单词 | essene |
释义 | Essenen. One of an ancient Jewish sect, characterized by certain mystical tenets and ascetic practices, and by a cenobitical life. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [noun] > Essene Esseec1380 Essene1553 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Essene Essenicala1641 Essenic1859 Essenizing1875 Essenian1878 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 496 The survivors..were half Christian and Essenian. Eˈssenic adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Essene Essenicala1641 Essenic1859 Essenizing1875 Essenian1878 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Essene Essenicala1641 Essenic1859 Essenizing1875 Essenian1878 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Essenism > [noun] Essenism1852 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Essene Essenicala1641 Essenic1859 Essenizing1875 Essenian1878 1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 118 Ewald..points out..an Essenizing Sibylline poem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553 |
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