Pauliten.1adj.
/ˈpɔːlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɔlˌaɪt/, /ˈpɑlˌaɪt/ A. n.1
1. A follower or supporter of St Paul (with allusion to 1 Corinthians 1:12) or (more generally) of any person with the name Paul. Now rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > St. Paul > adherent of
Paulian1609
Paulite1654
Pauline1717
Paulinist1847
Paulinian1883
1654 J. Crandon Mr. Baxters Aphorisms Exorized & Anthorized ii. 149 All shall be saved (except the Antinomian Paulites, or Protestants) if Mr. Baxters Gospel stand.
1736 J. Hallett Third Vol. Notes on Texts Script. ix. 374 If the people at Corinth..had called themselves..Paulites, Apollosians, Peterites,..they had been heretics or sectaries.
1832 Times 12 Dec. 1/5 Mr. Braidley..was again assailed by the interruptions of the Paulites and the cheers of his friends.
1839 R. Whately Dangers Christian Faith (1857) iii. iv. 74 The Sects of Paulites, and Apollonians and the rest, would have gradually diverged more and more in doctrine.
1894 19th Cent. May 751 If that dear one had lived, he, Simon, would have been a Paulite to the end.
1908 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 345 Controversies between the Jacobites and Paulites (the latter the adherents of Bishop Paul the Black of Antioch, d. probably 585) ensued and passed over into Egypt.
2. A member of the Order of St Paul the First Hermit, an order of monks originating from the union of two Hungarian monasteries in 1250.
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Paulite1884
1884 G. B. Malleson Battle-fields Germany vii. 221 Priests and monks of all denominations, the Benedictines, the Jesuits, the Carmelites, the Paulites.
1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 July v. 19/1 A timber hilltop parish church was transferred in 1382 to the Paulites, a hermetic order from Hungary beholden to St. Paul of Thebes.
B. adj.
Of or belonging to the Paulites (in various senses).
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Paulite1753
1753 T. Herring New Form Common-Prayer Pref. 25 That ye might be..distinguished from others by the Title of Paulites, or Paulite Christians.
1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. ix. 418 He..retired to a Paulite monastery.
1894 19th Cent. May 751 It is not meet that these Paulite women should have their way.
1932 J. B. Morton Sobieski i. 44 The triumphal progress of Charles Gustavus was checked by the stubborn resistance of the Paulite monks of Czenstockowa.
1980 Times 15 Feb. 9/5 The controversy..centered upon..a bumpy strip of road at the foot of the famous Paulite monastery in Czestochowa.
2000 M. E. Fassler in M. E. Fassler & R. A. Baltzer Divine Office in Lat. Middle Ages i. 59 The examples are taken from the Paulite Antiphoner (Zagreb, Cathedral Library).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† pauliten.2
Mineralogy. Obsolete.
= hypersthene n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > inosilicates single chain > [noun] > pyroxene > orthopyroxene > varieties
hypersthene1808
paulite1814
szaboite1883
shattuckite1915
protoenstatite1939
1814 T. Allan Mineral. Nomencl. 24 Hyperstene, Labrador hornblende..Paulite.
1852 C. U. Shepard Treat. Mineral. (ed. 3) 199 Hypersthene (Paulite), in large cleavable individuals, having a cleavage parallel with the sides of an oblique rhombic prism of about 93°.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 688 Professor Heddle contributes analyses of the following British minerals: Halloysite, fibrolite..paulite (hypersthene),..lignite, ozocerite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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