单词 | theodosian |
释义 | Theodosianadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to one named Theodosius; esp. of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Theodosius II ( a.d. 408–450). Theodosian code, a collection of laws made by direction of Theodosius II, and published a.d. 438. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [adjective] > ancient or Holy Roman > specific ancient Roman Augustal1597 Tiberian1601 Antonine1631 Neronian1650 Theodosian1765 Augustan1856 Neronic1864 Hadrianic1886 Severan1918 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. iii. 81 Which Theodosian code was the only book of civil law received as authentic in the western part of Europe till many centuries after. 1802 A. Ranken Hist. France II. ii. iii. §2. 251 The Gothic gave way to the Theodosian code. 1837 D. Irving Introd. Study Civil Law (ed. 4) 34 In the novel which sanctions the Theodosian Code, the emperor evidently admits that the compilers whom he had employed were not mere copyists. 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire ii. 17 Revised editions of the Theodosian code were issued by the Visigothic and Burgundian princes. B. n. 1. A follower of Theodosius, a rhetorician of Alexandria, who became ( a.d. 535) the leader of a division of the Monophysites (see Monophysite n.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Monophysitism > [noun] > person > Theodosian Theodosian1788 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 611 (note) The Gaianites and Theodosians. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 797/2 Theodosians..held that the persons of the Trinity are not the same; that none of them exists of himself, and of his own nature; but that there is a common god or deity existing in them all, and that each is God, by a participation of this deity. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects (1886) Theodosians, the Alexandrian section of the sect of the Phthartolatræ. 2. A member of a sect founded by Theodosius, a Russian monk: see quot. 1860. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [noun] > person > Theodosian Theodosian1860 1860 J. Gardner Faiths World Theodosians, a sect of dissenters from the Russo-Greek Church who separated some years since from the Pomoryans, partly because they neglected to purify by prayer..articles..purchased from unbelievers. 1874 in J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.n.1765 |
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