n
A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
n
An adherent, one who practices or follows a belief.
n
(Christianity) The quality of being apostolical; apostolicity.
adj
(religion) Highly heretical; being or relating to arch-heresy.
adj
(religion) Relating to attempts to attract worshippers to a church
n
A strong urge to become religious.
v
To give oral instruction, especially of religion; (specifically) by the formal question-and-answer method; in the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church, to teach the catechism as preparation for confirmation.
adj
Of or pertaining to congregationalism
n
The system or practice of a cult.
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Alternative form of devotionalist [One given to devotion, especially to excessive formal devotion.]
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(theology) Any law (or rule) that, in the opinion of believers, comes directly from the will of God (or a god).
n
Any ecclesiastical polity as revealed by scripture.
adj
Obsolete form of ecclesiastic. [Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.]
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Alternative form of episcotister [A disc with opaque and transparent sectors that is rapidly rotated to reduce the intensity of a light source.]
n
The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
adj
(chiefly US, euphemistic) of civic associations connected with religious groups, specifically of such organizations sponsored by government funds
adj
Archaic spelling of heretical. [Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.]
n
(obsolete) A petty or contemptible heretic.
adj
Obsolete form of heretic. [(archaic) Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.]
adj
arranged in a hierarchy
n
(obsolete) A sacred or holy work or worship.
adj
Conforming to accepted standards or beliefs.
n
Obsolete form of heretic. [Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.]
n
(Protestantism) A title for a lay leader who has not been ordained as a pastor, particularly a youth group leader.
n
(Christianity, historical) Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities.
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
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Relating to a (religious) mission.
n
Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
n
The parish register of a nonconformist church or chapel.
adv
In the role of a pastor
n
(chiefly Christianity) Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners.
adj
Relating to religion or religious works.
adv
Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.
n
(derogatory) A behaviour, belief, etc. that is characteristic of Quakers.
n
(religion) One who believes in the rapture.
n
The assignment of religion to a society
n
excessive religious ardour or zeal
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a religion.
n
The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.
n
The academic study of religious beliefs, behaviours and institutions.
adj
Having a strongly religious aspect.
adj
(religion) Of or pertaining to the revelations of a divinity to humankind.
n
(uncountable) The type of religion which relies on communication originating directly from a divine being (as reported by prophets, mystics, disciples, etc.) to establish what religious beliefs are authoritative and acceptable.
adv
(religion, archaic) With the necessary rites.
n
One excessively concerned with religious ritual.
adv
In a sacerdotal manner, in the manner of a priest.
adj
Relating to, or holding, such views.
adj
Of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental.
adj
Relating to or providing salvation.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Society of the Divine Savior (Societas Divini Salvatoris in Latin), a Roman Catholic religious order.
adv
For the purpose of salvation.
n
An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.
n
(Christianity) A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.
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(religion) A religious self-improvement group.
v
(Christianity) Among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians: to cause a person (through prayer, anointing, laying on of hands, etc.) to fall to the floor in religious ecstasy, attributed to the power of the Holy Spirit.
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(countable) A particular belief within a religion.
n
The worldview that regards white people as saviors and other groups as needing to be saved by them.
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