Crossword clues for amish
amish
- Buggy-riding religious group
- Bearded buggy brethren
- Bearded brethren in buggies
- Automobile-eschewing sect
- Anabaptist sect
- Wide-brimmed hat wearers
- Weird Al Yankovic's "___ Paradise"
- Wagon drivers
- Traditional Pennsylvania barn raisers
- The Mennonites
- Tech-shunning sect
- Strict community
- Some Plain People
- Shunning community?
- Shoofly pie bakers
- Shoo-fly pie group
- Sect that settled in Pennsylvania
- Sect that raises barns
- Sect similar to Mennonites depicted in the movie "Witness"
- Sect of Mennonites
- Sect known for simple living
- Sect in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County
- Sect in Pa
- Rumspringa practicers
- Rumspringa observers
- Rumspringa group
- Rumspringa followers
- Quiltmaking group
- Quilt makers of Lancaster County, Pa
- Powerless people?
- Pious Pennsylvania people
- People whose best-known technology is buggy?
- People in the 2001 novel "Plain Truth"
- Pennsylvania Mennonites
- Pennsylvania buggy-riding sect
- Pennsylvania Anabaptists
- Pennsylvania "country"
- Peaceful people
- Pacifistic sect
- Ordnung adherents
- Off-the-grid sect
- Noted churners
- Members of a sect
- Many Pennsylvania Dutch speakers
- Low-tech group
- Low-powered group?
- Like the witness in the Harrison Ford movie "Witness"
- Like some rural Pennsylvanians
- Like some Pennsylvania buggy drivers
- Like some buggy riders
- Like many from Lancaster
- Like many Anabaptists
- Like a "Witness" extra
- Lancaster-area sect
- Lancaster-area group
- Lancaster sect
- Lancaster County settlers
- Horse-and-buggy-driving sect
- Horse-and-buggy riders of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Horse-and-buggy Pennsylvania Dutch
- Horse and buggy users
- Hex-sign group
- Group without power?
- Group with a rite of passage called the rumspringa
- Group whose teens go through rumspringa
- Group making sturdy furniture
- Group leading a simple life
- Group in a TLC franchise
- Friendly folk
- Followers of the Ordnung
- Folks featured in Harrison Ford's ''Witness''
- Folks avoiding electricity
- Eschewers of military service
- Eastern U.S. people
- Community with barn raisings
- Community that shuns sinners
- Christian sect known for its aversion to technology
- Buggy-riding people
- Buggy-driving sect
- Buggy drivers
- Buggy bunch
- Barn-raising folk
- Anti-technology sect concentrated in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana
- Anabaptist descendants
- 21st-century buggy drivers
- "Witness" witnesses
- "Witness" folks
- "Witness" folk
- "Plain and Fancy" folk
- "Breaking ___" (TLC reality series)
- "Breaking ___" (reality TV show centered around Mennonites)
- "___ Paradise" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyric "I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat, and my homies agree I really look good in black")
- "___ in the City" (UPN reality series)
- Plain People
- Pennsylvania folks
- Some Mennonites
- Some of the Pennsylvania Dutch
- Old-fashioned sort
- Simple people
- Some Pennsylvania Dutch speakers
- Plain-living sect
- Mennonites
- Simple folk
- Group in Lancaster County, Pa.
- Mennonite group in Pennsylvania
- Modern-day horse-and-buggy travelers
- Plain folk
- Some quilt makers
- Some bearded men
- Like some buggy drivers
- Rejecters of modern technology
- Travelers in horse buggies
- Buggy drivers of Lancaster County
- People without power, often
- Like the witness in "Witness"
- Some buggy drivers
- Drivers of some slow-moving vehicles
- Lancaster County folk
- Like many residents of Lancaster County, Pa.
- Buggy people?
- Pennsylvania Dutch speakers
- ___ country (rustic locale)
- Barn-raising group
- Rural community
- Technology eschewers
- Electricity-eschewing group
- Some drivers with "slow-moving vehicle" reflectors
- Simple-living folk
- Many residents of Holmes County, Ohio
- Many rural Pennsylvanians
- Powerless group?
- An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman
- Mennonite people
- Certain Mennonites
- Some of the Plain People
- Pa. sect
- Mennonite sect members
- Lancaster group
- Ammann's sect
- Lancaster buggy riders
- Some Pa. Mennonites
- Anabaptist group
- Lancaster County group
- Amman's sect
- Religious sect
- Religious group with Swiss roots
- Followers of Jacob Amman
- Lancaster's Valley group
- Followers of Ammann
- Followers of J. Ammann
- Protestant group
- Sect in Pa.
- Group in Lancaster County, Pa
- English novelist with hard, strict sect
- One 24 stuck in jam is helpless
- People avoiding technology roughly before noon?
