Athanasian

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[ath-uh-nay-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

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Example Sentences

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Athanasian

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 Compton MacKenzie

"It would hardly be possible," says Dr. Burton, after quoting a passage, "for Athanasius himself, or the compiler of the Athanasian Creed, to have delivered the doctrine of the Trinity in stronger terms than these."

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman

He avowed himself “a Dissenter against his will,” and stated that the Athanasian Creed was the last stumbling-block in his way to joining the Church of England. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

In convocation he seconded a motion for the disuse of the Athanasian Creed, and in the House of Lords he voted for the abolition of university tests.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

Hargrave Jennings, in his Rosicrucians, says it is now used as an anagram exemplifying the Athanasian Creed; exactly, in fact, like the magic twy prong in shape.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

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