Appendix:Quakerism
Quakerism began as a Christian reform movement in 17th-century England. Part of Quaker customs were to have their own particular "plain language" for mundane as well as religious phenomena.
“Quaker” and its derivatives
[edit]- Quaker
- Quaker gun: a defunct piece of military weaponry, referencing Quakers' pacifism.
- Quaker ladies: a light blue flower so named for its resemblance to traditional Quaker women's head coverings
- Quakeress: a female Quaker
- Quakerish
- Quakerism
- Quakeristic
- Quakerization
- Quakerize: to convert to Quakerism. Note that the Quaker term for conversion is being “convinced”.
- Quakerizes
- Quakerized
- Quakerizing
- Quakerism
- Quakerly
- Quakers
- Quakery
Time
[edit]Days of the week and names of months were ordered by number rather than use pagan-derived terms:
- First Day (Sunday)
- Second Day (Monday)
- Third Day (Tuesday)
- Fourth Day (Wednesday)
- Fifth Day (Thursday)
- Sixth Day (Friday)
- Seventh Day (Saturday)
- First Day school (Sunday school)
- First Month (January)
- Second Month (February)
- Third Month (March)
- Fourth Month (April)
- Fifth Month (May)
- Sixth Month (June)
- Seventh Month (July)
- Eighth Month (August)
- Ninth Month (September)
- Tenth Month (October)
- Eleventh Month (November)
- Twelfth Month (December)
Religious terms
[edit]- Beaconite: a member of a particular Quaker denomination
- churchhouse
- conventicle: a church
- Friend: a term that Quakers used for one another. The term "Quaker" was originally an insult that the group later adopted as a common name. The proper name for the Quakers as a group is the Religious Society of Friends.
- Gurneyite: a member of a particular Quaker denomination
- Hicksite: a member of a particular Quaker denomination
- meetinghouse: a church
- monthly meeting: a larger organization of individual Quaker meetings
- Nicholite: a member of a particular Quaker denomination
- Wilburite: a member of a particular Quaker denomination
- yearly meeting: the highest organizational body that groups together individual Quaker meetings
Common terms with particular Quaker definitions
[edit]- birth right: for persons born into Quaker families
- clerk
- convinced: rather than "converted"
- elder
- gathered
- meeting
- programmed
- silence
- testimony: Quakers are non-creedal but members are encouraged to explain their understanding of common Quaker values with "Testimonies" of simplicity, peace, integrity (or truth), community, equality, and stewardship
- unity
- unprogrammed
Quakers were also known for their insistence on not using titles or any language that promoted vanity. Consequently, they refused to say you as a second person pronoun and instead used thee and thou as well as thine rather than your. While some of these terms have fallen out of disuse, Quaker terminology is still common amongst Friends and regularly seen in historical literature.