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Mol•o•kan
(mol′ə kän′),USA pronunciation n.
- Religiona member of an ascetic religious sect, founded in Russia in the 18th century by former Doukhobors, opposing sacraments and ritual and stressing the authority of the Bible.
- Russian molokán (now usually molokánin, plural -áne), equivalent. to molok(ó) milk + -an noun, nominal suffix; origin, originally so named because they ate dairy products on fast days, contrary to Orthodox observance