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Pertaining to or characteristic of a high priest; priestly.
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(Catholicism) The minor order of acolytes.
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(religion) A leader of a heresy, a most prominent or leading heretic.
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Alternative spelling of baptistry. [(Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.]
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Of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.
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Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.
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(historical) A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of the same race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation.
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(Christianity) One who practices catechesis, i.e., catechizes catechumens; a teacher who instructs students in the doctrines of a particular Christian denomination typically in preparation for confirmation.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling Cato the Elder; severe and inflexible.
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A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
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(Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
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(Catholicism, historical) A member of one of the four minor orders of the Catholic Church.
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(historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.
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(Christianity) One of a group of churches (usually a pair) which share the function of being the seat of a bishop.
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(Christianity) The administrator of a religious community.
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A member or supporter of the Conventuals, a Franciscan order.
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The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Part of the vestment worn by bishops and some priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church, somewhat similar to a maniple.
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(somewhat nonstandard) Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
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In West Africa, a mediator between the spirit and living worlds, usually performing rituals at a shrine.
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(Christianity) The Charismatic and Evangelical Christian belief that five offices mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, namely those of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors (or "shepherds") and teachers, remain active and valid offices in the contemporary church.
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(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A religious preacher who visits homes to promote his or her beliefs.
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(biblical) The subject of a particular New Testament parable.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A missionary, or distributor of religious tracts.
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(obsolete) A hermit; an eremite.
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(informal) A minister or preacher.
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A man who has devoted himself to religious practice, especially one who has absented himself from society to follow his religion; an ascetic or saint.
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Obsolete spelling of heresiarch (alternative form of haeresiarch) [(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy.]
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(historical, Eastern Orthodox Church) A cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre.
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Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
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(astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
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Of or pertaining to freemasonry.
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(slang, derogatory, specifically) A megachurch.
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Relaxation of monastic rules.
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Of or pertaining to monks or their lifestyle; monastic.
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A person with monastic ways; a monk.
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(rare) One who practices monasticism; a monastic.
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Obsolete form of monastic. [A person with monastic ways; a monk.]
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Obsolete spelling of monk [A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.]
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(Internet slang) a primitive way of living
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(dated, collectively) Monks, considered as a group. (Compare clergy, laity.)
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Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
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Like or befitting a monk.
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(Christianity) The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members.
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(obsolete, religious slur) A Roman Catholic priest.
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(Roman Catholicism) A celibate lay member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.
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A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
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(Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.
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Alternative form of papabile [Thought to be among those likely to be elected pope.]
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(often derogatory) the Roman Catholic faith
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(derogatory) The Roman Catholic faith.
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(Catholic canon law) Any of the individual constituent hierarchically ordered ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole.
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(Christianity) A collection of canons of general councils in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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(historical) A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch.
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(biblical) Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.
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(Ireland, informal, derogatory) A newcomer in the Church of Ireland; an Irish Anglican by conviction.
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(usually derogatory, Christianity) The teachings, practices and accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Someone who preaches, especially a Dominican friar
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A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
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The world or society of Quakers.
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(uncommon) Quaker or Quaker-like.
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(historical) One of an order of monks devoted to the redemption of Christian captives from slavery.
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A person in charge of food and drink in a monastery.
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A man bound by monastic vows; a monk.
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One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
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(historical) A secret sect in tsarist Russia, known for practising castration and mastectomy in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust.
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(informal) The characteristics of the Anglo-Catholic or "high" Anglican Church.
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(initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.
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Alternative form of stauropegion [(initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.]
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The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in catholic churches.
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(uncommon) The practice of regularly attending a synagogue.
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A member of a church synod.
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A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
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A monk or nun of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (a branch of the Cistercians Roman Catholic religious brotherhood that use a particularly strict interpretation of the Rule of St Benedict).
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(theology) Respecting the supremacy of the Pope.
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Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
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