Catharist

[kath-er-ist]

adjective

1. relating to or following the Cathars or their teachings and practices.

noun

1. a person who adheres to the teachings and practices of the Cathars.

Example Sentences

An understanding so complete with Nature was unknown until Francis stretched out his arms in yearning towards her shrines and drew the people, plunged in the gloom of Catharist doctrines, towards what was a religion in itself—the worship of the beautiful.

From Project Gutenberg

The Manichees, as they gave themselves the most glorious names of Electi, Macarii, Catharist�, mentioned by St. Austin**; so they reproached the Catholics with the most contemptible name of Simplices, 'ideots,' which is the term that Manich�us himself used in his dispute*** with Archelaus, the Mesopotamian bishop, styling the Christian teachers, Simpliciorum magistri, 'guides of the simple;' because they could not relish his execrable doctrine concerning two principles of good and evil.

From Project Gutenberg

Catharist, kath′ar-ist, n. one professing a higher standard of purity in life and doctrine, a puritan: esp. a member of a Manichean heretical sect of the Middle Ages, which spread over the whole of southern and western Europe—confounded with the kindred sect of Paulicians, reaching the greatest numbers in southern France, where, as the Albigenses, they were ruthlessly stamped out by the Inquisition.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

The American woman was justly proud of her virtue, was indeed something of a catharist; and she would not tolerate the smallest departure from the rigid code which she set as the unimpeachable law in these matters.

From Project Gutenberg

On the later history of the Catharist Church see my article "Novatian," l.c.,

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