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Paˈternian Ch. Hist.
[ad. L. Paterniāni: see Du Cange.]
A member of a Manichæan sect (condemned in a council held at Rome in 367), who held that God made the upper and Satan the lower parts of the body.
c1449Pecock Repr. (Rolls) II. 500 The sect of Paternyanys, which helden that the louȝer parties of a mannys bodi weren maad of the feend. 1659Howell Vocab. Sect. x, Paternians. 1882in Ogilvie (Annandale). |