Pauliciann.adj.
/pɔːˈlɪʃn/, /pɔːˈlɪʃ(ɪ)ən/, U.S. /pɔˈlɪʃ(ə)n/, /pɑˈlɪʃ(ə)n/ Church History.
A. n.
A member of a sect which arose in Armenia in the 5th cent., having affinities with the Paulianists and professing a modified form of Manichaeism.
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1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 357 The Paulicians..said these woordes of Christ, take, eate, this is my bodie, are not to be vnderstanded of his bodie.
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 191 Aduersaries vnto this doctrine be they, Who vtterly condemne..Excommunication, saying how the wicked are not excommunicable, so did the Paulicians.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Paulicians,..so call'd from their Chieftain, one Paulus an Armenian, in the VIIth Century.
1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. 329 The Greeks were engaged..in the most bitter and virulent controversy with the Paulicians, whom they considered as a branch of the Manichean sect.
1811 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Sept. (1973) II. 89 I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord.
1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2407/1 The Bulgarians..finally united with the Eastern Church; and only a small body of Paulicians are now Catholics.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 505/2 Their dualist doctrines,..present numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils, and still more to those of the Paulicians, with whom they are sometimes connected.
1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum lxviii. 388 The Paulicians..are the followers of a certain Paul, joined by some iconoclasts expelled from Albania.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Paulicians or Paulicianism.
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1652 A. Ross Hist. World ii. iv. ii. 134 The Paulician Manichees, fell off totally from the Arabians, and infested the Provinces of the Empire.
1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. ii. v. 429 According to the Paulician doctrine, the evil principle was engendred by darkness and fire.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1887) 575 The Paulician theology..spread rapidly through Provence and Languedoc.
1867 Biblical Repertory July 413 Even more controlling than the influence of Athanasius in the Paulician and Christological debates, was that of Augustine in the anthropological controversies.
1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 624 The Paulician community was a piece of jetsam..deposited..by an archaic ‘Adoptionist’ wave of Christianity.
1998 Armenian Reporter (Nexis) 7 Feb. 1 Though, like the Paulician sect, the Tondrakans had similarities to Christianity, they too despised all forms of worship.
Derivatives
Pauˈlicianism n. the doctrine of the Paulicians.
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1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 385/1 The Manichæan doctrines..continued to have supporters, under their new name of Paulicianism, till a very late period.
1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 414/2 From the close of the eleventh century Paulicianism as such ceases to be significant.
1996 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 40 771 Its [sc. Bogomil heresy's] origins traced back two millenia, to Zoroastrianism..Manichaeism of Late Antiquity, and Paulicianism in the early Byzantine Empire.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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