Crossword-Solution: BEGHARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Beghard | n. | Alt. of Beguard |
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| member of a 13th century Christian brotherhood | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with BEGHARD (5)
The soundest opinion, however, would seem to be that both Beghard and Beguine are derived from the old German word _beggan_, signifying either to beg or to pray, while Lollard is traced to _lullen_, to mutter prayers.[394] The motives were numerous which impelled multitudes to desire a religious life without assuming the awful and irrevocable vows that cut them off absolutely from the world.
Walter, known as the Lollard, was a Hollander, and was the most active and successful of the Beghard missionaries.
From Angermünde Friar Jordan seems to have hastened to Erfurt, where he was present at the trial of a Beghard named Constantine, though the proceedings were carried on by the vicar of the Archbishop of Mainz.
There is no proof even that he was concerned in the condemnation of the Beghard heresiarch Berthold von Rohrback, who in 1356 expiated his heresy in the flames.
The following year there was burned at Cologne, by the papal inquisitor, Albert, a leading Beghard known as Martin of Mainz, a former Benedictine monk and a disciple of the celebrated Nicholas of Basle; and in his trial there are allusions to others of the sect executed not long before at Heidelberg.[443] About this period, after a long interval, we again become cognizant of the existence of Waldenses.