messiah

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messiah - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ghost dance \Ghost dance\
     A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated
     in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the
     purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the
     dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits
     of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
  
     Ghost-dance, or
  
     Messiah,
  
     religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of
        the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the
        time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead
        with the living, should be reunited to live a life of
        millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The
        religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and
        holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the
        oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher
        powers. The religion spread through a majority of the
        western tribes of the United States, only in the case of
        the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Messiah \Mes*si"ah\, n. [Heb. m[=a]sh[imac]akh anointed, fr.
     m[=a]shakh to anoint. Cf. Messias.]
     The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior;
     Christ.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           And told them the Messiah now was born.  --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

messiah - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  messiah
      n 1: any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ]
      2: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised
         deliverer
      3: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected
         deliverer of the Jewish people
      4: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742

messiah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Messiah
  (Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its
  occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX.
  "Christos." It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15;
  Num. 3:3), prophets (1 Kings 19:16), and kings (1 Sam. 9:16;
  16:3; 2 Sam. 12:7) were anointed with oil, and so consecrated to
  their respective offices. The great Messiah is anointed "above
  his fellows" (Ps. 45:7); i.e., he embraces in himself all the
  three offices. The Greek form "Messias" is only twice used in
  the New Testament, in John 1:41 and 4:25 (R.V., "Messiah"), and
  in the Old Testament the word Messiah, as the rendering of the
  Hebrew, occurs only twice (Dan 9:25, 26; R.V., "the anointed
  one").
  
    The first great promise (Gen. 3:15) contains in it the germ of
  all the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament regarding the
  coming of the Messiah and the great work he was to accomplish on
  earth. The prophecies became more definite and fuller as the
  ages rolled on; the light shone more and more unto the perfect
  day. Different periods of prophetic revelation have been pointed
  out, (1) the patriarchal; (2) the Mosaic; (3) the period of
  David; (4) the period of prophetism, i.e., of those prophets
  whose works form a part of the Old Testament canon. The
  expectations of the Jews were thus kept alive from generation to
  generation, till the "fulness of the times," when Messiah came,
  "made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were
  under the law." In him all these ancient prophecies have their
  fulfilment. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the great
  Deliverer who was to come. (Comp. Matt. 26:54; Mark 9:12; Luke
  18:31; 22:37; John 5:39; Acts 2; 16:31; 26:22, 23.)

messiah - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "Messiah":
     Christ, Christ Jesus, Emmanuel, God the Son, God-man, Immanuel,
     Jesu, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, King of Glory,
     King of Heaven, King of Kings, Lamb of God, Lord Jesus,
     Lord of Lords, Lord our Righteousness, Our Lord, Prince of Peace,
     Redeemer, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man, deliverer, emancipator,
     liberator, rescuer, savior, the Advocate, the Anointed, the Christ,
     the Christ Child, the Door, the Galilean, the Good Shepherd,
     the Infant Jesus, the Intercessor, the Judge, the Lamb, the Life,
     the Master, the Mediator, the Nazarene, the Only-Begotten,
     the Risen, the True Vine, the Truth, the Vine, the Way
  
  

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "messiah":
     Mahdi, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader,
     charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, conductor, coryphaeus,
     duce, file leader, forerunner, fugleman, inspired leader, leader,
     leader of men, pacemaker, pacesetter, precentor, ringleader,
     standard-bearer, symphonic conductor, torchbearer