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An annual church festival commemorating Christs resurrection and occurring on Sunday the second day after Good Friday It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha pasque pacircque or pask...
Psychopannychism
The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death and does not wake until the resurrection of the body...
Resurgence
The act of rising again resurrection...
Resurrect
To take from the grave to disinter...
Resurrection
A rising again the resumption of vigor...
Sadducee
One of a sect among the ancient Jews who denied the resurrection a future state and the existence of angels...
Easter
Easter [fr. Ostern, Ger., supposed to be derived from the name of the Teutonic goddess Ostera (oster, to rise), celebrated by the ancient Saxons early in the spring], a movable feast of the church, held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection.Easter Day, on which all the other movable feasts and holy days of the Church depend, is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after, the twenty-first day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after, Book of Common Prayer.Easter Monday is made a Bank Holiday by (English) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13....
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