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Mandaism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmændeɪ.ɪzəm/
  • /mænˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mandaismus, equivalent to Manda + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric) An idiom or other feature borrowed from Mandaic.
    • For other similar Mandaisms we may note: […] 1913, James A. Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur, Philadelphia, page 35:
    • As to the Syriac bowls, Montgomery had already referred to Mandaisms in the Syriac texts […] 1990, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, page 372:
    • Montgomery, owing to the limited knowledge of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic in his time, interpreted many of the features simply as Mandaisms. 1999, Studia Orientalia, page 88:

Forms

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mandaism alternative lexicographic

Hypernyms

Aramaism

Mandaism en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmændeɪ.ɪzəm/
  • /mænˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mandaismus, equivalent to Manda + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of Mandaeism (“a monotheistic religion laying emphasis on John the Baptist”).
    alt of Mandaeism
    • He is otherwise inclined to place confidence in Theodor's information as to the person of the founder of Mandaism, […] 1898, H. Hirschfeld, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 908:
    • Mandaism is best understood as fundamentally a Gnostic system, comparable though not identical with various Gnostic systems known to us, which combine elements drawn in varying degrees from Iranian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Christian sources, with Greek philosophy somewhere in the background (in Mandaism very much in the background). 1968, C. H. Dodd, “Mandaism”, in The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Cambridge University Press, page 129:
    • Gnosticism, Manichaism, and Mandaism found numerous adherents; […] 1925, Moses Gaster, The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature, page 87:
    • The former of these hymns is a most curious document, and savours rather of Gnosticism or Mandaism than of genuine Christianity. 1871, William Wright, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, volume 2, page xiv:
    • M. Matter has given the meaning of Manda, the origin of Mandaism in the word Gnosis. 1836, Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis, page 657:

Forms

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Relateds

Mandaic · Mandaite

Synonyms

Mandaeanism