• (n.) The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translatio...
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Ras·kol'nik (răs*kŏl'nĭk)
noun [ Russian
raskolenik' schismatic, heretic.]
(Eccl.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [ Written also
rascolnik .]
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Ras·kol'nik noun ; plural
Raskolniki or
Raskolniks . [ Russian
raskol'nik dissenter, from
raskol dissent.] The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The
Raskolniki embrace many sects,...
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