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#977. [Beneficent spirits] Angel.-- N. angel

• archangel

• guardian

• angel

• heavenly host

• host of heaven

• sons of God

• seraph

• seraphim;

• cherub

• cherubim

• ministering spirit

• morning star

• saint

• patron saint

• Madonna

• invisible helpers

• Adj. angelic

• seraphic

• cherubic

• saintly

#978. [Maleficent spirits.] Satan.-- N. Satan

• the Devil

• Lucifer

• Mephistopheles

• Belial

• Samael

• Zamiel

• Beelzebub

• the

• Prince of the Devils

• the tempter[1]

• the evil one

• the evil spirit

• the Adversary

• the

• archenemy

• the author of evil

• the wicked one

• the old Serpent

• the Prince

• of darkness

• the Prince of this world

• the Prince of the power of the air;

• the foul fiend

• the arch fiend

• the devil incarnate

• the common enemy

• the

• angel of the bottomless pit

• fallen angels

• unclean spirits

• devils

• the rulers

• the powers of

• darkness

• inhabitants of Pandemonium

• demon

• diabolism

• satanism

• devil worship

• manicheism

• the cloven foot

• Adj. satanic

• diabolic

• devilish

• infernal

• [1-The slang expressions "the deuce

• dickens

• old Gentleman

• old Nick

• old Scratch

• old Horny

• old Harry

• old Gooseberry," have not been inserted

• in the text.]

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• 2. Mythological and other fabulous Deities and Powers

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#979. Jupiter.-- N. god

• goddess

• heathen gods and goddesses;

• Jupiter

• Jove

• pantheon

• cloud-compeller

• Devi

• Durga

• Kali

• the Great Spirit

• Ushas;

• water nymph

• wood nymph

• Yama

• Varuna

• Zeus

• Vishnu[Hindu deities]

• Siva

• Shiva

• Krishna

• Buddha

• Isis[Egyptian deities]

• Osiris

• Ra

• Belus

• Bel

• Asteroth

• Thor[Norse deities]

• Odin;

• Mumbo Jumbo

• good genius

• tutelary genius

• demiurge

• familiar

• sibyl;

• fairy

• fay

• sylph

• sylphid

• peri

• nymph

• nereid

• dryad

• seamaid

• banshee

• Ormuzd

• Oberon

• Mab

• naiad

• mermaid

• Ondine

• nixie

• sprite

• denizens of the air;

• pixy

• mythology

• heathen-mythology

• fairy-mythology

• Lempriere

• folklore

• Adj. god-like

• fairy-like

• sylph-like

• Phr. "you moonshine revelers and shades of night" [Merry Wives]

#980. Demon.-- N. demon

• daemon

• demonology

• evil

• genius

• fiend

• familiar

• devil

• bad spirit

• unclean spirit;

• incubus

• Eblis

• succubus

• succuba;

• Frankenstein's monster

• Titan

• Shedim

• Mephistopheles

• Moloch

• Belial

• fury

• harpy

• Friar Rush

• vampire

• ghoul

• Loki

• ogre

• ogress;

• gnome

• gin

• jinn

• imp

• bogie

• bogeyman

• flibbertigibbet

• fairy

• brownie

• pixy

• elf

• dwarf

• urchin

• Puck

• Robin Goodfellow

• leprechaun

• troll

• sprite

• bad fairy

• nix

• nixie

• will-o'-the wisp

• [Supernatural appearance] ghost

• revenant

• specter

• apparition

• spirit

• shade

• shadow

• vision

• hobglobin

• goblin

• orc

• wraith

• spook

• banshee

• evil eye

• merman

• mermaid

• siren

• satyr

• faun

• manitou

• manitu

• possession

• demonic possession

• diabolic possession

• insanity

• [in jest

• in science] Maxwell's demon

• [person possessed by a demon] demoniac

• Adj. demonic

• demonical

• impish

• demoniacal

• fiendish

• fiend-like;

• supernatural

• weird

• uncanny

• unearthly

• spectral

• ghostly

• ghost-like;

