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tritheist|ˈtraɪθiːɪst|
[f. tri- + theist; cf. F. trithéiste (Littré).]
A believer in three Gods; esp. one who holds that the three Persons of the Trinity are three distinct Gods.
Chiefly in controversial use; applied spec. to a sect of Monophysites in the sixth century who denied the consubstantiality of the three Persons of the Trinity.
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 323 They which hold not the distinction of three persons onely, but the diuision also of the substance, as the Tritheists. 1715Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 17 Roell is not thought Arian or Socinian in the great point of the Deity of Christ, but rather a Tritheist. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. iv. (1872) 45 There are in almost every congregation..Trinitarians who are practically Tri-theists, worshipping three gods. 1903H. L. Goudge 1 Cor. Introd. 30 S. Paul certainly is no Tritheist; the Son and the Spirit never obscure the Father for a moment.
Hence tritheˈistic, tritheˈistical adjs., of, pertaining to, or believing tritheism.
1698South Serm. III. Ded. A iv b, Reprinting exploded Tritheistick Notions. 1708H. Dodwell Nat. Mort. Hum. Souls 44 Our Adversaries will appear to be the Tritheistical Gobarus's, as to this Particular of the Heresies then condemned in the Tritheists. 1822Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 354 Missionaries..from the tritheistical school of Andover. 1827Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) I. ii. 50 The tritheistic notions of the Trinity. |