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Pentecostal

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Pen⋅te⋅cos⋅tal

[pen-ti-kaw-stuhl, -stl, -kos-tuhl, -tl-]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Pentecost.
2. noting or pertaining to any of various Christian groups, usually fundamentalist, that emphasize the activity of the Holy Spirit, stress holiness of living, and express their religious feelings uninhibitedly, as by speaking in tongues.
–noun
3. Also called Pen⋅te⋅cos⋅tal⋅ist. a member of any Pentecostal denomination.

Origin:
1540–50; < LL pentēcostālis. See Pentecost, -al 1
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Pen·te·cos·tal   (pěn'tĭ-kŏs'təl, -kô'stəl)   
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or occurring at Pentecost.

  2. Of, relating to, or being any of various Christian religious congregations whose members seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit, in emulation of the Apostles at Pentecost.

n.  A member of a Pentecostal congregation: "Pentecostals rejected the belief of many fundamentalists that . . . God had ceased to reveal himself to man" (John B. Judis).
Pen'te·cos'tal·ism n., Pen'te·cos'tal·ist adj. & n.
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