Man|i|che|an

Man|i|che|an
Man|i|che|an or Man|i|chae|an «MAN uh KEE uhn», noun, adjective.
–n.
a member of a Gnostic sect, arising in Persia in the 200's A.D., compounded of Christian, Buddhistic, Zoroastrian, and other beliefs, and maintaining a theological dualism in which the body and matter were identified with darkness and evil, and the soul, striving to liberate itself, was identified with light and goodness.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Manicheans or their doctrines.
[< Late Latin Manichaeus (< Late Greek Manichaîos < Manichaîos of Mani, founder of the sect) + English -an]

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