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Shakers [ˈʃeɪkəz]

pl n

(Christian Churches, other) the. an American millenarian sect, founded in 1747 as an offshoot of the Quakers, given to ecstatic shaking, advocating celibacy for its members, and practising common ownership of property

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Shakers - a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States

United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing

religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group

Shaker - a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world

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These people are called Shakers from their peculiar form of adoration, which consists of a dance, performed by the men and women of all ages, who arrange themselves for that purpose in opposite parties: the men first divesting themselves of their hats and coats, which they gravely hang against the wall before they begin; and tying a ribbon round their shirt-sleeves, as though they were going to be bled.

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

Greedily sucking in this intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the white whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm, of Skeneateles, of Northampton: why so impatient to baptize them Essenes, or Port-Royalists, or Shakers, or by any known and effete name?

Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context

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