bardesanist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A follower of the teachings of Bardaisan; Bardaisanite.
adj
Pertaining to or influenced by Bardaisan; Bardaisanite.
Example Sentences
- "As a matter of fact these chapters coincide pretty closely with the Book of the Laws of Countries extant in Syriac and in part in Greek, written by an early Bardesanist ; and comparison shows that the Recognitions borrowed from the Bardesanist Book , not vice versâ ”"
- "No doubt Bardaisan, or his son Harmonius, or whatever Bardesanist wrote the poem, was familiar with the great caravan route from India to Egypt, and used this knowledge as a substructure, but the whole is allegorical."
- "Singing here, as if in harmonious unison, the voices of the self-discovered Cartesian cogito, the Freudian Narcissus, Lacan's mirrored ego, Satre's ego-in-the-look-of-the-other, and Piaget's egocentric child hymn and irenic other, Bardesanist bards minstreling the master narrative that governs physis, bios, and psyche, cosmos, civilization, and self in unending remugience."
Etymology
Bardaisan + -ist