#religious definition

• Adamite — A person belonging to an early or medieval Christian religious sect that preached a return to the paradisiacal innocence of Adam before the commission of original sin. As an adjective, the term describes the followers or characteristics of this radical ascetic movement, renowned for practicing ritual nudism and completely rejecting social institutions, private property, and clothing during secret gatherings.
• Anathematized — Having undergone anathema; struck by the supreme ecclesiastical curse, solemnly excommunicated, and definitively excluded from the religious community of believers. In an extended or figurative sense, the term describes an individual, a doctrine, a book, or a concept vehemently rejected, publicly condemned, repudiated by society, and doomed to isolation or oblivion.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual oblivion, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual oblivion, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Antipascha — A theological and liturgical name for the first Sunday after the Resurrection of Christ, also known in Eastern Christian tradition as Thomas Sunday. This structural feast does not signify an opposition to Holy Easter, but translates from Greek as 'instead of Easter' or 'the renewal of Easter', marking the closing of the Easter octave and the renewal of the Resurrection celebration through the confession of Apostle Thomas.