Definition of "the faithful" []

• The adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed. (adjective)

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• "It was because this doctrine was likely to be a scandal even to the faithful that Augustine wrote his famous work, "De mendacio"."
• "The Council of Orléans in 511 enacted in its fifteenth decree that every kind of contribution or rent offered by the faithful was in accordance with the ancient canons to remain entirely at the disposition of the bishop, though of the gifts actually presented at the altar he was to receive only a third part."
• "He was not a pre-millenarian, one of those who believe that chaos on earth is an indication of the imminence of the Second Coming and that the faithful should therefore do nothing to stand in its way."