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Definition of Mandaean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language or culture.

2. Noun. A member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah.

3. Noun. The form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans.

Definition of Mandaean

1. Noun. A believer in, or follower of, Mandaeism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandaean

Manchukuo Manchuria Manchurian Manchurian candidate Manchurian candidates Manchurian fever Manchurian haemorrhagic fever Manchurian typhus Manchurians Manchus

Mancona bark Mancs Mancunian Mancunians Manda Mandaean (current term) Mandaeanism Mandaeans Mandaeism Mandaic

Mandalay Mandara Mandarin Mandarin Chinese Mandarin dialect Mandate of Heaven Mandchuria Mande Mandeali Mandean

Literary usage of Mandaean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in a Mosque by Stanley Lane-Poole (1893)
"In that case, Peter- mann's account of the Mandaean creed would be the esoteric, the priestly, view; whilst the basis of M. ..."

2. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: An Historical Study of the Fifth Chapter of Daniel by John Dyneley Prince (1893)
"In Mandaean, as in Syriac, the regular prefix of the third pers. masc. of ... In Mandaean, as in Aramaean, the two prefixes appear to have an equal force ..."

3. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"The truth is, it is a Mandaean form, which proves that the Aram, of Daniel and Ezra is eastern. A further peculiarity is the nun compensative; ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In other respects there is a close resemblance between Mandaean and the language of the Babylonian Talmud. The forms of the imperfect which we have ..."

5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"The close connection of the Mandaean and the Manichaean cosmogony, together with similar views about water in the two parties, would make it highly probable ..."

6. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"The close connection of the Mandaean and the Manichaean cosmogony*, together with similar views about water in the two parties, would make it highly ..."

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