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   Zarathustra
         n 1: Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551
               BC) [syn: {Zoroaster}, {Zarathustra}]

English Dictionary: Zarathustra' by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zarathustrian \Zar`a*thus"tri*an\, Zarathustric
   \Zar`a*thus"tric\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian.
      --Tylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zarathustrian \Zar`a*thus"tri*an\, Zarathustric
   \Zar`a*thus"tric\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian.
      --Tylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zarathustrism \Zar`a*thus"trism\, n.
      See {Zoroastrianism}.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Zareth-shahar
      the splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley"
      (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the
      mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead
      Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but
      little remains. "A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of
      wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort
      rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the
      plain, are all that are left" (Tristram's Land of Moab).
     
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