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manichaean::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dualistic |
| Derivation | manichaeism |
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Manichaean script was not the only script used to render Manichaean manuscripts.
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Manichaean script is so named because Manichaean texts attribute its design to Mani himself.
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Manichaean was also her life-long struggle with the very question of how to deal with dualisms.
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Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire.
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Manichaean theology taught a dualistic view of good and evil.
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Manichaean priests, writing at their desks.
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Manichaean temples were established in the two capitals, Chang'an and Luoyang, as well as in several other cities in the Northern and Central China.
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Manichaean script is a sibling of an early form of Pahlavi script, and like Pahlavi is a development from Imperial Aramaic, the official language and script of the Achaemenid court.
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Manichaean friends introduced him to the prefect of the City of Rome, Symmachus, who had been asked to provide a professor of rhetoric for the imperial court at Milan.
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- An adherent of Manichaeism
- Dualistic: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of dualism; "a Manichaean conflict between good and evil"
- (manichaeanism) Manichaeism: 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
- Manichaeism (/u02CCmu00E6nu1D7Bu02C8kiu02D0u026Azu0259m/; in Modern Persian u0622u06CCu06CCu0646 u0645u0627u0646u06CC u0100yin-e Mu0101ni; Chinese: u6469u5C3Cu6559; pinyin: Mu00F3nu00ED Jiu00E0o; Xiao'erjing: u0645u0648u0652u0646u0650 u0643u0650u064Au064Eu0648u0652) was a major religion that was founded by the Iranian prophet Mani (in Persian: u0645u0627u0646u06CC, Syriac: u0721u0710u0722u071D , Latin: Manichaeus or Manes; c. 216u2013276 AD) in the Sasanian Empire.
- (Manichaeanism) A religious-philosophical doctrine that originated in Persia in the third century and reappeared throughout the next 1300 years. It holds that the entire universe, especially human life, is a struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil (light and darkness).
- (Manichaeans) a reference to an ancient Dualist synthetic religion founded by Mani in the fourth century. Aurelius Augustinus, later Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 430) had been a Manichaean but he left when he realised that he was not going to advance in the hierarchy. ...
