Renaissance Vocab

1. the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.
4. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
7. a religious ceremony or ritual regarded as imparting divine grace
8. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits
9. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
11. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

1. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century
2. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries
3. a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches
5. a theory that places the sun at the center of the solar system
6. a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church
10. those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture