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- noun historical One of the
separatists ordissenters from the established or Greek church inRussia .
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The word Raskolnik means, literally, one who splits asunder, and that is just what the Old Believer is -- one who has split off from the Orthodox Church.
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The Raskolnik is generally fairly well to do, for, like the Quaker and the Puritan, he finds
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Raskolnik to get beyond the range of official persecutions is shown by many an old "_ukas_," and by many an old entry in the books of far-distant communes.
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Cross has but two beams, while that of the Raskolnik has four, and is made of four woods -- cypress, cedar, palm, and olive; the latter, too, repeats his Allelujah thrice, the Orthodox but twice.
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In 1868 the prospect of a bad harvest, caused by a prolonged drought, induced the inhabitants of a village in the Tarashchansk district to dig up the body of a Raskolnik, or Dissenter, who had died in the preceding December.
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In 1868 the prospect of a bad harvest, caused by a prolonged drought, induced the inhabitants of a village in the Tarashchansk district to dig up the body of a Raskolnik, or Dissenter, who had died in the preceding December.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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In 1863, at the time of the Polish insurrection, the Raskolnik archbishop and his lay advisors sent out an encyclical letter to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The afternoon was closed with a visit to a Raskolnik, or Old Believer, and of all our experiences this turned out to be the most curious.
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We walked out with the old Raskolnik, and at the door I thanked him for his kindness; but even there, and all the way down the long walk through the park, Tolstoi remained silent.
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At this I reminded him of Theodore Parker's distinction between men who believe and men who ` ` believe that they believe, '' and said that possibly our Raskolnik was one of the latter.
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