Crossword clues for pentecostal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pentecostal \Pen`te*cos"tal\, a. Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "pertaining to the Pentecost," from Latin pentecostalis (Tertullian), from pentecoste (see pentecost). With a capital P- and meaning "Pentecostalist," in reference to "Christian sect emphasizing gifts of the Holy Spirit" (Acts ii), it is attested from 1904 (noun and adjective).
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members
of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost
Usage examples of "pentecostal".
I called in a couple of my Pentecostal pastor friends and asked what the real problem was.
Mickey Mangun and another Pentecostal friend, Janice Sjostrand, sang at the dedicatory church service at my first inauguration and brought the house down.
A strict Pentecostal upbringing combined with an education at an all-girls school had left her vulnerable.
Since Violet was still wearing one of her dowdy Pentecostal dresses, he suggested that she change into one of her new purchases.
Especially if one has ever witnessed the carrying-on in a white Pentecostal church, or other churches of that particular ilk.
Mickey Mangun and another Pentecostal friend, Janice Sjostrand, sang at the dedicatory church service at my first inauguration and brought the house down.
That a breakaway group of nuns at her American-financed Pentecostal Mission school had preached Quakerish non-violence at her with heavy emphasis on turning the other cheek?
Many of the senators who attacked Ashcroft because he was a Pentecostal Christian were the same bunch who rushed to support Lieberman, an Orthodox Jewish practitioner.
Yea, thou shalt teach The mystery of measured tone, The Pentecostal speech That every listener heareth as his own.
Choices were far more abundant for churches that were Baptist, Advent Christian, Presbyterian, Apostolic, Assembly of God, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Non-Pentecostal, Gospel, Full Gospel, Foursquare Gospel, to name but a few.
The first had been the Calvary Full Gospel, a rowdy Pentecostal assemblage on a gravel road two miles out of town.
The behavior that the Reverend Wayne promulgates through his television shows, pamphlets, and franchises can be traced in an unbroken line back to the Pentecostal cults of early Christianity, and from there back to pagan glossolalia cults.
Bryant, you take a boy who was raised to sing Gospel music at his Pentecostal church, a boy who worshiped his mother, a boy who from all accounts ought to have blended with the Establishment but who instead chose to fight the Establishment.