The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manichaean \Man`i*ch[ae]"an\, Manichean \Man`i*che"an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Manich[ae]ans.
Manichaean \Man`i*ch[ae]"an\, Manichean \Man`i*che"an\, Manichee \Man"i*chee\, n. [LL. Manichaeus: cf. F. manich['e]en.] A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.
The Manich[ae]ans stand as representatives of dualism
pushed to its utmost development.
--Tylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Manichean, 1550s (n.), 1630s (adj.), from Latin Manichaeus (see Manichaeism).
Wikipedia
Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and Fars languages.
The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants.
Usage examples of "manichaean".
There is a certain fondness for the Manichaean common to all children.
The Eco-theorists get so enraptured in their Manichaean good-versus-bad spirit that they paradoxically contribute to just those dualistic and destructive forces that at their best they, and all thoughtful men and women, do indeed wish to see superseded.
I announced, supported by facts I felt no need to produce, that we were pitched in a final footrace, not between Manichaean political ideologies but between inventiveness and built-in insanity.
He had entered this Manichaean state: it was either darkness or light, and it seemed that all his gray scale was gone.
There is a certain fondness for the Manichaean, common to all children.
The effect of the Manichaean condemnation of the body is at once to reduce this impossible skyscraper to less than half its original height.
Colonial identity functions first of all through a Manichaean logic of exclusion.
As we saw in the previous sections, the world of modern sovereignty is a Manichaean world, divided by a series of binary oppositions that define Selfand Other, white and black, inside and outside, ruler and ruled.
Cold war ideology gave rise to the most exaggerated forms of Manichaean division, and as a result, some of the central elements we have seen defining modern European sovereignty reappeared in the United States.
Vendee rising, and of its repression, was a product of the Manichaean language of the revolutionary war.
In the Cutler theory, the Jerome Quats of the academic world were born to parents in the middling strata of American society who told them from as far back as they could remember that life was a Manichaean battlei.
Pope Gelasius made a decree on the books received and those not received by the church, and Manichaean books were publicly burnt.
Established Order is no longer anything but a Manichaean compound and therefore inevitable, one which wins on both counts, and is therefore beneficial.
We have said enough about this matter against the calumnies of Faustus the Manichaean.
And Alypius, beginning again to hear me, was involved in the same superstition as I was, loving in the Manichaeans that ostentation of continency 385 which he believed to be true and unfeigned.