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A follower of the sect of Saint John the Baptist
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A member of a late 1920s-1940s movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, followers of Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh).
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(historical) A supporter of the emperor Justinian.
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(historical) A member of a 17th-century Protestant religious community movement founded by Jean de Labadie (1610–1674), a French pietist.
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A member of the Society of Saint Pius X, an international traditionalist Catholic organisation.
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(historical) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
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A follower or member of the Mariavite Church.
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A member of the Maronite Church.
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The social and religious practices of the Maronites.
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Pertaining to Martin Marprelate.
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Of or relating to Matthew the Apostle.
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(historical) A member of the Congregation of St. Maur, a scholarly group of French Benedictines established in 1621.
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(historical) In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.
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A member of a Christian sect that evolved from "Spiritual Christian" Russian peasants who refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church, beginning in the 1600s in the Russian Empire as an indigenous adaptation of the Protestant movement from Europe. Named for their heresy of eating (including dairy foods), instead of fasting, during Lent.
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(Christianity, sometimes derogatory) The beliefs and practices of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
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(historical, politics) A follower of Lewis Morris, an American revolutionary and Federalist politician.
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A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
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(sometimes derogatory) A perceived follower of Nestorius in the fourth and fifth centuries. A member of a Nestorian church.
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(Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.
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Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
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Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.
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Of or pertaining to Orthodox beliefs.
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(historical) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Jesus.
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(historical) A follower of Paulicianism.
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A follower of the apostle Paul.
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(historical) A member of an ancient Jewish political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). The movement was ultimately the basis for most contemporary forms of Judaism.
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(historical) A member of a 17th-century Protestant religious group in England.
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(Christianity) A follower of the Roman Christian prelate and theologian Sabellius.
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A student or master at the Sorbonne.
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(historical) A member of a large sect of Russian radical Protestant dissenters founded near Odessa around 1860, who adhere to a literal reading of the Bible and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship, influenced by German Protestant settlers.
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Of or relating to the French Catholic Sacred Heart congregation founded by Joseph-Marie Timon-David.
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(religion, Christianity) Of or pertaining to Western Christianity.
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Alternative form of Wycliffite [(historical) A follower of John Wycliffe.]
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John Zonaras (fl. 12th C.), Byzantine Constantinopolitan chronicler and theologian
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