arian

UK /ˈɛəɹi.ən/ US /ˈɛəɹi.ən/
noun 6adj 3

Definitions

noun

1

A supporter of the Cyrenaic monk Arius and his faction in the 4th-century Church.

The Arians celebrated the virtue of their pious confessor; the Catholics ambitiously claimed his alliance; and the Pagans, who might be susceptible of shame or remorse, were deterred from the repetition of such unavailing cruelty.

2

A believer of Arianism, particularly (historical) the official Arian churches lasting to the 7th century.

3

Synonym of unitarian, any Christian who denies the Trinity.

4

Synonym of heretic, any Christian differing from any of the beliefs of the speaker.

adj

1

Of or pertaining to Arius or Arianism.

The highways of the East were crowded with Homoousian, and Arian, and Semi-Arian, and Eunomian bishops, who struggled to outstrip each other in the holy race: […].

He flirts with the Arian heresy, which doubted Jesus’s full divinity, and he embraces Quaker-style religious pacifism, arguing that just-war theory is out of date in an age of nuclear arms and total war.

noun

1

Synonym of Aries, a person born under the influence of Aries.

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