单词 | nicolaite |
释义 | Nicolaiten. historical. Now rare. = Nicolaitan n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Nicolaitanism > [noun] > person Nicolaitec1384 Nicolaitan1526 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. ii. 6 But thou hast this good thing, for thou hatedist the dedes of Nycholaytis. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 497 Also the sect of Nycholaitis, which helden that weddid men myȝten chaunge to gidere her wyues. c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 441/1 Some be Nycolites. 1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 35 The Nicolaits which liue disorderedly haue for their founder, Nicolas one of the seuen..deacons. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 490 The Nicholaites reuiued the same error in the primitiue Church. a1618 J. Sylvester in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) ii. 546 Simon Magus, Nicolaus, author of the Sect of the Nicolaits. 1640 H. Mill Nights Search §38 192 The Nicholaits, they to avoid distrust, Did give their wives in common to the lust Of any man. 1877 Catholic World Jan. 468/1 Wherein does Dr. Nevin differ from the Ebionites, the Nicolaites, the Gnostics, the common Protestants, down to Joe Smith, Père Hyacinthe, and Bishop Reinkins? 1911 Catholic Encycl. XI. 67/1 That the Nicolaites held the antinomian heresy of Corinth, has not been proved. 1985 B. McGinn Christian Spirituality 184 The Gregorians annulled the sacraments of simoniacs and Nicolaites because they regarded such men as in bondage to fleshly concerns. 1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 190/2 First, in a debate with the leader of the Nicolaites, a Christian sect, he astonishes the audience by ‘using the exact tone and inflection’ of his opponent's voice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384 |
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