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Brewer's: Particularists
Those who hold the doctrine of particular election and reprobation. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PartingParticular Baptists A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Six Points
(See People's Charter.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Six-Principle BaptistsSix Nations A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…Brewer's: Baptes
(2 syl.). Priests of the goddess Cotytto, whose midnight orgies were so obscene that they disgusted even Cotytto, the goddess of obscenity. They received their name from the Greek verb…Brewer's: John the Almoner
Chrysostom was so called, because he bestowed so large a portion of his revenues on hospitals and other charities. (347-407.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Sabiens
is the Aramean equivalent of the word “Baptists.” (See below.) “The sects of Hemerobaptists, Baptists, and Sabiens (the Mogtasila of the Arabian writers) in the second century filled Syria…Brewer's: Parti
(A). An eligible person for a big marriage. “Prince Frederick Leopold is a parti, as he has inherited the bulk of his father's immense fortune [twenty-four millions sterling].” —Newspaper…Man, Isle of
(Encyclopedia) Man, Isle of, island and dependency of the British crown (2015 est. pop. 83,000), 227 sq mi (588 sq km), off Great Britain, in the Irish Sea. The coast is rocky with precipitous cliffs…Windsor, town, England
(Encyclopedia) WindsorWindsorwĭnˈzər [key], town (1991 pop. 31,544), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. There is some light industry and printing. The town is a popular…Brewer's: John Tamson's Man
a henpecked husband: one ordered here, and ordered there and ordered everywhere. Tameson —i.e. spiritless, the slave even of a Tame-son. “`The deil's in the wife!' said Cuddie. `Dye think…fundamentalism
(Encyclopedia) fundamentalism. 1 In Protestantism, religious movement that arose among conservative members of various Protestant denominations early in the 20th cent., with the object of maintaining…Trending
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