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Nicene, a. (and n.)|ˈnaɪsiːn, naɪˈsiːn|
Also 6 Nycene, Nicæne, Nicen. Cf. Isnik.
[ad late L. Nīcēn-us, Nīcæn-us, f. Nīcēa, Nīcæa, Gr. νίκαια, the name of a town in Bithynia.]
1. a. Nicene Council, one or other of two ecclesiastical Councils held at Nicæa, the first in the year 325 for the purpose of dealing with the Arian controversy, and the second in 787 to consider the question of images.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 105 The legende of whom is had amonge scriptures apocriphate by the decrete of the cownesayle Nicene. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 192 b, In the Crede of Nycene counsyle. 1564Brief Exam. ****j, Certayne sectaries layde to the Fathers charge of Nicæne counsell, that they tooke an order..for keping Easter day. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. ii. rule 6 §35 As we learn from the acts of the second Nicene Council. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Arianism, Many..returned to the faith of the first Nicene council, and anathematized the second. 1860Chambers's Encycl. I. 403/1 The doctrines of A[rius] did not essentially differ from those of the Nicene Council. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 53/1 In opposition to this error, the first Nicene Council defined [etc.].
†b. In the erroneous form Council of Nicene.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 105 He was i-martired under Dacianus þe iuge by doom of the counsaile of Nicene. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 119 Whiche kepede the firste grete cownsayle of Nicene. 1563Homilies ii. Sacrament i. (1859) 445 Whereas, by the advice of the Council of Nicene, we ought to ‘lift up our minds by faith’.
2. Nicene Creed, a formal statement of Christian belief, based upon that adopted at the first Council of Nicæa, which was designed especially to combat the Arian heresy.
1567–9Jewel Def. Apol. Wks. 1848 IV. 315. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (Parker Soc.) I. 12 Excellent learned men who wrote the Creed commonly called the Nicene Creed. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 201 When we read in the Nicene Creed [etc.]. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxvii. III. 17 He..offered that Arian prelate the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly resigning..the cathedral. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 340/2 A confession of faith, which seemed to be in unison with the Nicene Creed. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 254/2 A creed..identical with what we are accustomed to call the Nicene Creed.
3. Connected with, originating from, related to, the Nicene Council(s).
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §2 They always professed love and zeal to the Nicene faith. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Div. 210 The Nicene Fathers explain their meaning, both in the Creed it self, and in the Anathemas annex'd to it. 1781Cowper Hope 394 By Athanasian nonsense, or Nicene. 1801Ranken Hist. France I. ii. ii. 195 The Nicene Christians were therefore most likely to prevail. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 53/1 From which the whole of the Nicene definition follows by logical consequence.
4. n. An adherent of the doctrine sanctioned by the first Nicene Council.
1882Athenæum 9 Sept. 335/2 He has to treat of Arians, Semi-arians, Nicenes, Anomœans, Homœans,..and others.
Hence Niˈcenian, Niˈcenist.
1663Owen Vind. Animadv. Wks. 1851 XIV. 434, I presume you are well pleased with these Nicenians. 1891F. W. Newman Cdl. Newman 53 Unless European Metaphysics or Philosophy could go back to ‘Emanations’, we cannot recover the position of the Nicenists. |