ditheisticadj.
/ˌdʌɪθiːˈɪstɪk/ Of or pertaining to ditheism.
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 213 The chiefest..Assertors of which Ditheistick Doctrine of..a Good God and an Evil Dæmon, were the Marcionites and the Manicheans.
1890 E. Hatch Infl. Greek Ideas viii. 228 The ditheistic hypothesis was more difficult than the difficulties which it explained.
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ditheˈistical adj.
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a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) IV. 466 I have spoken somewhere of the ditheistical doctrine.
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