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PRONUNCIATION OF MANICHEE

Manichee  [ˈmænɪˌkiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MANICHEE

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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Manichee is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MANICHEE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Manichee

Manichaeism

Manichaeism was a major Gnostic religion that was founded by the Iranian prophet Mani in the Sasanian Persian Empire. Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements. Manichaeism was quickly successful and spread far through the Aramaic-Syriac speaking regions. It thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire. It was briefly the main rival to Christianity in the competition to replace classical paganism. Manichaeism survived longer in the East than in the West, and it appears to have finally faded away after the 14th century in southern China, contemporary to the decline in China of the Church of the East – see Ming Dynasty.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MANICHEE


ake
ˈɑːkiː
apres-ski
ˌæpreɪˈskiː
ASCII
ˈæskiː
Cherokee
ˈtʃɛrəˌkiː
chromakey
ˈkrəʊməˌkiː
croquis
krɒˈkiː
Didache
ˈdɪdəˌkiː
jet-ski
dʒet skiː
key
kiː
latchkey
ˈlætʃˌkiː
marquee
mɑːˈkiː
Milwaukee
mɪlˈwɔːkiː
Nike
ˈnaɪkiː
passkey
ˈpɑːsˌkiː
quay
kiː
ski
skiː
Taranaki
ˌtærəˈnækiː
Torquay
ˌtɔːˈkiː
turnkey
ˈtɜːnˌkiː
Waikiki
ˈwaɪkɪˌkiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MANICHEE

Manichaean
Manichaeism
Manichaeus
Manichean
Manicheism
manicotti
manicure
manicure case
manicure scissors
manicure set
manicured
manicurist
manifest
Manifest Destiny

WORDS THAT END LIKE MANICHEE

chee-chee
chincherinchee
chinkerinchee
Chukchee
coachee
couchee
debauchee
ditrochee
elchee
fourchee
geechee
lichee
lychee
trochee
vouchee

Synonyms and antonyms of Manichee in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Manichee» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MANICHEE

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The translations of Manichee from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Manichee» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Manichee
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maniqueo
570 millions of speakers

English

Manichee
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Manichee
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Manichee
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Manichee
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Manichee
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Manichee
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Manichee
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Manichee
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

manichäischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Manichee
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Manichee
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Manichee
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Manichee
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Manichee
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मॅनिएची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Manichee
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

manicheo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Manichee
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Manichee
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maniheu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Manichee
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Manichee
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Manichee
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Manichee
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Manichee

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MANICHEE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MANICHEE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Manichee

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANICHEE»

Discover the use of Manichee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Manichee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy
A reissue of Sir Steven Runciman's classic account of the Dualist heretic tradition in Christianity from its Gnostic origins, through Armenia, Byzantium, and the Balkans to its final flowering in Italy and Southern France.
Steven Runciman, 1961
2
Augustine's Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of ...
How this happened is the content of Book V. Augustine began this book by saying that during the nine years he was a convinced Manichee he and his friends were "seduced and seducing, deceived and deceiving" in all their activities.104 He ...
Colin Starnes, 1990
3
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
This publicatioin describes the sinful youth of Augustine as well as his conversion to Christianity. Many scholars believe this work to be the first Western autobiography.
Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, 2008
4
Augustine of Hippo: A Life
that the Manichee account was incompatible with the best natural science. He attended disputations in Carthage, where a Catholic layman named Elpidius formulated objections to which the Manichee replies seemed weak. Among Manichee ...
Henry Chadwick, 2009
5
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
153, 2, where the Manichee is presented as 'encouraged' by what Augustine has just said. 1 Op. Imp. V, 26. Honoratus was either the recipient olEp. 140, in which and- Pelagian views are canvassed, or of de utilitate credendi of 392, (and so ...
Peter Robert Lamont Brown, 1969
6
The History of the Life and Death of Jesus Christ
In this disposition he was visited by a Manichee (a neretic that denied God to be the maker of things visible) : he being busy to rob his infection upon the next thing he met, asked the impatient person whom he thought to be the maker of flies ?
Jeremy Taylor, Theodore Alois Buckley, 1851
7
The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in ...
In this disposition he was visited by a Manichee (a heretic, that denied God to be the maker of things visible) : he being busy to rub his infection upon the next thing he met, asked the impatient person whom he thought to be the maker of flies?
Jeremy Taylor, 1849
8
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of ...
In this disposition he was visited by a Manichee (a heretic that denied God to be the maker of things visible) : he being busy to rub his infection upon the next thing he met, asked the impatient person whom he thought to be the maker of flies ?
Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, 1847
9
The Whole Works...
In this disposition he was visited by a Manichee (a heretic that denied God to be the maker of things visible) : he being busy to rub his infection upon the next thing he met, asked the impatient person whom he thought to be the maker of flies ?
Jeremy Taylor, 1864
10
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
Manichee propaganda devoted much attention to onslaughts upon the morality and historical accuracy of the Old Testament and those parts of the New Testament that seemed too Jewish for Manichee taste. Above all, the Manichees urged ...
Henry Chadwick, 2001

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANICHEE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Manichee is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Contra Faustum, I
Faustus' version of Manicheanism was indebted to the earlier work of Adimantus or Adda, who adapted the Manichee system to Western ... «First Things, May 15»
2
The Middle East's vanishing religious variety
Mani, who once counted the future St Augustine as a follower, came close to converting the Parthian emperor in Persia, while a Manichee ... «Financial Times, Dec 14»
3
Barbarism, In A Sentence
Runciman's “The Medieval Manichee” makes the point that the various dualistic heresies tended to consider themselves (and were considered ... «The American Conservative, Jan 14»
4
What Lumen Fidei Means for Catholic Youth
... find," like Augustine the Neoplatonist and Augustine the Manichee, may be, "even without knowing it, on the path leading to faith." (LF, No. «Catholic Online, Jul 13»
5
DUALIST CHRISTIANITY
Stephen Runciman described these movements in a 1947 book significantly entitled The Medieval Manichee, while Dimitri Obolensky ... «Patheos, May 13»
6
Materialism, Manicheanism and the Matrix
Manichee taught that we must rise above the physical and become spiritual. Underlying much of American Catholicism is this same belief–a ... «Patheos, Dec 12»
7
Tim King's interview with Brian Arthur Brown, the author of Three …
Bodhisattva becomes “Bodasaf” in Manichee, and “Josaphat” in later tellings of the tale. However, Wilfred's genius was not in simply pointing to ... «Salem-News.Com, Mar 12»
8
The postwar novelist in regression: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
All this comes from a Persian religious teacher the medievals knew as Mani the Manichee, whose heresy has arisen from time to time in slightly ... «World Socialist Web Site, Nov 09»

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