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- noun Alternative form of
Sabianism .
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Abraham and handed down through his son Ishmael, and of a very corrupt form of Sabaeanism, which included the worship of the heavenly bodies, as well as of idols, and which had been the religion of Terah and his fellow-countrymen.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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The Chaldaean religion even here is far from being mere Sabaeanism -- the simple worship of the "host of heaven."
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Sabaeanism of earlier ages, the Grecian genius acted to humanize and idealize, but, still, with some regard to the original principle.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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My opera, for which I myself wrote the _libretto_, for a poet would never have fully developed the subject, is the life of Mahomet, -- a figure in whom the magic of Sabaeanism combined with the Oriental poetry of the Hebrew
Gambara Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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