Parseeism

American  

[par-see-iz-uhm, pahr-see-iz-uhm] / ˈpær siˌɪz əm, pɑrˈsi ɪz əm /

Or Parsiism

noun

1. the religion and customs of the Parsees.

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Etymology

Origin of Parseeism

First recorded in 1835–45; Parsee + -ism

Example Sentences

The leading religions of the East which still survive, such as Buddhism, Brahminism, and Parseeism, have all their astronomy, geography, meteorology, and geology, existing as component parts of their several systems.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

The accounts given to us by the best authorities on Zoroaster and Parseeism scarcely justify us in thinking the religion of the Zendavesta to be Pantheistic in our sense of the term.

From Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern by Picton, J. Allanson

Yet is Parseeism not dead, nor even on the decrease.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

It borrowed liberally on every hand, but chiefly of Parseeism in which faith, as taught by Zoroaster—Aristotle says six thousand years before Plato—may be found its most important features.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

Brahminism and Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity, Mahommedanism and Parseeism, the cult of the Taoists and Confucians, every belief that has been a great belief, that has led man captive, has come from the East.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)