Word Meanings - MARABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

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• SAINTISM
  The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
• MOHAMMEDAN ERA
  The era in use in Mohammedan countries. See Mohammedan year, below.
• MOHAMMEDANIZE; MOHAMMEDIZE
  To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism.
• SAINTOLOGIST
  One who writes the lives of saints.
• SAINTDOM
  The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
• SAINTLINESS
  Quality of being saintly.
• SAINTISH
  Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR
  A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having
• SUPERNATURALLY
  In a supernatural manner.
• MOHAMMEDAN YEAR
  The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332
• MOHAMMEDAN
  Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions
• SAINTHOOD
  1. The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint. Walpole. 2. The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.
• MOHAMMEDANISM; MOHAMMEDISM
  The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.
• SAINT-SIMONISM
  A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work, founded by Saint Simon .
• SAINT-SIMONIANISM
  The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint-Simonism.
• SAINTSHIP
  The character or qualities of a saint.
• SAINT-SIMONIAN
  A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils
• SAINTED
  1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. "A most sainted king." Shak. Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Milton. 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
• SAINTESS
  A female saint. Bp. Fisher.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• UNSAINT
  To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. South.
• UNSAINTLY
  Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
• PROCURESS
  A female procurer, or pander.
• BESAINT
  To make a saint of.