单词 | sethite |
释义 | Sethiten.adj. A. n. 1. A descendant of Seth (occasionally transferred a spiritual descendant of Seth). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Old Testament > [noun] MessiahOE Maccabeea1425 Septuagint1564 Japhethite1598 Sethite1659 Noachides1703 Japhetian1803 Maccabeana1831 1659 R. Gell Ess. Amendm. Transl. Bible 102 The Shethites and Shemites were and are taken up wholly or principally with matters of the life to come. 1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (iv. 22–3) 180 The Cainites were..an older race than the Shethites. 1896 Dawson in Expositor Sept. 206 The Sethites were thus sons and daughters of Adam by special right. 2. = Sethian n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Gnosticism > [noun] > person > sethian Sethian1721 Sethinian1723 Sethite1765 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. ii. ii. v. §18 The Sethites..honoured Seth in a particular manner, and looked upon him as the same person with Christ. 1862 Chamb. Encycl. IV. 804/1 To the Syrians may also be reckoned the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethites. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Seth, descended from Seth. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Old Testament > [adjective] Maccabean1609 Abrahamical1683 Abrahamic1699 Sethite1795 Maccabee1851 1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) i. xii. 382 The virtuous Sethite progeny. 1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xii. 255 This intermixture of the Sethite and Cainite races. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1659 |
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