• elfin

• elfish

• haunted

• possessed

• possessed by a devil

• possessed by a demon

• Adv. demonically

#981. Heaven.-- N. heaven

• kingdom of heaven

• kingdom of God

• heavenly

• kingdom

• throne of God

• presence of God

• inheritance of the saints in

• light

• Paradise

• Eden

• Zion

• abode of the blessed

• celestial bliss

• glory

• [Mythological heaven] Olympus

• Elysium[paradise]

• Elysian fields

• bowers of bliss

• garden of the Hesperides

• third heaven;

• Valhalla

• Walhalla (Scandinavian)

• Nirvana (Buddhist)

• happy hunting

• grounds

• Falak al aflak "the highest heaven"

• (Mohammedan)[Arabic][Arab]

• future state

• eternal home

• eternal reward

• resurrection

• translation

• resuscitation

• apotheosis

• deification

• Adj. heavenly

• celestial

• supernal

• unearthly

• from on high

• paradisiacal

• beatific

• elysian

• Phr. "looks through nature up to the nature's god" [Pope]

• "the great

• world;s altarstairs

• that slope through darkness up to God" [Tennyson];

• "the treasury of everlasting joy" [Henry VI]

#982. Hell. -- N. hell

• bottomless pit

• place of torment

• habitation

• of fallen angels

• Pandemonium

• Domdaniel

• hell fire

• everlasting fire

• everlasting torment

• eternal damnation;

• lake of fire and brimstone

• fire that is never quenched

• worm that never

• dies

• purgatory

• limbo

• gehenna

• abyss

• [Mythological hell] Tartarus

• Hades

• Avernus[Lat]

• Styx

• Stygian

• creek

• Cocytus

• infernal regions

• inferno

• shades

• below

• realms of Pluto

• Pluto

• Erebus[Lat]

• Tophet

• Adj. hellish

• infernal

• stygian

• Phr. dies irae dies illa[Lat]

• "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of

• night" [Love's Labor's Lost]

#983. [Religious Knowledge.] Theology.-- N. theology (natural and

• revealed)

• theosophy

• divinity

• hagiology

• hagiography;

• Caucasian mystery

• monotheism

• religion

• religious persuasion

• religious

• sect

• religious denomination

• creed

• article of faith

• declaration of faith

• profession of faith

• confession of faith

• theologue

• theologian

• scholastic

• divine

• canonist

• the Fathers

• Adj. theological

• religious

• denominational

• sectarian

#983a. Orthodoxy.-- N. orthodoxy

• strictness

• soundness

• religious

• truth

• true faith

• truth

• soundness of doctrine

• Christianity

• Catholicism

• Catholicity

• "the faith

• once delivered to the saints"

• hyperorthodoxy

• iconoclasm

• The Church

• Catholic Church

• Universal Church

• Apostolic Church

• Established Church

• temple of the Holy Ghost

• Church of Christ

• body of

• Christ

• members of Christ

• disciples of Christ

• followers of Christ;

• Christian

• Christian community

• true believer

• canonist

• Christendom

• collective body of Christians

• canons

• thirty nine articles

• Apostles' Creed

• Nicene

• Creed

• Church Catechism

• Adj. orthodox

• sound

• faithful

• catholic

• Christian

• evangelical

• scriptural

• divine

• monotheistic;

• true

• Phr. of the true faith

#984. Heterodoxy. [Sectarianism.]-- N. heterodoxy

• error

• false doctrine

• heresy

• schism

• schismaticalness;

• recusancy

• backsliding

• apostasy

• atheism

• bigotry

• fanaticism

• iconoclasm;

• puritanism

• anthropomorphism

• idolatry

• superstition

• dissent

• sectarianism

• secularism;

• religious sects

• protestantism

• Adventism

• Jansenism

• Calvinism

• methodism

• Puseyism

• ritualism

• Origenism

• Sabellianism

• Deism

• Theism

• materialism

• positivism

• latitudinarianism

• High Church

• Low Church

• Broad Church

• Free Church;

