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Novatian, n. and a.|nəʊˈveɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
Also 5 Nouacian.
[ad. late L. Novātiān-ī (pl.), f. Novātiān-us (see def.).]
A. n. A member of the sect founded by Novatianus, a Roman presbyter in the middle of the third century (see quots.). Chiefly pl.
‘Novatian has sometimes been confounded with his contemporary Novatus, a Carthaginian presbyter, who held similar views’ (Encycl. Brit. XVII. 604/1).
c1449Pecock Repr. v. iii. 499 The sect of Nouacianys, whiche helden that if eny man falle oonys fro the feith, that he schal neuere haue ther of forȝeunes. 1546Hooper Early Writ. (Parker Soc.) 169 One Meletius..said that every sin committed was irremissible, as the Novatians and Catharenes say. 1581Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 75 He socht the iugement of Agelius, albeit he vas ane Nouatian of the contrare faction. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. vi. §49. 368 The Novatians, excepting their peculiar error, of denying reconciliation to those that fell in persecution, held other things in common with Catholiques. 1685Stillingfl. Orig. Brit. iii. 94 If any among the Novatians returned to the Church,..their Ordination seems to be allowed. 1740N. Lardner Credib. Gosp. Hist. ii. xlvii. Wks. 1788 III. 218 The Novatians are said to have condemned second marriages as unlawful and sinful. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. IV. 547 Cyril auspiciously opened his reign by oppressing the Novatians, the most innocent and harmless of the sectaries. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. 109 The Montanists and the Novatians surpassed and stimulated the private penances of the orthodox.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Novatianus or the sect of Novatians.
1630Prynne Lame Giles 12 The Novatian Catherist. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 310 The Novatian error bred such a fear in men of sinning after baptism, that at last multitudes delayed it. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 84 Which was the Foundation of the Novatian Schism. 1740N. Lardner Credib. Gosp. Hist. ii. xlvii. Wks. 1788 III. 223 There is no ground for thinking the African Novatus the first author of the Novatian rigid principle. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 98 [Phrygia] was the foster mother of Novatian rigorism. |