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Definition of Skoptsy

Skoptsy
Skoptsy Skop*tsy", n. pl. See Raskolnik.

Meaning of Skoptsy from wikipedia

- The Skoptsy (Russian: скопцы, IPA: [skɐpˈtsɨ]; sg. скопец "eunuch") were a sectarian cult within the larger Spiritual Christianity movement in the Russian...
- castrated. Emasculation was one form of genital mutilation practiced by the Skoptsy, a Russian Christian sect. For males, the other form of mutilation available...
- In Russia, men of a devout group of Spiritual Christians known as the Skoptsy were castrated, either undergoing "greater castration", which entailed...
- Doukhobors, Maksimisty, Molokans, Subbotniks, Pryguny (Jumpers), Khlysts, Skoptsy, Ikonobortsy (Icon-fighters, "Iconoclasts") and Zhidovstvuyushchiye (Жидовствующие:...
- the Firstborn." The Christian Skoptsy sect in Russia believed that the Messiah would come when there were 144,000 Skoptsy believers, based on their reading...
- significant influence on other Russian sectarian movements, such as the Skoptsy, Dukhobors and Molokans. Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin was ****ociated...
- Thomas Christians in India) Spiritual Christianity Doukhobor Khlyst Molokan Skoptsy Western Christianity Proto-Protestantism Brethren of the Free Spirit (Historical)...
- generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth). Skoptsy, a branch of the Russian Spiritual Christianity movement founded in the...
- addition, Kondratii Selivanov, who led a castrating sect known as the Skoptsy, claimed to be both Jesus and Peter III.[citation needed] In December 1796...
- a chapter (30) that takes place in Pripyat where a fictional group of Skoptsy heretics were holding two important people they had kidnapped. Martin Cruz...