Definition that contains missionaries
- mission an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
- xavier Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)
- saint francis xavier Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)
- cargo cult (Melanesia) the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners; some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries)
- missionary position a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples
- missionary post an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
- missionary station an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
- foreign mission an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work