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Zoroastrian, a. and n.|zɒrəʊˈæstrɪən|
Also 8 Zoroastran.
[f. L. Zōroastrēs, a. Gr. Ζωροάστρης, ad. Zend Zarathustra (Pers. Zardusht): see -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Zoroaster or his religious system, which is mainly dualistic.
1743Warburton Pope's Ess. Man ii. 81 note, This dangerous school-opinion gives great support to the Manichean or Zoroastran error. 1795T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) II. iv. iii. 249 The..heresy of Manes, which was compounded out of the ancient Zoroastrian or Magian superstition, and certain perverted doctrines of Christianity. 1892Westcott Gospel of Life 172 There appears to be a distinct polemical element in the earliest Zoroastrian Hymns. 1903Times 5 Mar. 3/5 On no previous occasion has any one been received from Christianity into the Zoroastrian faith.
B. n. A follower of Zoroaster; a Parsee.
1811Byron Let. to F. Hodgson 3 Sept., I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichæan, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than any one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord. 1864Pusey Daniel 492 The doctrine of the Resurrection..was not known to the Zoroastrians until after the Christian era. 1886Phil Robinson Vall. Teetotum Trees 3 The semi-sacred character of the holly..among the Zoroastrians and Fire-worshippers.
Hence Zoroˈastrianize v., trans. and intr., to make or become Zoroastrian in character.
1891Cheyne Orig. Psalter viii. 449 Zoroastrianizing phraseology. Ibid. 452 The Judaism carried to Egypt..had..already been in some degree Zoroastrianized. |