Manichaeanism

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Manichaeanism
       n : a religion founded by Manes the third century; a synthesis
           of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and
           Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial
           elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman
           Empire but had largely died out by 1000 [syn: {Manichaeism}]