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Mormon

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Mor⋅mon

[mawr-muhn]
–noun
1. the popular name given to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
2. See under Book of Mormon.

Mor⋅mon⋅ism, noun

Book of Mormon

–noun
a sacred book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believed by members of the church to be an abridgment by a prophet (Mormon) of a record of certain ancient peoples in America, written on golden plates, and discovered and translated (1827–30) by Joseph Smith.
Mor·mon   (môr'mən)   
n.  
  1. An ancient prophet believed to have compiled a sacred history of the Americas, which were translated and published by Joseph Smith as the Book of Mormon in 1830.
  2. A member of the Mormon Church. Also called Latter-day Saint.
adj.  Of or relating to the Mormons, their religion, or the Mormon Church.
Mor'mon·ism n.

Mormon

Mor"mon\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? monster, bugbear.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. (b) The mandrill.

Mormon

Mor"mon\, n. (Eccl.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

Note: The Mormons call their religious organization The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head claims to receive revelations of God's will, and to have certain supernatural powers.

Mormon

Mor"mon\, a. Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.

Mormon

Mor"mon\, n. (Eccl.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States.

Mormon 
1830, coined by religion founder Joseph Smith (1805-1844) in Seneca County, N.Y., in allusion to Mormon, supposed prophet and author of "The Book of Mormon," explained by Smith as meaning more mon, from Eng. more + Egyptian mon "good."
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