Definitions for Cathars

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Cathars Cath·ar

Spelling: [kath-ahr]

IPA: /ˈkæθ ɑr/

Cathars is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in Cathars (aachrst).

Definitions for Cathars

noun

1. (in medieval Europe) a member of any of several rigorously ascetic Christian sects maintaining a dualistic theology.

Origin of Cathars

1630-40; Late Latin Catharī (plural) Late Greek hoi Katharoí Novatians, literally, the pure; applied in ML to various sects

Examples for Cathars

Here seems to belong in the order of development the Cathar Eucharist (see Cathars).

Cathar′sis, evacuation of the bowels; Cathart′ic, a purgative medicine; Cathar′tin, the purgative principle of senna.