Nazareneadj.n.
/ˌnazəˈriːn/, /ˈnazəriːn/, U.S. /ˈnæzəˌrin/ A. adj.† 3. Designating the front part of a wig made in imitation of conventional representations of the hair of Jesus of Nazareth. Obsolete. rare.
1. Of or belonging to Nazareth. Chiefly with reference to Jesus of Nazareth.Postpositive in early use (and now poetic or historical), perhaps in imitation of Latin or Greek.
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Samaritanc1384
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Galilean1638
Nazarean1717
Hierosolymitan1721
Hierosolymite1863
c1175 Godric's Prayer (Laud) 2 Sainte Marie uirgine, moder Iesu cristes nazarene, onfo scild, help þin Godric.
a1300 Passion our Lord 183 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 42 He to heom seyde, ‘hwam ye seche here?’ Heo hym onswerede, ‘ihesum nazaren.’
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 19622 I hatt iesus nazaren.
?1497 J. Alcock Desponsacio Virginis Xpristo (de Worde) sig. Biii Come mayde Nazarene Crystis spowse to present & receyue for thy rewarde the specyall crowne of glory.
1617 T. Jackson Nazareth & Bethlehem 36 What haue we to doe with thee Iesus Nazarene, I know thee who thou art.
1703 H. Michel Duplex in Carolo-Cidas Querela sig. B That one most Gracious and Glorious Shepherd, the Nazarene Jesus!
1828 J. S. Thompson Monotessaron xvi. 71 He cried with a loud voice: Ah! Jesus Nazarene, what have we to do with thee?
1855 R. Browning Epist. Karshish 100 That he was dead and then restored to life By a Nazarene physician.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad l. 530 The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it [sc. the ‘Fountain of the Virgin’] by the dozen... The Nazarene girls are homely.
1875 A. C. Swinburne Songs of Two Nations 60 She lisps of Mary and Jesus Nazarene.
1994 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. F1/2 Formally called the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazarene,..the order's original name [sc. the Brotherhood of the Blood of Christ] more tellingly describes the emotional and spiritual depth of its religious commitments.
2. Church History.
a. Of, belonging to, or designating the early Christian or Jewish sects known as Nazarenes (see sense B. 3a). Cf. Nazarean adj. 2.
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Nazarene1689
Nazarene1910
Nazarite1997
1689 tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. New Test. 51 These Nazarene Sectaries.
1695 T. Smalbroke Judgm. Fathers conc. Doctr. Trinity 23/1 I could give..divers Instances, of his designed suppressing whatsoever of Antiquity, that favoured the Nazarene and Minean (or as we now speak, the Socinian) Doctrine.
a1724 J. Jones New Method New Test. (1726) I. 387 Having never seen the Nazarene Gospel, for ought he knew, it might be the very same with that of the Ebionites.
1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1768) I. 174 (note) He..alledges that the Ebionites had only made some small additions to the old Nazarene system.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 101/1 They are..by..solemn Nazarene ordination..irrevocably enough consecrated.
1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXXII. 149/2 In 1730..he had decided for what he calls the Nazarene doctrine.
1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 569/2 According to Epiphan[i]us,..an Ebionite sect..was also called Nazarene.
b. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the sect known as the Church of the Nazarene (see sense B. 3c).
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Nazarene1689
Nazarene1910
Nazarite1997
1910 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. VIII. 453/2 As official organs of the church the Nazarene Messenger, Los Angeles, Cal.,..and the Holiness Evangel, Pilot Point, Tex., are recognized.
1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour iv. 33 Many of these sects—the Pentecostal, Holiness, Nazarene churches and others—have increased enormously in proportion to their size during this period [sc. 1926–1953].
1968 War Resistance II. xxiv. 28 Many do leave for USA, Canada or Australia where there are Nazarene Communities.
1990 P. Taylor See how they Run ii. 51 He was a sybarite still at war with his Nazarene roots.
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Kevenhuller1746
Nazarene1788
beautya1889
stingy1965
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Nazarene Foretop, the foretop of a wig made in imitation of Christ's head of hair, as represented by the painters and sculptors.
4. Of or designating the followers of Jesus of Nazareth; Christian, esp. as referred to by Jews and Muslims.
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Nazarene1819
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xv. 305 The proud Christian should then see whether the daughter of God's chosen people dared not to die as bravely as the proudest Nazarene maiden.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. viii. 77 The citizens, who were of..different faiths, Moslem, Nazarene..and Magian, she transformed..into fishes.
1984 Christian Socialist Spring 6/2 It is a matter of debate whether the..‘lay’ followers of Jesus did so in the early days of the Nazarene movement.
5. Art. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the artistic style or principles of the artists known as the Nazarenes (see sense B. 4).
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Nazarene1901
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. II. 141/2 From Italy..Dobson proceeded to Germany, where he stayed several years, and received a deep impression from the religious art of the ‘Nazarene’ school of that time.
1950 Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 380/1 In many respects Wackenroder was a forerunner of the Nazarene school of painters.
1970 T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites i. 20 Wycliffe, with its light, flat tones and dispersed composition, looks very like a Nazarene painting.
1993 Art Newspaper Feb. 24 The finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings.
B. n.
1. A follower of Jesus of Nazareth; a Christian, esp. as referred to by Jews and Muslims.
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Nazaritan1609
Galilean1611
Nasara1792
Xtian1940
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxiv. 5 Auctour of seducioun of the secte of Nazarens.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) lxxxv, 134 Thenne was establysshed that they shold be called crysten men of crist; ffor byfore they were called nazaryens.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Acts xxiv. 5 Calling the Christians Nazarenes in scorn.
