ante-Nicene

[ an-tee-nahy-seen, -nahy-seen ]

adjective

of or relating to the Christian church or period before the Nicene Council of a.d. 325.

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The attitude of the church in the post-Nicene period differs from that in the ante-Nicene in two important respects.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 | Various
In the ante-Nicene period only ecclesiastical penalties, such as reproof, deposition or excommunication, could be imposed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 | Various
Protestants can as little bear its ante-Nicene as its Post-tridentine period.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine | John Henry Cardinal Newman
Again, there is one and one only great doctrinal Council in ante-Nicene times.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine | John Henry Cardinal Newman
Perhaps it will be said we ought to take the ante-Nicene Fathers as a whole, and interpret one of them by another.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine | John Henry Cardinal Newman

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