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Communion :: Communion (n.) Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints..

Saintism :: Saintism (n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness..

Black-letter :: Black-letter (a.) Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.

Saintish :: Saintish (a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

Eye-saint :: Eye-saint (n.) An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint..

Thaumaturgus :: Thaumaturgus (n.) A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

Helena :: Helena (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint..

Unsaint :: Unsaint (v. t.) To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to.

All Saints :: All Saints () Alt. of All Saints.

Crispin :: Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

Sainted :: Sainted (imp. & p. p.) of Sain.

Socialism :: Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism..

Castor And Pollux :: Castor and Pollux () See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Hierolatry :: Hierolatry (n.) The worship of saints or sacred things.

Bollandists :: Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the Acta Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work..

Stylo- :: Stylite (n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint..

"""fern " :: Fern (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes. [saints]..

Saint-simonian :: Saint-Simonian (n.) 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 which exist..

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