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Manichæan, Manichean, a. and n.|mænɪˈkiːən|
Also 6 Manichian.
[f. L. Manichæus (see Manichee) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Manichees or their doctrine; characteristic of a Manichee.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. Pref. §1 If any thing more then ordinary might be said in defence of the Manichean Doctrine. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §154 Favourers of Atheism or the Manichean Heresy. 1784Cowper Task v. 444 As dreadful as the Manichean God. Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. ii. 230 Manichean symbols being introduced on such monuments. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. viii. (1864) V. 385 In another respect the followers of Peter de Brueys rejected the usages of the Church, but in no rigid or ascetic, and therefore no Manichean spirit.
B. n. = Manichee.
1556Clement in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. lxi. 214 Arians Eutichians Manichians..and all other heretikes. 1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xi. 203 The Marcionites and Manichæans of old, who taught, that Christ had no real or substantial body. 1739S. Boyse Deity 98 Could the wild Manichæan own that guide, The good would triumph, and the ill subside! 1793D. Stewart Outl. Mor. Philos. ii. ii. §293 The Manicheans account for the mixture of good and evil in the universe, by the opposite agencies of two co-eternal and independent principles. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. (1877) I. iii. 426 St. Augustine relates that when he was a Manichaean, his mother for a time refused even to sit at the same table with her erring child.
b. transf.
1873Morley Rousseau II. x. 39 Rousseau was never a manichaean towards nature. To him she was all good and bounteous. 1885Times (weekly ed.) 29 May 12/3 As they are not Manicheans, it follows that nothing exists but what is good. |