Athanasian

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[ath-uh-ney-zhuhn] / ˌæθ əˈneɪ ʒən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Athanasius or to the doctrines ascribed to him.

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noun

1. Theology. a follower of Athanasius or a believer in the Athanasian Creed.

Etymology

Origin of Athanasian

First recorded in 1580–90; Athanasi(us) + -an

Example Sentences

And have you got any good from learning the collects for Sunday and the Benedicite and the Athanasian Creed and the thirty-nine Articles?

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

I believed every one of them as recited by Mr Jeremy, and I found the Athanasian the most convincing of them all.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Again, did he receive the Athanasian Creed on any logical demonstration that its articles were in Scripture?

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Is Jesus the central figure in the Nicene, or the Athanasian creed?

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

What I am to do with my surplus venom when I close 'O'Dowd' I don't see, except I go into the Church and preach on the Athanasian Creed.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund