Acts of Religion
Nouns
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worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation
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kneeling, genuflection, prostration. prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing
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petition etc. (request) Request
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collect, litany, Lord's prayer
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beadroll
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latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils
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revival
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cult
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anxious meeting, camp meeting
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ebenezer, virginal. thanksgiving
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giving thanks, returning thanks
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grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna
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hallelujah, allelujah
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paean
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Ave Maria, O Salutaris, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion. psalm, psalmody
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hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet
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antiphon, antiphony. oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation
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burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering
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offertory. discipline
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self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial
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fasting. divine service, office, duty
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exercises
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morning prayer
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mass, matins, evensong, vespers
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undernsong, tierce
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holyday etc. (rites) Rite. worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant.
Verbs
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worship, lift up the heart, aspire
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revere etc. Respect
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adore, do service, pay homage
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humble oneself, kneel
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bow the knee, bend the knee
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fall down, fall on one's knees
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prostrate oneself, bow down and worship. pray, invoke, supplicate
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put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions
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beseech etc. (ask) Request
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say one's prayers, tell one's beads. return thanks, give thanks
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say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises
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give benediction, lead the choir, intone
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deacon, deacon off propitiate [U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself
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vow, offer vows, give alms. work out one's salvation
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go to church
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attend service, attend mass
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communicate etc. (rite) Rite.
Adjectives
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worshipping etc. v.
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devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn
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fervid etc. (heartfelt) Feeling.
Int
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hallelujah, allelujah! , hosanna!, glory be to God!, O Lord!, pray God that!, God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid!
Phrases
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making their lives a prayer" [Whittier]
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prayers ardent open heaven" [Young].
Nouns
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idolatry, idolism
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demonism, demonolatry
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idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship
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zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism
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ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry. deification, apotheosis, canonization
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hero worship. sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust
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human sacrifices, immolation, mactation, infanticide, self-immolation, suttee. idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath
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Baal etc. Pseudo-Revelation.
Verbs
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worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics
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deify, canonize.
Nouns
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sorcery
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occult art, occult sciences
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magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy
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demonology, demonomy, demonship
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bedevilment
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witchcraft, witchery
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glamor
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fetishism, fetichism, feticism
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ghost dance, hoodoo
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obi, obiism
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voodoo, voodooism
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Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism
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conjuration
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bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism
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od force, odylic force
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electrobiology, clairvoyance
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spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. divination etc. (prediction) Prediction
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sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae
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hocus-pocus etc. (deception) Deception.
Verbs
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practice sorcery etc. n.
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cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant
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bewitch, bedevil
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hoodoo, voodoo
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entrance, mesmerize, magnetize
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fascinate etc. (influence) Motive
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taboo
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wave a wand
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rub the ring, rub the lamp
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cast a spell
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call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep
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raise spirits from the dead.
Adjectives
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magic, magical
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mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory
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charmed etc. v.
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Circean, odylic, voodoo.
Nouns
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spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum. talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philter
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fetich, fetish
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lamb of God
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furcula, madstone
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mascot, mascotte
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merrythought
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Om, Aum
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scarab, scarabaeus
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sudarium, triskelion, veronica, wishbone
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swastika, fylfot, gammadion. wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin
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wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap.
Nouns
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sorcerer, magician
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thaumaturgist, theurgist
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conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch
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hoodoo, voodoo
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fairy etc. Demon
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lamia, hag. warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage
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cunning man, medicine man
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Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica
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medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller
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mesmerist
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soothsayer etc. Oracle. Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian
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Circe, siren, weird sisters.