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Nazarene

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Noun

1. ebionite, nazarene

a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome

2. nazarene

an early name for any Christian

3. nazarene

an inhabitant of Nazareth

Adjective

4. nazarene

of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion

5. nazarene

of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nazarene

see synonyms of nazarene
noun
1. 
an early name for a Christian (Acts 24:5) or (when preceded by the) for Jesus Christ
2. 
a member of one of several groups of Jewish-Christians found principally in Syria
3. 
a member of an association of German artists called the Nazarenes or Brotherhood of St Luke, including Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) and Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867), founded (1809) in Vienna to revive German religious art after the examples of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
adjective
4. 
of or relating to Nazareth or the Nazarenes

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Nazarene

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adjective
1. 
of Nazareth or its people or culture
noun
2. 
a person born or living in Nazareth
3. 
a member of an early sect of Christians of Jewish origin who continued to observe much of the Mosaic law
4.  US
a member of the Church of the Nazarene, a Protestant sect
5.  Obsolete
a Christian
term formerly used by Muslims, Jews, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nazarene

see synonyms of nazarene
n.
1.
a. A native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
b. Jesus.
2. A member of a sect of early Christians of Jewish origin who retained many of the prescribed Jewish observances.
3. A member of an American Protestant denomination, the Church of the Nazarene, that follows many of the doctrines of early Methodism.
4. Used traditionally by Muslims to refer to a Christian or Westerner.
adj.
Of or relating to Nazareth or its inhabitants.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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