Flagellator - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flagellatorFlagellant
One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament called also disciplinant...
Flagellator
One who practices flagellation one who whips or scourges...
Disciplinant
A flagellant See Flagellant...
choanocyte
any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum they maintain a flow of water through the body...
Flagellate
To whip to scourge to flog...
flagellated
resembling a flagellum or flagella...
Flagellation
A beating or flogging a whipping a scourging...
Mastigophora
A phylum of protozoans the kingdom Protista consisting mainly of free living flagellated unicellular organisms lacking photosynthetic capability Some members are pathogenic in man...
VerbarMonas
A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species both free and attached See Illust under Monad...
VerbarRaskolnik
The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church The Raskolniki embrace many sects whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions habits and customs The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books The dissenters who have been continually persecuted are believed to number about 20000000 although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2000000 They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances as follows I ldquoMost obnoxiousrdquo the Judaizers the Molokane who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths the Dukhobortsy or Dukhobors who are communistic marry without ceremony and believe that Christ was human but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men the Khlysty who countenance anthropolatory are ascetics practice continual ...
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