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Holystone :: Holystone (v. t.) To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel..

Sanctified :: Sanctified (a.) Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious..

Altar :: Altar (n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table..

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A rank or order of holy beings.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.

Person :: Person (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis..

Lecture :: Lecture (n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture..

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day..

Erastian :: Erastian (n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State..

Disorder :: Disorder (v. t.) To depose from holy orders.

Hadji :: Hadji (n.) A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem.

Sanctiloquent :: Sanctiloquent (a.) Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner..

Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..

Guidon :: Guidon (v. t.) One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land..

Jainism :: "Jainism (n.) The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each..

Passionist :: Passionist (n.) A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross..

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Catholicos :: Catholicos (n.) The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis..

Melancholic :: Melancholic (n.) A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.

Ordination :: Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.

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