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Noun nazarene has 3 senses
- nazarene(n = noun.person) ebionite - a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome; Array is a kind of religious person
- nazarene(n = noun.person) Array - an early name for any Christian; Array is a kind of christian
- nazarene(n = noun.person) Array - an inhabitant of Nazareth; Array is a kind of denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
Adjective nazarene has 2 senses
CIDE DICTIONARY
nazarene, prop. n. [L. Nazarenus, Gr. , fr. Nazareth.].
- A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. [1913 Webster]
- One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nazarene, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a (prec. by the) Christ. b (esp. in Jewish or Muslim use) a Christian.
2 a native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
3 a member of an early Jewish-Christian sect.
--adj. of or concerning Nazareth, the Nazarenes, etc.
--n.
1 a (prec. by the) Christ. b (esp. in Jewish or Muslim use) a Christian.
2 a native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
3 a member of an early Jewish-Christian sect.
--adj. of or concerning Nazareth, the Nazarenes, etc.
Etymology
ME f. LL Nazarenus f. Gk Nazarenos f. Nazaret Nazareth
ROGET THESAURUS
nazarene
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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