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adoptionist Eccl. Hist.|əˈdɒpʃənɪst|
[f. adoption + -ist.]
One of a sect who maintained that Jesus Christ is the son of God by adoption only; commonly known under their Latin appellation of adoptiani. Also used attrib.
1847in Craig. 1853C. Hardwick Hist. of Chr. Ch. iii. 66 The controversy known as the Adoptionist, but in reality a phase of Nestorianism revived. 1874Blunt Dict. of Sects 7 The Gnostics were in a certain sense Adoptionists. |