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单词 adiaphorist
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adiaphoristn.adj.

Brit. /ˌadɪˈaf(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˌædaɪˈæfərəst/
Forms: 1500s– adiaphorist, 1700s–1800s adiophorist.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin adiaphorista.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin adiaphorista (1550 or earlier) < adiaphorus indifferent (see adiaphorous adj.) + -ista -ist suffix. Compare German Adiaphorist (1550 or earlier), French adiaphoriste (1556 or earlier).
A. n.
1. Church History. Any one of a group of moderate Lutherans led by Phillipp Melanchthon, who advocated certain issues and ceremonies to be considered as adiaphora and not central to the Protestant faith. See Adiaphoristic controversy at adiaphoristic adj.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [noun] > Philippism > person
adiaphorist1560
Melanchthonist1564
adiaphorite1644
Melanchthonian1673
Philippist1728
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xxi. f. cccxxxiijv Melanchton defendeth yt Adiaphorist.
a1564 T. Becon Certain Articles Christian Relig. in Wks. (1844) 401 In the freewill men, in the libertines, in the Adiaphorists.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. i. 8 Not Flacius Illiricus onely, but many others,..opposed themselves to those inconvenient & hurtfull Ceremonies of the Interim, urged by the Adiaphorists.
1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 67 Those who complied [to the Interim of Charles V] were for the most part Lutherans, and carried the Name of Adiaphorists.
1832 T. B. Macaulay Burleigh (1854) 233/1 Those German Protestants who were called Adiaphorists..considered the Popish rites as matters indifferent.
2004 Church Hist. 73 577 Papists, Interimists, and Adiaphorists allowed and even demanded that the Lord's flock gathered in Magdeburg should be led to the butcher's block.
2. A person who holds that differences of religious belief are unimportant; one who allows latitude or flexibility with regard to religious matters; an indifferentist, a latitudinarian.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] > indifference to > person
politic1533
politique1581
adiaphorist1607
politician1643
latitudinarian1662
anythingariana1704
indifferentist1807
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 31 This iustifieth..the Adiaphorist in all his mixtures and meashings with poperie.
1626 J. Fisher Answer Nine Points Controv. (new ed.) ii. 109 Adiaphorists, that hold there is no fundamentall difference betwixt the Protestant, and Roman Church.
1694 J. Beaumont Present State of Universe 92 The people of Siam are generally Adiaphorists; that is to say, all Religions are indifferent to them, because they believe them all good.
1710 W. Hume Sacred Succession 169 There is one Text, which..if it confound not our Adiaphorists, may make them indifferently Modest.
1780 A. Bruce Free Thoughts on Toleration Popery 374 No silly fops, no trifling maccaronis, no men of pleasure; no infidels or adiaphorists, who will be either ignorant or ashamed of the religion of their country.
1832 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 292 Herself being an Adiaphorist—having no scruple about conforming to the Romish Church when conformity was necessary to her own safety.
1911 E. S. Bates Touring in 1600 viii. 362 A man of average morality would be far less of an adiaphorist in the sixteenth century than to-day.
1996 Independent 24 Dec. i. 11/1 Whether you're an atheist or an adiaphorist, an agnostic or an apathetic Christian, Sara Maitland wishes you a guilt-free holiday feast.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or of the nature of an adiaphorist or adiaphorists; that allows latitude in religious matters.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [adjective] > indifferent
adiaphoron1570
adiaphoral1586
adiaphorist1605
adiaphorous1615
adiaphoristic1765
1605 J. Radford Directorie teaching Way to Truth 565 They chaunge religion as oft as Princes, whether the Prince bee Lutheran, Adiaphorist, halfe Catholicke, as King Henry was.
1684 T. Forrester Rectius Instruendum ii. ii. 20 The matters here engadged unto, are important truths and dutys, not disputable points, as he and the rest of his adiaphorist latitudinarian party would make them.
a1790 R. Robinson Eccl. Res. (1792) xv. 618 There was a sect of adiaphorist or neutral Anabaptists.
1882 Spectator 11 Feb. 195/1 Fused, as Catholicism and Protestantism once seemed likely to become fused, while England for a moment became Adiaphorist.
1893 Times 4 Dec. 9/6 Mr. Copeland Bowie, a well-known Unitarian, advocates the unsectarian or adiaphorist conception of Bible teaching.
1973 Church Hist. 42 491 One can easily conclude that Zwingli and his followers stood completely outside the adiaphorist camp.
1993 J. L. Irwin Neither Voice nor Heart Alone i. 15 Beza, who cautioned against the abuse of music's sensual power, nevertheless consistently maintained an adiaphorist position.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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