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Definition of Pentecoster

Pentecoster
Pentecoster Pen`te*cos"ter, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? fifty.] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men. --Mitford.

Meaning of Pentecoster from wikipedia

- Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting...
- experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, an event that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit...
- Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday, also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit, is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian...
- Look up Pentecost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year. It is also one of the...
- List of Pentecostal denominations. Many of these denominations are members of the Pentecostal World Fellowship. In North America, there is also an interdenominational...
- Christian Pentecost or Whitsun, which comes fifty days after Easter. That said, the two festivals are related, as the first Day of Pentecost, related in...
- Pentecostalism, or the Oneness movement) is a nontrinitarian branch of Pentecostal Christianity that emphasizes the absolute oneness of God and the full...
- at later dates, including the Pentecostal Church of Scotland (founded in 1909 by Rev. George Sharpe) and the Pentecostal Mission (founded in 1898 by J...
- Pentecost is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. It lies 190 kilometres (120 mi) due north of capital Port Vila. Pentecost...
- later spread to Texas, Los Angeles, and then to other countries.: 14–15  Pentecostals formed their own churches and organizations, but by the 1960s their emphasis...