• papism

• papistry

• papacy

• Anglicanism

• Catholicism

• Romanism

• popery

• Scarlet Lady

• Church of Rome

• Greek Church

• paganism

• heathenism

• mythology

• polytheism

• dualism

• Judaism

• Islamism

• Islam

• Mohammedanism

• Sufiism

• Neoplatonism

• Brahminism

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Sabianism

• Gnosticism

• Mormonism

• Christian

• Science

• heretic

• apostate

• pagan

• heathen

• gentile

• pantheist

• polytheist

• idolator

• schismatic

• sectary

• sectarian

• seceder

• separatist

• recusant

• dissenter

• nonconformist

• bigot

• fanatic

• iconoclast

• latitudinarian

• Deist

• Theist

• Unitarian

• positivist

• materialist;

• theosophist

• skeptic

• Protestant

• Huguenot

• orthodox dissenter

• Congregationalist

• Independent

• Episcopalian

• Presbyterian

• Lutheran

• Calvinist

• Methodist

• Wesleyan

• Baptist

• Mormon

• Irvingite

• Sandemanian

• Glassite

• Erastian

• Sublapsarian

• Gentoo

• Bible

• Christian

• Bryanite

• Brownian

• Christian Scientist

• Dunker

• Ebionite

• Eusebian

• Jovinianist

• Quaker

• Shaker

• Stundist

• Tunker

• ultramontane

• Oxford School

• Puseyite

• ritualist

• Puritan

• Catholic

• Roman

• Catholic

• Romanist

• papist. Jew

• Hebrew

• Rabbinist

• Sadducee

• Motazilite;

• Mohammedan

• Mussulman

• Moslem

• Shiah

• Sunni

• Wahabi

• Osmanli

• Parsee

• Sufi

• Buddhist

• Magi

• fire worshiper

• Sabian

• Gnostic

• Rosicrucian

• Adj. heterodox

• heretical

• unorthodox

• unscriptural

• uncanonical;

• apocryphal

• unchristian

• schismatic

• recusant

• iconoclastic

• sectarian

• dissenting

• dissident;

• secular

• (lay) 997

• pagan

• heathen

• heathenish

• ethnic

• ethnical

• gentile

• pantheistic

• polytheistic

• Judaical

• Mohammedan

• Buddhist

• Romish

• Protestant

• bigoted

• (obstinate) 60

• superstitious

• (credulous)

• fanatical

• idolatrous

• visionary

• 515

• Phr. "slave to no sect" [Pope]

• superstitione tollenda religio non

• tollitur [Lat][Cicero]

#985. Judeo-Christian Revelation.-- N. revelation

• inspiration

• afflatus

• Word

• Word of God

• Scripture

• the Scriptures

• the Bible

• Holy Writ

• Holy Scriptures

• inspired writings

• Gospel

• Old Testament

• Septuagint

• Vulgate

• Pentateuch

• Octateuch

• the Law

• the Jewish Law

• the Prophets

• major Prophets

• minor Prophets

• Hagiographa

• Hagiology

• Apocrypha

• New Testament

• Gospels

• Evangelists

• Acts

• Epistles

• Apocalypse

• Revelations

• Talmud

• Mishna

• Masorah

• prophet

• evangelist

• apostle

• disciple

• saint

• the

• Fathers

• Holy Men of old

• inspired penmen

• Adj. scriptural

• biblical

• sacred

• prophetic

• evangelical

• evangelistic

• apostolic

• inspired

• apocalyptic

• ecclesiastical

• canonical

#986. Pseudo-Revelation.-- N. the Koran

• Vedas

• Zendavesta

• Sastra

• Shastra

• Upanishads

• Purana

• Edda

• Book of Mormon

• [Non-Biblical prophets and religious founders] Gautama

• Buddha;

• Zoroaster

• Confucius

• Mohammed

• [Idols] golden calf

• Moloch

• Dagon

• 3. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS

#987. Piety.-- N. piety

• religion

• theism

• faith

• religiousness

• holiness

• sanctimony

• (assumed piety) 98

• reverence

• humility

• veneration

• devotion

• prostration

• grace

• unction

• edification;

