of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion
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of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants
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Nazarene (adj.)
a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
an early name for any Christian
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an inhabitant of Nazareth
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