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Semi-Arian en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌsɛ.miˈɛəɹi.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌsɛ.miˈɛɹi.ən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From semi- + Arian.
Meanings
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(historical, not-comparable) Of or relating to the Semi-Arianism movement.
The highways of the East were crowded with Homoousian, and Arian, and Semi-Arian, and Eunomian bishops, who struggled to outstrip each other in the holy race: […].
1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
Semi-Arian en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌsɛ.miˈɛəɹi.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌsɛ.miˈɛɹi.ən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From semi- + Arian.
Meanings
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(historical) A member of the Semi-Arianism movement.
As it frequently happens, that the sounds and characters which approach the nearest to each other accidentally represent the most opposite ideas, the observation would be itself ridiculous, if it were possible to mark any real and sensible distinction between the doctrine of the Semi-Arians, as they were improperly styled, and that of the Catholics themselves.
1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
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