单词 | ossene |
释义 | Ossenen. Now rare. According to Epiphanius: a member of an ancient heretical sect living to the east of the Dead Sea, who adopted from the Essenes a form of Christianity.Epiphanius differentiated the Ossenes from the Essenes, but there appears to be no other authority for the existence of such a sect. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Essenism > [noun] > person following debased Ossene1860 Ossaean1875 1580 W. Fulke Discov. Daungerous Rocke in Retentiue 314 The olde heresies, in which the Papists consent with ancient heretics..the Ossenes and Marcosianes in their reliques and straunge tounge in prayers. 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 142 In old time the Ossens made their praiers vnto God alwaies in a strange language, which they learned of Elxeus their founder. a1854 J. K. L. Gieseler Text-bk. Church Hist. (1857) 101 The Ossenes were the Essenes east of the Dead Sea. 1860 B. F. Westcott in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 583/1 The strange account which Epiphanius gives of the Osseni..appears to point to some combination of Essene and pseudo-Christian doctrines. 1880 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. II. at Elkesai His accounts of the Jewish Sect which he calls Ossenes (Haer. 19). 1912 S. J. Case Historicity of Jesus 104 Judging from the same writer's skill in splitting the original Essenes up into Jessees, Ossenes, and Ossees, we may wonder whether he [sc. Epiphanius] did not occasionally invent a name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1580 |
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