See also:NEOPHYTE (Gr. veb4vros , from aios, new, 4vT6v, a plant, " newly planted ")
, a word used in the Eleusinian and other mysteries to designate the newly initiated, and in the See also:early See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church applied to newly baptized persons
.
These usually wore the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white garments which they received at their See also:admission to the church (see See also:BAPTISM) for eight days, from See also:Easter See also:eve till the See also:Sunday after Easter (hence called See also:Dominica in albis), but they were subject to strict supervision for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time longer and, on the authority of r Tim. iii
.
6, were generally held ineligible for See also:election as bishops, a See also:rule to which, however, See also:history shows some notable exceptions, as in the cases of St See also:Ambrose at See also:Milan in 374 and See also:Synesius of See also:Cyrene at Ptolemais in 409, who were chosen bishops before they were even baptized
.
By the See also:council of See also:Nicaea (325) this rule was extended to the See also:priest-See also:hood
.
The See also:ancient discipline is still maintained in the See also:Roman Church, and applies to converts from See also:Christian sects as well as to those from heathenism
.
The See also:period, however, is deter-See also:mined by circumstances
.
The See also:term " See also:neophyte " is also some-times applied in the Roman Church to newly ordained priests, and even—though rarely—to novices of a religious See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order
.
In a transferred sense the word is also given to one beginning to learn any new subject
.
See Bergier, Dict. de theologie, &v.; Martigny, Dict. See also:des antiquites, pp
.
433–435; Siegel, Christliche Alterthumer, iii
.
17 seq
.
; Riddle, See also:Christ
.
Antiquities, pp
.
313, 522 ; See also:Walcott, Sacred See also:Archaeology, s.v
.
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