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- Denomination - n. - The act of naming or designating.
- Denomination - n. - That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
- Denomination - n. - A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
- Denominational - a. - Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.
- Denominationalism - n. - A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
- Denominationalist - n. - One imbued with a denominational spirit.
- Denominationally - adv. - In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
- Dunker - n. - One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.
- Crown - n. - A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
- Denominationally - adv. - In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
- Hundredweight - n. - A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.
- Shinplaster - n. - Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
- Shilling - n. - In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
- Unitarian - n. - One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
- Pound - n. - A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
- Denominative - a. - Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
- Mennonite - n. - One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
- Sesterce - n. - A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.
- Campbellite - n. - A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.
- Christian - n. - One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.
- Baptist - n. - One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
- Tael - n. - A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
- Universalist - n. - One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.
- Mina - n. - An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
- Muzarab - n. - One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own.
- Talent - v. t. - Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
- Talent - v. t. - Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
- Seam - n. - A denomination of weight or measure.
- Real - n. - A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
- Reduce - n. - To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
- Denomination - n. - A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
- Sectarian - n. - One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.