Impiety
51Epicureanism — • In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
52Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …
53Spain — • This name properly signifies the whole peninsula which forms the south western extremity of Europe. Since the political separation of Portugal, however, the name has gradually come to be restricted to the largest of the four political divisions …
54Constellation — A cluster of stars, or stars which appear to be near each other in the heavens, and which astronomers have reduced to certain figures (as the Great Bear, the Bull, etc.) for the sake of classification and of memory. In Isa. 13:10, where this… …
55Sophists (The) — The sophists G. B. Kerferd In the fifth century BC the term sophistēs was used in Greece as a name to designate a particular profession, that of certain travelling teachers who went from city to city giving lectures and providing instruction in a …
56evil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Immorality Nouns 1. (something evil) evil, ill, harm, hurt; mischief, nuisance; disadvantage, drawback; disaster, casualty, mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, adversity; abomination,… …
57atheism — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. irreligion, heresy, agnosticism, ungodliness, godlessness, impiety, unbelief, positivism, denial of God, nihilism, iconoclasm, disbelief in God, irreverence, pyrrhonism, rationalism, dogmatic, atheism, skeptical atheism,… …
58profanation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. profanity, impiety, abuse, sacrilege; see blasphemy , heresy , sin . See Synonym Study at sacrilege . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An act of disrespect or impiety toward something regarded as sacred: blasphemy,… …
59δυσσεβείας — δυσσεβείᾱς , δυσσέβεια impiety fem acc pl δυσσεβείᾱς , δυσσέβεια impiety fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …
60δυσσεβίας — δυσσεβίᾱς , δυσσεβία impiety fem acc pl δυσσεβίᾱς , δυσσεβία impiety fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …
