Ephesineadj.
/ˈɛfɪsɪn/ Of or pertaining to Ephesus; chiefly Ecclesiastical with reference to the Third General Council, held there a.d. 431, or to certain liturgical uses supposed to have emanated from Ephesus.
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1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 188 The Epistle of the Ephesine Counsell vnto Nestorius.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 339 The Ephesine temple.
1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church xi. 109 The Ephesine fathers had determined the Cyprian church to be independent of the bishop of Antioch.
1850 C. Wordsworth Theoph. Angl. 166 What is the tenor of the Ephesine Canon?
1883 A. F. Mitchell in P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1236 The Scottish fragment in the Book of Deer, the Irish fragments..of distinctly Ephesine character.
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