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Bogomil

[ bog-uh-mil ]

noun

  1. a member of a dualistic sect, flourishing chiefly in Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, that rejected most of the Old Testament and was strongly anticlerical in polity.


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Other Word Forms

  • Dzo·i· adjective
  • Dzo·· noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bogomil1

1840–45; < Medieval Greek DzóDz, from the name of a 10th cent. Bulgarian priest alleged to have founded the sect, in later South Slavic sources Dzdzŭ (a calque of Greek ճó󾱱Dz; theo-, -phile )
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Cyril, born Bogomil Kovachev, was among the 11 and his Darzhavna Sigurnost police file showed he provided information of use in repressing dissent from 1976 until the 1989 fall of the Communist regime.

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The Bulgarian police discovered it and forced author Bogomil “Bogo” Shopov to take it down.

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No monuments of this period are left except the Bogomil cemeteries, and the beautiful mosques, which are the most ancient in Bosnia.

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In 1232 Stephen, the successor of Kulin, was dethroned by the native magnates, who chose instead Matthew Ninoslav, a Bogomil.

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Thus the desire for vengeance and the prospect of a brilliant military career impelled the Bogomil magnates to adopt the creed of Islam, which, in its austerity, presented some points of resemblance to their own doctrines.

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