• sanctity

• consecration

• spiritual existence

• odor of sanctity

• beauty of holiness

• beatification

• adoption

• regeneration

• conversion

• justification

• sanctification

• salvation

• inspiration

• bread of life

• Body

• and Blood of Christ

• believer

• convert

• theist

• Christian

• devotee

• the

• good

• the righteous

• the just

• the believing

• the elect

• Saint

• Madonna

• Our Lady

• the children of God

• the children of the Kingdom

• the children of the

• light

• V. be pious

• have faith

• believe

• receive Christ;

• revere

• be converted

• convert

• edify

• sanctify

• keep holy

• beatify

• regenerate

• inspire

• consecrate

• enshrine

• Adj. pious

• religious

• devout

• devoted

• reverent

• godly

• heavenly-

• minded

• humble

• pure

• holy

• spiritual

• pietistic

• saintly

• saint-like;

• seraphic

• sacred

• solemn

• believing

• faithful

• Christian

• Catholic

• elected

• adopted

• justified

• sanctified

• regenerated

• inspired

• consecrated

• converted

• unearthly

• not of the earth

• Phr. ne vile fano[It]

• "pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt

• with golden wings" [Milton]

#988. Impiety.-- N. impiety

• sin

• irreverence

• profaneness

• profanity

• profanation

• blasphemy

• desecration

• sacrilege

• scoffing

• [feigned piety] hypocrisy

• pietism

• cant

• pious

• fraud

• lip devotion

• lip service

• lip reverence

• formalism

• austerity

• sanctimony

• sanctimoniousness

• pharisaism

• odium

• theologicum[Lat]

• bigotry

• (prejudice)

• blue laws

• hardening

• backsliding

• declension

• perversion

• reprobation

• sinner

• scoffer

• blasphemer

• sabbath

• breaker

• worldling

• hypocrite

• bigot

• saint [ironically]

• Pharisee

• formalist

• methodist

• puritan

• religionist

• devotee;

• ranter

• fanatic

• the wicked

• the evil

• the unjust

• the reprobate

• sons of men

• sons of

• Belial

• the wicked one

• children of darkness

• V. be impious

• profane

• desecrate

• blaspheme

• revile

• scoff;

• swear

• commit sacrilege

• snuffle

• turn up the whites of the eyes

• idolize

• Adj. impious

• irreligious

• desecrating

• profane

• irreverent

• sacrilegious

• blasphemous

• un-hallowed

• un-sanctified

• un-regenerate

• hardened

• perverted

• reprobate

• hypocritical

• canting

• sanctimonious

• unctuous

• pharisaical

• righteous over

• much

• bigoted

• fanatical

• priest-ridden

• Adv. under the mask of religion

• under the cloak of religion

• under

• the pretense of religion

• under the form of religion

• under the guise of

• religion

• Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio[It]

• godlessness

• ungodliness

• laxity

• quietism

• skepticism

• doubt

• unbelief

• disbelief

• incredulity

• incredulousness

• want of faith

• want of belief

• pyrrhonism

• bout

• agnosticism

• atheism

• deism

• materialism

• positivism

• nihilism

• infidelity

• freethinking

• rationalism;

• neology

• [person who is not religious] atheist

• skeptic

• unbeliever

• deist

• infidel

• pyrrhonist

• heathen

• alien

• gentile

• Nazarene

• espri

• freethinker

• latitudinarian

• rationalist

• materialist

• positivist

• nihilist

• agnostic

• V. be irreligious

• disbelieve

• lack faith

• doubt

• question

• Adj. irreligious

• godless

• graceless

• ungodly

• unholy

• unhallowed;

• atheistic

• without God

• skeptical

• freethinking

• unbelieving

• unconverted

• incredulous

• faithless

• lacking faith

• deistical

• unchristian

• worldly

• mundane

• earthly

• carnal

• worldly

• Adv. irreligiously

• 4. ACTS OF RELIGION