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- noun Plural form of
vartabed .
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Examples
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Besides the patriarch and bishops about a hundred vartabeds live here.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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In the three or four monasteries surrounding the plain, there are said to be fifty vartabeds -- men of more or less education.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Rufus Anderson 1838
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As two or three vartabeds and some of the priests continued to attend the preaching of the missionaries, and others were known to be friendly, something must be done to operate upon those spiritual guides of the people.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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It was a favorable sign, that bishops and vartabeds began now to give instructions from the sacred Scriptures, instead of the legends of the saints.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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Indeed, one of the most respectable vartabeds in Constantinople made repeated applications to the missionaries to furnish mutter for his sermons.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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This the vartabeds, or preachers, could not disregard.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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The bishops carry a staff shaped like the Latin, while the vartabeds (deans, or doctors of divinity; analogous to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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