Nestorian

American  

[ne-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / nɛˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /

noun

1. one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.

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Other Word Forms

• Nestorianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Nestorian

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word Nestoriānus. See Nestorius, -an

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For example, Nestorian Christianity emerged in the fifth century in the debates about Christ’s divinity, claiming that Jesus existed as two individuals—human and divine.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Nestorian Christians had come primarily from Syria and Persia.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

We climbed a promontory that descended past a fallow plot of farmland and ended at Mar Odisho, a Nestorian monastery with stones that looked like fresh loaves of bread.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Hopkirk writes that it was supposedly Nestorian monks who smuggled silkworm eggs out of China in their staffs.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

Much is said of his becoming acquainted with a Nestorian bishop or monk, from whom he is supposed to have learned something of Christianity.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)