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Mithraicism

Mithraicism is the alternative form of Mithraism.

Meaning of Mithraism

Proper noun

Mithraism

  1. An astrology-based, middle-platonic mystery religion of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire that claimed to have been founded by Zoroaster, admitted only men, and was especially popular among the Roman military.
    • It has left many monuments of itself here in Britain. At Rome the worship was extremely popular, and it may almost be said to have been a matter of chance whether Mithraism should overwhelm Christianity, or whether the younger religion by adopting many of the rites of the older one should establish...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 41

Questions about Mithraicism

What is Mithraicism the alternative form of?
Mithraicism is the alternative form of Mithraism.

Words near Mithraicism in the dictionary

  1. Mithra
  2. Mithraea
  3. Mithraeum
  4. Mithraeums
  5. Mithraic
  6. Mithraicism
  7. Mithraicist
  8. Mithraicists
  9. Mithraism
  10. Mithraist
  11. Mithraistic

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