thiasos

Aeschines himself; and that his mother was priestess of a 'thiasos' or voluntary association of worshippers of Dionysus-Sabazios, among whose ceremonies was doubtless one symbolizing a marriage or mystical union between the god and his worshippers.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

Burschenshaft, since the process of initiation necessarily implies the existence of some kind of thiasos ( 'company,' 'confraternity' or 'troupe') to which the initiate makes application and gains admission in order to share the experience of life-change. "

TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog 2010

Burschenshaft, since the process of initiation necessarily implies the existence of some kind of thiasos ( 'company,' 'confraternity' or 'troupe') to which the initiate makes application and gains admission in order to share the experience of life-change. "

TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Marcus Michelsen <telosscope@telospress.com> 2010

A term commonly applied to such an organization was thiasos, or “confraternity”; the language of brotherhood wasn’t, by itself, an innovation.

One World, Under God 2009

A term commonly applied to such an organization was thiasos, or “confraternity”; the language of brotherhood wasn’t, by itself, an innovation.

One World, Under God 2009

_thiasos_, [2] who was making a pilgrimage to gather information and organize societies.

The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

Tertull. de præscr. 42: plerique nec Ecclesias habent), [Greek: thiasos] (Iren.

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890