n
(historical) A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from reaching obtaining salvation.
n
(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A religion icon (chiefly of Christ or the Virgin Mary) believed not to have been created by human hands; a miraculous image.
n
(now historical) The base of a religious sect established in Sussex by the Rev. Henry James Prince in the mid-19th century, or a successor establishment in London, which were associated with free love and polygamy.
n
A similar experience among his followers.
n
(Christianity) A member of the group who supported the inclusion of the Apocrypha in the Bible
n
(Christianity) Any of the group of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to preach and spread the Gospel.
n
(historical) Synonym of Berean (“member of 18th-century Scottish Protestant sect”)
n
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Scottish Protestant sect who derived all knowledge of God from the Bible.
n
Alternative form of Bible thumper. [(derogatory) A Christian fundamentalist or overzealous evangelical Christian.]
n
(religion, US) A member of the Church of Jesus Christ founded in 1862 in Pennsylvania.
n
(slang) One who proselytises or assimilates.
n
The Church of Almighty God
n
A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church.
n
A member of certain so self-styled Novatian and other medieval Christian sects embracing a form of dualism and extraordinary practices purportedly adhering to Mary Magdalene's teachings, persecuted by Roman Catholics as heretics.
n
(palaeography) A stylised siglum or character interpreted as an invocation of Christ in Merovingian and Carolingian documents.
n
(historical) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
n
(Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism.
n
Nonstandard form of chrisom. [(historical) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.]
n
(theology) The Incarnation, considered as a historical event rather than a matter of theology.
n
Alternative letter-case form of Christard [(slang, religious slur) A stupid Christian, or a person to be considered stupid for adherence to religious faith in general or to the Christian faith in particular. Compare Jewtard.]
n
Obsolete form of Christian. [A believer in Christianity.]
n
A believer in Christianity.
n
The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the (assumed) birth of Jesus Christ.
n
A first name formally given to a child at a Christian baptism.
n
Alternative form of Christendom [The Christian world.]
n
(rare) a female Christian
n
(Hong Kong) Protestantism.
adj
Alternative form of Christian-like. [Befitting a Christian.]
adj
Resembling Christianity.
adj
(informal, slightly derogatory) Characteristically or stereotypically resembling a Christian
adj
Of or relating to Christ.
adj
(theology, Christianity) Formed like, or acting in accordance with, Christ.
adj
Of a form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.
n
A form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.
n
Obsolete form of chrisom. [(historical) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.]
n
A person who hates or fears Christ, Christians, or the Christian religion.
n
Alternative form of chrisom [(historical) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.]
n
Alternative form of chrisom [(historical) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.]
adj
Of or pertaining to John Chrysostom, early Archbishop of Constantinople
n
(Christianity, historical) A member of fanatical bands of predatory peasants that flourished in North Africa in the 4th century. They were associated with Donatists and sought death by martyrdom.
n
(derogatory) Church of Scientology
n
The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.
n
(Christianity) God's promise of eternal life for all people who have faith in Christ.
n
(derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
n
A member of a particular offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventists.
n
(Christianity) Those people in the same family descent as Jesus Christ.
adj
Of or relating to Druidism.
n
A member of the Church of the Brethren.
adj
Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany.
n
A church of Lutherans in the United States of America, tending to be liberal, in contrast with the conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.
n
(obsolete) A fellow Christian.
n
One of a Christian sect founded around 1730.
n
(Christian theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the Word of God, which became flesh—incarnated—in Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.
n
(Protestantism) The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
n
Alternative letter-case form of great chain of being [(Christianity, historical) A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, descending from God through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals, and thought in medieval times to have been decreed by God.]
n
(Christianity, historical) The split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in 1054.
n
Alternative form of Heilsgeschichte [(theology) History seen as the work of God's salvation. (Especially, in Christianity, the history of the Old Testament, seen as a preparation for the coming of Christ.)]
n
(historical) A Christological document issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482, in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of the Council of Chalcedon and the council's opponents.
n
(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.
n
Alternative form of Hicksism [(US, historical) The religious principles of the Hicksites.]
n
A religious follower of Hierax.
n
(Christianity, rare) One who believes that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.
adj
of or relating to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th century Spanish knight who founded the Jesuits
n
A member of the Christian church Jehovah's Witnesses.
n
(religion) A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.
n
(Christianity) The teachings or worship of Jesus, as opposed to Christianity as a whole.
n
(slang, derogatory) Synonym of Christian
adj
of, or pertaining to John, usually John the Apostle or John the Baptist.
n
A variety of messianic Judaism which believed that John the Baptist was the Saviour, the Christ.
n
(historical) A messianic separatist Spiritualist sect influenced by Anabaptism during the 16th century, viewing its leader David Joris as the third David and stressing direct guidance by the Holy Spirit and the achievement of total righteousness under the Law (Pentateuch).
adj
(religion, rare) Concerning preaching, particularly preaching of the gospels.
adj
(Christianity) Of or relating to the Keswick Convention.
n
(Christianity, specifically) Heaven or paradise.
n
A conservative Lutheran revival movement started in the middle of the 19th century, marked by pietistic and Moravian influences, and having many members in the Nordic countries.
n
A follower of Archbishop William Laud
n
(archaic, derogatory) Christian missionary work in China that accommodates Chinese beliefs.
n
Alternative letter-case form of mandylion. [(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) often Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic.]
adj
Of or pertaining to the branch of Christianity that descends from the religious societies overseen by John Wesley (1703–1791) among others.
adj
Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene.
n
(historical) One of the Iberian Muslims and Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, or their known baptized descendants.
n
(Christianity) Jesus Christ's exhortation to "love one another", part of the final instructions given to his disciples after the Last Supper.
n
The first official creed of the early Christian church, stating the basic tenets of the Christian faith, including the nature of the Holy Trinity.
n
A Roman priest, who became an antipope against St. Cornelius in 251 AD, and considered by the Catholic Church to be a schismatic heresiarch as founder of a Christian sect known as Novatianism
n
(Christianity) The Quakers.
n
(Christianity) A person who is not yet a Christian, regarded as a potential convert.
n
The cult of Elvis Presley, especially in the southern United States
n
One who believes that Jesus Christ was a mere man.
n
(Christianity) The Athanasian Creed.
n
A member of the Quiverfull religious movement.
n
A member of certain modern groups or organizations formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
n
Synonym of messiah complex
n
A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.
n
A Protestant Christian denomination (one of its founders was Ellen White), emphasizing Sabbath observance, a healthy diet, and the soon return of Jesus Christ. It grew out of the Millerite movement (Millerism).
n
(Christianity, historical) A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.
n
The first Christian martyr.
n
Alternative form of Theatine [(religion) A member of a Catholic order established in 1524 in Italy, which consisted of monks and later, nuns under the direction of the monks.]
adj
(Jehovah's Witnesses) Conforming to God-rule, by Christian behavior.
n
(Christianity, with the definite article) Christianity.
n
A Christian Masonic rite founded in Lyon, France, in 1778; one of the three branches of Martinism.
n
Abbreviation of Christianity. [An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.]
adj
Abbreviation of Christian. [(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.]
n
(historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 7 letters and means "Relating to marshes or swamps." Can you find it?