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n. - An adherent of a religion founded by a Persian prophet of the third century. It is a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity

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  • About the year 390, Priscillianus, a Manichee, and a
  • Stephen Runciman has some interesting things to say about the Bogomils of Yugoslavia in his book, “The Medieval Manichee.”
  • Ramus his logic, and Plato his dialectical devilries, to confess himself a Manichee, and, for aught he knew, a turbaned Turk, or
  • Though he refers to Mani, the third-century originator of the Manichee sect, he seems chiefly concerned with the Cathars of his day.
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