— Bogomilian , adj. — Bogomilism , n.
/bog"euh mil/ , n.
a member of a dualistic sect, flourishing chiefly in Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, that rejected most of the Old Testament and was strongly anticlerical in polity.
Also, Bogomile /bog"euh muyl'/ .
[ 1840-45; Bogómilos, from the name of a 10th cent. Bulgarian priest alleged to have founded the sect, in later South Slavic sources Bogomilu (a calque of Gk Theóphilos; see THEO-, -PHILE) ]