Alogiann.
/əˈləʊdʒɪən/, U.S. /əˈloʊdʒiən/ Church History.
Chiefly in plural. A member or follower of the Alogi (see Alogi n.); an adherent of the doctrines of this movement.
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Alogian1555
1555 J. Ponet Apologie vi. 98 These doings of the Pope agre full and whole with the heretiques called Montanists, Cataphrygians.., Alogians, and suche lyke.
1574 R. Bristow Briefe Treat. Plaine Wayes To Rdr. sig. *iiij In the first hundred yeares after Christ, were these false masters aforesaid... In the second,..the Alogians, the Montanistes, the Angelikes.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 45 And some prove Maximinians..Corintheans, and Alogians.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The alogians made their appearance towards the close of the second century.
1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker Disputation Holy Script. 34 The Alogians..would not acknowledge as God the Logos, whom John declares to be God.
1916 Reform Advocate 8 Apr. 267/2 We find the Alogians reasoning, that if Jesus has been a real man and there is but one God, the humanity..of Jesus alone can be maintained.
2010 J. G. A. Pocock Barbarism & Relig. V. iii. 112 Enyedi was not far from being an Alogian, who denied both the Fourth Gospel and the Word made Flesh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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