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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]