单词 | ante-nicean |
释义 | > as lemmasante-Nicean ante-Nicean adj. and n. Brit. /ˌantᵻnʌɪˈsiːən/ , U.S. /ˌæn(t)əˌnaɪˈsiən/ (also ante-Nicaean) (a) adj. existing or occurring before the first Council of Nicea ( a.d. 325); (b) n. an ante-Nicaean writer (rare).Cf. ante-Nicene adj. and n.ΚΠ a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Philos. Wks. (1754) III. iv. 36 Bishop Bull has ventured to assert, that the antenicean fathers had agreed on this subject ‘ad unum’. 1896 W. H. S. Aubrey Rise & Growth of Eng. Nation II. 393 Laud..strove to establish..the Anglican communion as a branch of the great Catholic Church..; with a claim of unbroken descent from the Ante-Nicean Councils. 1925 Amer. Hist. Rev. 30 418 The introduction and most of the concluding chapter on the later Anteniceans is by Father J. de Ghellinck. 2006 B. D. Ehrman Stud. in Textual Crit. New Test. viii. 146 The term ‘orthodoxy’ is anachronistic for the ante-Nicean age. < as lemmas |
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