‖ starover
(starəˈvjɛr)
Pl. starovers, starovery.
[Russ.]
= Old Believer.
| 1861 A. P. Stanley Lectures on Hist. Eastern Church xii. 471 The real force, the permanent interest, of the Rascolniks lies in the eight millions of souls who call themselves Starovers; that is, ‘the Old Believers’. 1957 Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 1287/1 Starovery, another name for the Russian sect of the Old Believers. 1963 N. V. Riasanovsky Hist. Russia xix. 220 The Old Believers or Old Ritualists—starovery or staroobriadtsy—rejected the new sign of the cross, the corrected spelling of the name of Jesus, the tripling instead of the doubling of the ‘Hallelujah’ and other similar emendations. |