Words you might encounter in theological readings, and some rough definitions.
- Concupiscence
- lust/desire
- Profligate
- recklessly wasteful
- Hortatory
- marked by exhortation or strong urging
- Inculcate
- instruct by repetition
- Mimesis
- art imitating literature
- Orthopraxy
- treatment of deformities by mechanical appliances; Orthopraxis: correct practice
- Sapiental
- wisdom teachings
- Etiolated
- having grown in insufficient light; made weak by having stunted growth
- Ostraca
- plural of ostracon (an inscriped potsherd / pottery fragment)
- Redivivus
- come back to life
- Praxis
- practical application of a branch of learning
- Paraenesis
- a warning of impending evil