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ˌsemi-Peˈlagian, a. and n.
[ad. eccl. L. Sēmipelagiānus: see semi- 8 b and Pelagian a.1]
A. adj. Pertaining to the semi-Pelagians or semi-Pelagianism.
1626Second Parallel A iij b, No better then an halfe-faced groat of the Semipelagian alloy. 1626Pym in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 341 A Semipelagian and a Popish Faction set on foot to the danger of this Church and State, whose Tenets are Liberty of Free-will. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. v. ii. v. §27 They had embraced the Semi-Pelagian doctrine before Cassian. 1807Syd. Smith Lett. Cath. i, [They] enabled every sublapsarian, and supralapsarian, and semi-pelagian clergyman, to build himself a neat brick chapel. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XI. 346/2 Yet to Cassian is generally attributed the honour or disgrace of founding the Semipelagian School.
B. n. An adherent of semi-Pelagianism.
a1600Hooker Wks. (1888) II. 540 If his grace did no otherwise draw our minds than Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians imagined. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 420 Some papists, who are in this point (as they are rightly called) semi-pelagians; they, acknowledging originall corruption, yet doe limit it. 1744Tindal Contin. Rapin III. 511 note, The Semipelagians think, that an assisting Grace is necessary, but that the first turn of the will to God is the effect of a man's own choice. 1885Marcus Dods in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 472/2 A similar scheme was adopted by Cassian of Marseilles (hence Semi-pelagians are often spoken of as Massilians). |