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treasury of merits — or treasury of the church or treasury of the saints Usage: usually capitalized C : the superabundant satisfaction of Christ for men s sins and the excess of merit of the Virgin Mary and the saints forming a store held in Roman Catholic theology… … Useful english dictionary
treasury of merits — Rom. Cath. Ch. the superabundant store of merits and satisfactions, comprising those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Also called treasury of the Church. [1920 25] * * * … Universalium
treasury of the church — see treasury of merits … Useful english dictionary
treasury of the saints — see treasury of merits … Useful english dictionary
Treasury Select Committee — The House of Commons Treasury Committee (often referred to as the Treasury Select Committee ) is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure,… … Wikipedia
Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee — The Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords that refers statutory instruments to the House that it considers interesting or important. This is unlike the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and… … Wikipedia
Indulgences — • A remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Indulgences Indulgences … Catholic encyclopedia
purgatory — /perr geuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, n., pl. purgatories, adj. n. 1. (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that,… … Universalium
sacrament — /sak reuh meuhnt/, n. 1. Eccles. a visible sign of an inward grace, esp. one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and… … Universalium
Zoroastrianism — /zawr oh as tree euh niz euhm, zohr /, n. an Iranian religion, founded c600 B.C. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu,… … Universalium
