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单词 essene
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Essenen.

Brit. /ˈɛsiːn/, /ɛˈsiːn/, U.S. /əˈsin/, /ɛˈsin/, /ˈɛˌsin/
Forms: Also 1500s essen.
Etymology: < Latin Essēni plural, < Greek Ἐσσηνοί ; presumably of Hebrew or Aramaic origin, but the etymology is disputed. See the 19 different suggestions in Ginsburg The Essenes (1864) 27–30. Compare -ene suffix.
One of an ancient Jewish sect, characterized by certain mystical tenets and ascetic practices, and by a cenobitical life.
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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 33 The Essens, of whom Josephus speaketh that thei wil neither haue wyfe nor servauntes.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxv. 448 It wil not be amisse to rehearse this record of Porphyrins, that the Religious sect of the Essens among the Iewes..made a profession of Prophesying.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 390 Many, as the Pharisees and Essenes, had recourse to this great Source of Comfort.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 197 Why so impatient to baptize them Essenes, or Port-Royalists, or Shakers.

Derivatives

Eˈssenian adj. also 1700s -ien, pertaining to, or resembling, the Essenes.
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1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 496 The survivors..were half Christian and Essenian.
Eˈssenic adj.
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1859 T. De Quincey Wks. X. Pref. p. ix The two codes of practical doctrine—Christian and Essenic.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. lv. 542 The Essenic elements which were destined to ripen into Gnosticism.
Eˈssenical adj. of the nature of Essenism.
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) This Essenicall piety in observing the Sabbath.
ˈEssenism n. (a) the doctrine and practice of the Essenes; (b) a leaning to the doctrine of the Essenes.
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1852 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 21 Jan. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1884) I. v. 218 He..traces Essenism back to Egypt, and thence to India.
1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 178 The deliverance of the individual in the shipwreck of the whole..was the plain watchword of Essenism.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 18 Critics have spoken of the Essenism and the Ebionism of the Epistle [of St. James].
ˈEssenize v. to assert or favour the tenets of the Essenes.
ˈEssenizing adj.
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1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 118 Ewald..points out..an Essenizing Sibylline poem.
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