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单词 quaternitarian
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Quaternitariann.adj.

Brit. /kwəˌtəːnᵻˈtɛːrɪən/, U.S. /kwɑˌtərnəˈtɛriən/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quaternity n., -arian suffix.
Etymology: < quaternity n. + -arian suffix, after Trinitarian n., Unitarian n.
A. n.
A person who believes that there are four persons in the Christian Godhead. Cf. quaternity n. Obsolete.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Unitarianism > Antitrinitarian sects and groups > [noun] > Tetradite
Tetradite1728
Quaternitarian1829
tetratheite1874
1829 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 72 We should all have been Quaternitarians, and Quaternitarians would have been the orthodox.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vii. 238 The Jansenists..are, without thinking or intending it, Quaternitarians.
1880 F. Hall Doctor Indoctus 52 If he invented a brand-new form of allotheism, and came out a sesquideist, or a quaternitarian.
B. adj.
Of or relating to any conception of the divine as existing in four persons.
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1885 Reformed Q. Rev. Apr. 205 (title of article) The Quaternitarian controversies.
1971 Amer. Hist. Rev. 76 1241/1 The quaternitarian aspects of Maya theology are well illustrated in the discussion of the Itzam Na cult.
1998 J. Dourley in R. K. C. Forman Innate Capacity ix. 134 God seeks a unity of opposites in human consciousness that defied realization within the Godhead. This ultimately is what demands the creation of consciousness and forces Jung from a trinitarian to a quaternitarian paradigm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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