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Definition: SWEDENBORGIAN |
SWEDENBORGIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views. Noun1. One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things. |
Date "SWEDENBORGIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker; ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SWEDENBORGIAN |
| English words defined with "SWEDENBORGIAN": New Church, New Jerusalem Church. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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church swedenborgian | 8 |
swedenborgian | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: bringdowns, broadening, gaberdines, grenadines, rawinsonde, reendowing, serenading, wanderings. | |
-4 letters: adenosine, adsorbing, androgens, answering, bedsoniae, beginners, begroaned, besnowing, boardings, breedings, bringdown, desorbing, downrange, drownings, endangers, endbrains, endearing, endorsing, engrained, gaberdine, gesneriad, grandiose, greensand, grenadine, ironweeds, organdies, organised, reasoning, renegados, resending, ringbones, rosinweed, signboard, wandering, wendigoes, wondering, worsening. | |
-5 letters: aborning, abridges, adenines, adorning, aginners, agonised. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 57 45 44 45 4E 42 4F 52 47 49 41 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010111 01000101 01000100 01000101 01001110 01000010 01001111 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S W E D E N B O R G I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0057 0045 0044 0045 004E 0042 004F 0052 0047 0049 0041 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53573938394836495241433548 |
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