Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a religion founded by Manes in the third century;
a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity;
spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000;
[syn: Manichaeism, Manichaeanism]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Manichaeanism
n 1: a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a
synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and
Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial
elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire
but had largely died out by 1000 [syn: Manichaeism,
Manichaeanism]