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Valentinian, n. and a.|vælənˈtɪnɪən|
Also 7 -ean.
[See def.]
A. n. A follower of the Egyptian theologian Valentinus (fl. c 150), founder of a Gnostic sect.
c1449Pecock Repr. v. iii. 497 The sect of Valentynyanys, whiche helden that Crist took no thing of Maries bodi. 1565Stapleton tr. Staphylus' Apol. 168 b, The conflictes of Irenee with the Valentinians. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 2 As the olde Heretiques the Valentinians did. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Valentinians, certaine heretikes..who held opinion that our Sauiour receiued not his flesh of the blessed virgin Mary. 1702tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers 15 The Valentinians..learned what they said concerning the Generation of their æones, of Hesiod. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. IV. 540 note, The Valentinians embraced a complex, and almost incoherent, system. 1833A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. v. 216 Sabellians, Valentinians, and a host of obscurer sects, all rose up in the theological arena. 1874W. R. Cassels Supernatural Relig. II. ii. x. 221 The Valentinians differed materially among themselves regarding certain points.
B. adj. Adhering or belonging to the Gnostic sect instituted by the heresiarch Valentinus; taught or disseminated by Valentinus or his followers.
1579Fulke Conf. Sanders 585 Yet came that estimation of the crosse from the Valentinian heretikes. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2) 56, I found that there were Valentinian Anabaptists in those days. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 554 And now he made many converts,..particularly Ambrosius, noted for the Valentinian heresie. 1832W. Palmer Orig. Liturg. I. 149 As a sufficient means of proving the falsehood of the Valentinian doctrines. 1874W. R. Cassels Supernatural Relig. II. ii. x. 214 He calls him the most noted man of the Valentinian school.
Hence Valenˈtinianism, the doctrine or creed of Valentinus and his followers.
1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 331 note, The later Basilideans apparently influenced by Valentinianism superadded to the teaching of their founder. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 768 The word is tainted with Valentinianism. |