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SAINT |
Holy one |
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SWAMI |
Crawled through the water to one holy man |
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SANCTIFIER |
One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the
Holy Spirit. |
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GUIDON |
One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne,
to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land. |
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SERVITE |
One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy
Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223. |
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PROFANER |
One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles
what is holy; one who uses profane language. |
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SACRAMENTALIST |
One who holds the doctrine of the real objective
presence of Christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist. |
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PERSON |
Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the
Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. |
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LITERATE |
One educated, but not having taken a university degree;
especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. |
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PARACLETE |
An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the
Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy
Spirit. |
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NOETIAN |
One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third
century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost. |
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SABBATARIAN |
One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week
as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the
Decalogue. |
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PALMER |
A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a
branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its
sacred places. |
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CRUSADE |
Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by
Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the
recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans. |
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PILGRIM |
One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some
holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury
pilgrims. See Palmer. |
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HYPOSTASIS |
Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality;
-- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three
subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
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TRINITY |
The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to
substance, but three persons as to individuality. |
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MACEDONIAN |
One of a certain religious sect, followers of
Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held
that the Holy Ghost was a c... |
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CANON |
The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures,
called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty,
given by ins... |
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EXORCISE |
To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by
conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to
expel (a demon) or to con... |
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CANDIDATE |
...te for the office of governor; a
candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. ... |
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SABELLIAN |
A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the
third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the
Godhead, and that th... |
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METHODIST |
One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small
association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D.
1729, of which the ... |
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TEMPLAR |
One of a religious and military order first established at
Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of
pilgrims and... |
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ERASTIAN |
... physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the
punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and
that hol... |