Crossword-Solution: SABAISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sabaism | n. | See Sabianism. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SABAISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Star worship | 2 answers |
| star-worship | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EDVIIN
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SABAISM (5)
The ultimate religion of these monarchs seems in fact to have been a syncretism wherein Sabaism, Confucianism, Greco-Macedonian notions, and an inveterate primitive idolatry were mixed together.
Western Asia was a seething-pot, in which were mixed up a score of contradictory creeds, old and new, rational and irrational, Sabaism, Magism, Zoroastrianism, Grecian polytheism, teraphim-worship, Judaism, Chaldae mysticism, Christianity.
What seems sufficiently obvious is all that I care to maintain, namely, that these shepherd-astronomers were of Chaldæan birth and training, and therefore astrologers, though, unlike their Chaldæan kinsmen, they rejected Sabaism or star-worship, and taught the belief in one only Deity.
And from this the further inference is obvious: Arabian and West Semitic “Sabaism,” with its worship of the heavenly bodies, was not indigenous.
The primitive religion of the Greeks and Romans would appear to have consisted in the worship of the heavenly bodies (Sabaism):--the Titans are nearly all personifications of the celestial orbs.