单词 | khlist |
释义 | Khlistn. A member of a sect of ascetic Russian Christians, formed in the 17th century, who believed that Christ could be reincarnated in human beings through their suffering. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Khlist > [noun] Khlist1856 1856 R. Farie tr. A. von Haxthausen Russ. Empire I. viii. 254 On Easter night the Skoptzi and Khlisti all assemble for a great solemnity, the worship of the Mother of God. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 250/1 Khlisti, a name signifying ‘Flagellants’ given to a Russian sect..formed about 1645 by a deserter from the army named Daniel Philipitch. 1920 A. Paget tr. A. Nekludoff Diplomatic Reminisc. vii. 71 Rasputin was in fact a Khlyst, i.e. half ‘Shaker’, half Flagellant—a strange sect which from time to time rises in Russia from the common depths to the upper classes of society. 1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 152 None but heretics have preached it [sc. humility]. The Russian Khlyst, for example. 1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 153 Rasputin practised what he preached, and sinned—most conspicuously, as was the custom of the Khlysty, in relation to the seventh commandment. 1967 D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 274 Khlysts, Chlists, or Klysty flagellants, Russian ascetics originating in the seventeenth century. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1856 |
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