Essene
noun
a member of a Palestinian sect, characterized by asceticism, celibacy, and joint holding of property, that flourished from the 2nd century b.c. to the 2nd century a.d.
Essenian
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a word derived from
Essene.
Example Sentences
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We have but a fragment of the Essenian religion,—but one end of their creed,—mere scraps furnished us by Philo, Josephus, and Pliny.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
It was once a favourite theory that both John the Baptist and Jesus were members of the Essenian brotherhood; but that theory is now generally abandoned.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
And finally, after the Essenian Jesus Christ, with some new radical ideas, proclaimed, "Ye have heard it hath been said by them of old time" thus and so, "but I say unto you" differently.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
A similar vein of extravagant religious duty is found in the Essenian, Budhist, and Pythagorean systems.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
The spiritualized conception of the "kingdom of heaven" proclaimed by him was just what would naturally and logically arise from a remodelling of the Messianic theories of the Pharisees in conformity to advanced Essenian notions.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