- Part of Birmingham is home for religious sect
- American sectarians hard on English novelist
- US Mennonite sect
- Pennsylvania sect
- Pennsylvania Dutch group
- Barn-raising sect
- Simple-living sect
- Technology-shunning group
- Rumspringa participants
- Horse-and-buggy group
- Followers of Jakob Ammann
- Buggy riders
- Some Pennsylvania people
- Mennonite offshoot
- Horse-and-buggy sect
- Electricity-shunning sect
- "Witness" sect
- "Witness" group
- Some Lancaster County farmers
- Sect with horse-and-buggy riders
- Primarily powerless people of Pennsylvania
- Plain-living group
- Pennsylvania Dutch
- Old-fashioned folk
- Mennonite subgroup
- Low-tech sect
- Jakob Ammann's followers
- Horse-and-buggy folks
- Electricity-eschewing sect
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amish \Am"ish\, n. sing. & pl. [Written also Omish.] (Eccl. Hist.) The Amish Mennonites.
Amish \Am"ish\, a. [Written also Omish.] (Eccl. Hist.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as ``worldly conformity''. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. A branch having particularly strict adherence to the Amish principles are called Old Order Amish
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, American English, from the name of Jacob Amman, 17c. Swiss Mennonite preacher who founded the sect. Originally spelled Omish, which reflects the pronunciation in Pennsylvania German dialect. As a noun, by 1884.
Wikipedia
The Amish are an Anabaptist Christian denomination formed in 1693 by a schism among some German-speaking Mennonites over the practice of shunning. Today, the term may be applied to:
The Amish (; Pennsylvania Dutch: Amisch, ) are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss Anabaptist origins. They are closely related to, but distinct from, Mennonite churches. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann. Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.
In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites immigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Today, the most traditional descendants of the Amish continue to speak Pennsylvania German, also known as "Pennsylvania Dutch", although a dialect of Swiss German is used by Old Order Amish in the Adams County, Indiana area. As of 2000, over 165,000 Old Order Amish lived in the United States and about 1,500 lived in Canada. A 2008 study suggested their numbers had increased to 227,000, and in 2010 a study suggested their population had grown by 10 percent in the past two years to 249,000, with increasing movement to the West. Most of the Amish continue to have 6–7 children while benefiting from the major decrease in infant and maternal mortality in the 20th century. Between 1992 and 2013, the Amish population increased by 120%, while the US population increased by only 23%.
Amish church membership begins with baptism, usually between the ages of 16 and 25. It is a requirement for marriage within the Amish church. Once a person is baptized with the church, he or she may marry only within the faith. Church districts average between 20 and 40 families, and worship services are held every other Sunday in a member's home. The district is led by a bishop and several ministers and deacons. The rules of the church, the Ordnung, must be observed by every member and cover most aspects of day-to-day living, including prohibitions or limitations on the use of power-line electricity, telephones, and automobiles, as well as regulations on clothing. Most Amish do not buy commercial insurance or participate in Social Security. As present-day Anabaptists, Amish church members practice nonresistance and will not perform any type of military service. The Amish value rural life, manual labor and humility, all under the auspices of living what they interpret to be God's word.
Members who do not conform to these community expectations and who cannot be convinced to repent are excommunicated. In addition to excommunication, members may be shunned, a practice that limits social contacts to shame the wayward member into returning to the church. Almost 90 percent of Amish teenagers choose to be baptized and join the church. During adolescence rumspringa ("running around") in some communities, nonconforming behavior that would result in the shunning of an adult who had made the permanent commitment of baptism, may meet with a degree of forbearance. Amish church groups seek to maintain a degree of separation from the non-Amish world, i.e. American and Canadian society. There is generally a heavy emphasis on church and family relationships. They typically operate their own one-room schools and discontinue formal education after grade eight, at age 13/14. Until the children turn 16, they have vocational training under the tutelage of their parents, community, and the school teacher.
Usage examples of "amish".
At the end of the period, stress the sacred need for all believers in the true religion to seek these Amish out and destroy them.
I hope your contribution is somewhat more efficacious than the farce your commissariat precipitated in regard to the so-called Amish threat.
How were we to know that in actuality the Amish are small in number in Betastan, invariably well-thought-of by their neighbors, not interested in accumulating large amounts of property and having no interest whatsoever in government?
The worst result of our misinformation, of course, was neither in Alphaland or Betastan, but in the two or three neutral nations where there are large Amish elements.
There are many Amish groups, many different ways of dealing with technology.
He got drunk, drove cars, along with the best of them in the Amish gangs.
The bloodlines of most Amish, and those Mennonites descended from them, are so tangled and intertwined that most of us are our own cousins.
The lobby of the PennDutch, along with all its rooms, is decorated with genuine Amish furniture and tools.
Grandma Yoder would have laughed at the concept of a ceramic goose with a bow around its neck, and she would have viewed as absolutely idolatrous the little Amish boy and girl figurines that are so popular in gift shops.
For some strange reason, my Amish cousin and the Hollywood whiz kid had hit it off.
And just because he had married Barbara Zook, a six-foot-tall, sturdy gal from one of the western Amish communities, who had the bad habit of speaking her own mind from time to time.
There I was, dressed in traditional Amish garb, about to play the mother of a mad, pitchfork-pitching Amishman, in the same barn that had been built by my own Amish ancestors-peaceful ones, all of them.
And anyway, the new script, while it called for violence and other behavior uncharacteristic of the Amish, was at least devoid of exploitive sex.
Back in the days when my people were Amish, there had been no light in the barn, but my grandparents had joined the Mennonite church and were allowed electricity.
Today, an expertly crafted, authentic Amish quilt will fetch hundreds of dollars on the tourist market.