English Explanatory Dictionary

raskol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A criminal in Papua New Guinea, sometimes operating as part of a gang.
name
  1. A mid-17th-century schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to establish uniformity between Greek and Russian church practices.

Word forms

raskol raskols

Etymology

Reborrowed from Tok Pisin, from English rascal.

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