samurai

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Many of the samurai, therefore, will set themselves private regimens that will help their secret religious life, will pray habitually, and read books of devotion, but with these things the Rule of the order will have nothing to do Clearly the God of the samurai is a transcendental and mystical God.

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  1. noun The Japanese feudal military aristocracy.
  2. noun A professional warrior belonging to this class.

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  • He saw uniformed schoolgirls and neo-samurai, monks and punks and businessmen. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • * OT, but that sidebar article with the samurai is waaay cool. —  Ace of Spades HQ
  • More adherent to the role of a traditional samurai is a character like Ame Tomoe, a female samurai in service to the young but wise Lord Noriyuki (a panda!). —  Anime Nano!
  • The AMD version is tentatively called the samurai demo, and features a martial artist in a stone square doing some acrobatics with a spear. —  The Inquirer
  • The samurai were affiliated with senior lords in a well-established chain of command. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Japanese, warrior, from Old Japanese samurafi : sa-, pref. of unknown meaning + morafi, to watch, frequentative of mor-, to guard.

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