Definition of Manichaeanism

1. Noun. A religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000.

Exact synonyms: Manichaeism
Generic synonyms: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Derivative terms: Manichaean, Manichaean, Manichean

Definition of Manichaeanism

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of Manichaeism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Manichaeanism

Mangifera
Mangifera indica
Mango
Mangoes
Manhattan Island
Manhattan Project
Manhattan clam chowder
Manhattan clam chowders
Manhattan distance
Manhattanese
Manhattanite
Manhattanites
Manhattans
Manichaean
Manichaeanism
Manichaeans
Manichaeism
Manichaeist
Manichaeists
Manichean
Manicheanism
Manicheans
Manichee
Manichees
Manicheism
Manicheist
Manicheists
Manichæan
Manichæans

Literary usage of Manichaeanism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"... manichaeanism in Kirch, n. 294. An Nadim, Fihrist. (Translation after Kessler, Mani, 1889.) The Fihrist, ie. Catalogue, is a sort of history of ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"602), a fact which undoubtedly, if well established, would go far to indicate an origin from manichaeanism, namely, that this party celebrated the ..."

3. Evenings with the skeptics; or, Free discussion on free thinkers by John Owen (1881)
"nineteenth to his twenty-eighth year Augustine was an earnest and sedulous, if not enthusiastic, disciple of manichaeanism. During this period he changed ..."

4. The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study by Julia Wedgwood (1907)
"Manichaeans were persecuted, but manichaeanism prevailed. Christians would not allow that the Fall was a superhuman event anterior to the Creation, ..."

5. Constantine the Great: The Reorganisation of the Empire and the Triumph of by John Benjamin Firth (1905)
"Moreover, as the edict points out, this manichaeanism came from Persia, ... manichaeanism was a device of the enemy ; it must be poison, therefore, ..."

6. A Church History by Christopher Wordsworth (1887)
"Augustine's resistance to manichaeanism was more effectual on account of his intimate acquaintance with it and its partisans. ..."

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