a member of a dualistic sect, flourishing chiefly in Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, that rejected most of the Old Testament and was strongly anticlerical in polity
Also: Bogomile (ˈbɑɡəˌmail)
Derived forms
Bogomilian
adjective
Bogomilism
noun
Word origin
[1840–45; ‹ MGk Bogómilos, from the name of a 10th cent. Bulgarian priest alleged to have founded the sect,in later South Slavic sources Bogomilŭ (a calque of Gk Theóphilos; see theo-, -phile)]