Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Zoroaster Sixth century B.C. Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology, a genus of starfishes, giving name to the Zoroasteridæ, and containing such species as Z. fulgens, of the North Atlantic.
Wiktionary
- n. The prophet of the ancient Iranian religion Zoroastrianism
- n. Pseudepigraphic name used by various Greek and Latin authors of late antiquity to lend their opinions weight
- n. Ostensible source/founder of Mithraism, the "mysteries" of the Roman Mysteriae Mithrae ("Mysteries of Mithras", "Mithraic Mysteries"), an astrology-centric, middle-platonic mystery cult of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire whose adherents worshiped in "caves" (i.e. Mithraea) in imitation of "Zoroaster". (Porphyry, De Antro Nympharum 6)
WordNet 3.0
- n. Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Ζωροάστρης (Zōroastrēs), from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬋 (Zaraθuštrō). (Wiktionary)
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“The purport of the term Zoroaster is said, by [992] the author of the”
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
“The coincidences of the conquest the date, the foreign sovereignty and the name Zoroaster, tend to identify the Median dynasty of Berosus with a period of Susianian supremacy, which the monuments show to have been established it Chaldaea at a date not long subsequent to the reigns of”
“Art not thou he who is called Zoroaster?" he asked.”
“The author of this remarkable revolution in Aryan thought is generally known as Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, as the name is more correctly written.”
“In the larger forms he has done a concert overture, "Zoroaster”
“In 'Zoroaster' Mr. Crawford's winged fancy ventures a daring flight ....”
“The Zend-Avesta represents in its language, as well as in its thoughts, a branching off from that more primitive stem; a more or less conscious opposition to the worship of the gods of nature, as adored in the Veda, and a striving after a more spiritual, supreme, moral deity, such as Zoroaster proclaimed under the name of Ahura mazda, or Ormuzd.”
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“Zoroaster," said the patrico to the upright man, "do thy part of this ceremonial.”
“Zarathustra (or "Zoroaster" in Greek) is not exactly a household name these days.”
“Besides those mentioned his principal works of fiction are the following: "Zoroaster" (1885); "A Tale of a Lonely”
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