单词 | zindiq |
释义 | Zindiqn. Chiefly historical. Chiefly with reference to Persia or the Ottoman Empire: an adherent of any of various sects considered to be heretical; a heretic; an irreligious person. Cf. Zindikite n.In earliest use applied to members of a particular religious sect in Persia and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th cent., possibly designating followers of pre-Islamic religious beliefs (see quots. 1667, 1692). Later, frequently used in the context of Persian or Islamic history, with reference to groups associated (or perceived to be associated) with pre-Islamic religious practices such as Manichaeism, Mazdakism, and Zoroastrianism (cf. Zend n.): see note in the etymology. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun] > person dwalec1175 eritec1175 hereticc1330 bugger1340 erege1340 misbelieverc1438 buggeressc1450 bougeron1532 earwig1541 stray1600 male-fidian1659 Zindiq1667 Zendiciana1833 heresy-monger1872 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Zoroastrianism > Zendicism > [noun] > person Zindiq1667 Zendiciana1833 1667 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire ii. x. 122 You are certainly more cruel to us then the Sezidi, the Kiafirs, the Zindiks, then the Durzians. 1692 tr. G. P. Marana Lett. Turkish Spy V. ix. 43 When I name those Hereticks, I spit on the Ground, in Detestation of their Errors: For they are worse than the Zindicks and Giafers. 1739 J. Campbell Trav. of Edward Brown 361 The common Name for impious Persons is Zendik, which I take it strictly belongs to those who assert the Eternity of the World, and are properly speaking Materialists or Naturalists. 1745 Universal Hist. (Dublin rev. ed.) V. xi. 33 They frequently say that a Mogh is Atesh perest and Zindik, that is a fire worshipper and a Sadducee. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1339/1 The sect of Zendiks opposed the progress of Mohammedanism in Arabia with great obstinacy. 1881 H. S. Jarrett tr. Jalálu’ddín a’s Suyúṭi Hist. Caliphs 278 Al Mahdi..persecuted the Zindíḳs and destroyed a considerable number of them. 1903 tr. B. Lazare Antisemitism 80 Mazdak, the founder of the sect of Zendiks, preached communism. 1948 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 12 183 Among them were fire-worshippers professing the Magian religion, and Zindīqs. 2012 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 71 78/1 Ibn Sa'īd maintains that Qubādh became a Zindīq and followed Mazdak. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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