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1. ablegate, n. View full entry 1817
...An envoy of the Holy See who brings the insignia of office to a newly appointed cardinal....
2. Abominable Snowman, n. View full entry 1921
...= yeti...
3. Adventist, n. View full entry 1843
...A member of any of various Christian sects emphasizing belief in the imminent Second Coming of Christ; spec. a follower of William Miller (17821849), who predicted that...
4. Agapemone, n. View full entry 1849
...Chiefly with the. The headquarters of the religious sect founded by the Rev. Henry James Prince (181199) at Spaxton in Somerset in the mid 19th cent. (cf....
5. † ˈanchorist, n. View full entry 1651
...= anchorite, including anchoress Also attrib....
6. bris, n. View full entry 1938
...The ceremony in which a Jewish male is circumcised, traditionally performed on his eighth day of life; = brit milah...
7. brit, n.2 View full entry 1856
...= brit milah...
8. Broederbond, n. View full entry 1935
...A largely secret society (founded in 1918) promoting the interests of and restricted in membership to male, Protestant Afrikaners....
9. ˈcassock, v. View full entry 1883
...To dress in a cassock....
10. catawampous, adj. View full entry 1840
...Fierce, unsparing, destructive. Also, askew, awry. (A high-sounding word with no very definite meaning.)...
11. communalist, n. and adj. View full entry 1871
...An advocate of communalism (communalism1); esp. a member or supporter of the Paris Commune of 1871, a Communard. Now rare (hist....
12. confirmand, n. View full entry 1884
...A candidate for confirmation....
13. deˈvotioner, n. View full entry 1883
...A member of a guild of devotion; a devotionary....
14. dominee, n. View full entry 1950
...A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in S. Africa; = predikant...
15. enhat, v. View full entry 1925
...trans. To invest with a cardinal's hat....
16. † Genevated, adj. View full entry 1609
...Characteristic of Calvinism; reformed according to the Calvinist model....
17. genizah, n. View full entry 1897
...A store-room or repository for damaged, discarded, or heretical books and papers and sacred relics, attached to many synagogues; also, the contents of a genizah....
18. Hoa Hao, n. View full entry 1955
...A form of nationalistic Buddhism, set up in 1939 in Indo-China by Huynh Phu So. Freq. attrib. Cf. Caodaism...
19. Iftar, n. View full entry 1858
...The breaking of the fast, after sunset, during Ramadan; the meal eaten at this time....
20. installant, adj. and n. View full entry 1880
...That installs....
