Petrineadj.
/ˈpiːtrʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈpiˌtraɪn/, /ˈpitr(ə)n/ 1. Christian Church. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of St Peter; spec. of or relating to the writings or teachings traditionally ascribed to St Peter, as Petrine gospel, Petrine liturgy, etc. Petrine claims n. claims of the Popes, based on their traditional succession from St Peter.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [adjective] > Peter
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > Roman Catholic > [noun] > of St. Peter
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > claims of
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1727 C. Mather Terror of Lord 28 Opinions, which the Petrine Conflagration, makes a miserable Hay and Stubble of!
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. §32. 332 The Epistle to the Hebrews..seems to stand as the uniting and harmonising juncture of the Pauline and the Petrine preaching.
1853 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity (1858) 252 The ‘Tübingen romance’..that the antagonism between the Petrine and Pauline, the Hebrew and the Hellenic Gospel..continued into the second century.
1860 Christian Remembrancer 39 135 The Ambrosian, like the Mozarabic and Gallican, is a branch of the Ephesine family. All three have been moulded by contact with the Petrine Liturgy.
1865 R. F. Littledale North Side of Altar 5 The early Christian liturgies, inclusive of the Petrine or Roman family.
1879 Princeton Rev. May 580 Undermined the..Petrine authorship of the Second Epistle of Peter.
1930 tr. F. von Hügel Some Notes on Petrine Claims vii. 30 Four contentions which make up the Catholic Petrine claims.
1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church ii. 35 The Orthodox Church acknowledges Peter as the first among the Apostles: it does not forget the celebrated ‘Petrine texts’ in the Gospels (Matthew xvi, 18–19; Luke xxii, 32; John xxi, 15–17).
2000 Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 510/2 From then on the Petrine status predominates, and the pope becomes the ‘Vicar of Peter’.
2. Russian History. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Peter the Great (1672–1725), tsar of Russia.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [adjective] > Russian > specific
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1908 R. N. Bain in Cambr. Mod. Hist. V. xvii. 549 At least half the Senate (though that was a purely Petrine institution).
1927 E. M. Almedingen in Magnificat Mar. 235/2 No really great men of letters lived in Peter's time: Theophanus..and Prince Kantemir..were the two men who left any mark at all in the annals of Petrine literature.
1964 Listener 5 Mar. 392/1 [Alexis] Tolstoy's Peter the Great modifies the Petrine myth in accordance with an up-to-date and almost professional conception of history.
2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) ii. i. 76 In contravention of the Petrine ban, they grew beards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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