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Falchion :: Falchion (n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors..

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others..

Gnostic :: Gnostic (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons..

Oriental :: Oriental (n.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.

Marcionite :: Marcionite (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation..

Nyentek :: Nyentek (n.) A carnivorous mannual (Helictis moscatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor..

Vanglo :: Vanglo (n.) Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies..

Orientalize :: Orientalize (v. t.) to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Occident :: Occident (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere..

Orientalism :: Orientalism (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc..

Vizier :: Vizier (n.) A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.

Firman :: Firman (n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance..

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.

Ma :: Ma (n.) In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother..

Theocrasy :: Theocrasy (n.) An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics..

Disorient :: Disorient (v. t.) To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings..

Guenon :: Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet..

Lacwork :: Lacwork (n.) Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind..

Orientalized :: Orientalized (imp. & p. p.) of Orientaliz.

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