1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans iv. 24 I never saw a Nazarene (i.e. a Christian) before.
1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 32 The very name of Nazarene Was wormwood to his Paynim spleen.
1889 T. H. Huxley Sci. & Christian Trad. (1895) 301 On the whole..the Nazarenes were but little troubled for the first twenty years of their existence.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xliv. 438 Tamb' Itam, after arising from amongst the dead, saw the Nazarene running up and down the shore amongst the corpses.
1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down iii. xviii. 216 But a European [taking hashish], a Nazarene? Shocking! Unforgivable!
2. A native or inhabitant of Nazareth.Chiefly used with reference to Jesus of Nazareth; frequently in the Nazarene.
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Samaritanc1000
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abstainer1535
Nazarite1535
Hierosolymitan1538
Hierosolymitea1557
Judaean1596
Galilean1611
Tel Avivian1939
West Banker1957
?c1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (BL Add. 11858) Matt. ii. 23 A Nazaren.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. ii. 23 He shalbe called a Nazarene . View more context for this quotation
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy xxiii The Disciples of the Glorious Nazarene were Christ'ned first in Antioch, for they had their baptisme some yeares before they had their Name.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 781/1 We find no particular place in the prophets in which it is said that the Messiah should be called a Nazarene.
1860 F. W. Faber Bethlehem vii. 358 The rough manners of the Nazarenes soften, when the sunbeam of his smile is on them.
1881 A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of Worker 11 Great folk no whit ashamed now to beseech That Nazarene to come and be their king.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 309 If the Nazarene had found carpentering good for the life..it would be all right too for Isaac McCaslin.
1993 B. Woolland Teaching of Drama in Primary School 61 The initial function of the role is to pass on information that the Nazarenes will have to leave Nazareth for the Roman census.
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a. Church History and Judaism. A member of a sect of Jewish Christians. Occasionally also: a member of a Jewish sect, allied to the Zadokites. Cf. Nazarean n.The Jewish sect is supposed by some recent scholars to have been the precursor both of the early Christians and of the Jewish Christian sect of the same name.There were two main sects of Jewish Christians, both of whom continued to observe the Law and maintain Jewish ritual while believing in Jesus. The Nazarenes believed that Jesus was divine, while the other main sect, the Ebionites, believed in his messianic character but denied his divinity.
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1689 tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. New Test. 51 Epiphanius..observes.., that these ancient Nazarenes..were descended from the Primitive Christians of the same Name.
a1724 J. Jones New Method New Test. (1726) I. 385 The Nazarenes..differ'd only from the Jews, in that they profess'd the Name of Christ [etc.].
1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1768) I. 173 This body of judaizing Christians..was afterwards divided into two sects..distinguished by the names of Nazarenes and Ebionites.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 125/1 The early fathers do not appear to have regarded the Nazarenes as heretics.
1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. I. iii. ii. 103 The doctrine afterwards maintained by Priestley that the Jewish sects, the Nazarenes and Ebionites..were the genuine Christians.
1927 E. O'Neill Lazarus Laughed i. ii. 42 The Nazarenes and the Orthodox separate and slink guiltily apart.
1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate i. xviii. 147 He bound them in the manner of..the accursed Gnostics and Nazarenes.
b. A member of a sect of Christian reformers in Hungary. rare. Now historical.
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Nazarene1886
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 155 No Nazarene may take up a weapon to attack his brother-man, not even in self-defence.
c. A member of the Church of the Nazarene, a Protestant denomination first organized in California in 1895.
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Nazarene1898
1898 P. F. Bresee in T. L. Smith Called unto Holiness (1962) v. 121 It is now somewhat more than two years since..the Nazarenes, putting the old things behind them, went out to follow in the footsteps of Him whose name they bear.
1962 K. S. Latourette Christianity in Revolutionary Age V. i. 14 On the Pacific coast denominations of recent American origin loomed larger..the Four-Square Gospel, the Pentecostals, the Churches of God, and the Nazarenes.
1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. ii. 28 The Nazarenes had rejected tongue speaking, as had many other Holiness sects.
4. Art. A member of the Brotherhood of St Luke, a semi-monastic association of German artists formed in 1809, with the aim of restoring to art the moral and religious purpose of late medieval and early Renaissance painting. Cf. Pre-Raphaelite n. 1. Also in extended use.
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Nazarite1880
Nazarene1889
1889 W. Armstrong & R. E. Graves Bryan's Dict. Painters & Engravers (rev. ed.) II. 460/1 Schadow..went..to Rome, and joined the ‘Nazarenes’.
1928 E. Waugh Rossetti ii. 29 Nazarene, Florentine, and Crusader fused into one shadowy figure, glowing and distorted.
1942 Archit. Rev. 91 29 (caption) There is nothing elegant in this interior except for the reredos by William Dyce, the ‘Nazarene’ amongst English Early-Victorian painters.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xii. 161 The ‘Nazarenes’ of church music were replaced by the ‘Caecilians’.
1965 Listener 9 Sept. 382/2 He..had come under various influences, including that of the Nazarenes,..a group of German artists who had founded a ‘pre’ Pre-Raphaelite movement..in the eighteen-tens.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 61/4 ‘Pious simplicity’, the ideal that the early Romantics such as Wilhelm Wackenroder and the Nazarenes saw embodied in the arts of the early Renaissance.
Derivatives
ˈNazarene-like adj.
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1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xii. 161 Nazarene-like church music.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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