Chalcedonian

American  

[kal-si-dohn-i-uhn] / ˌkæl sɪˈdoʊn ɪ ən /

adjective

1. relating to or emerging from the council of Chalcedon.

2. favoring or adhering to the conclusions of this council, especially the doctrine that Christ had two distinct natures.

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noun

• Chalcedonians
  plural

1. a person who favors or adheres to the conclusions of the council of Chalcedon, especially the doctrine that Christ had two distinct natures.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Chalcedonianism
  noun
• anti-Chalcedonian
  adjective
• non-Chalcedonian
  adjective
• post-Chalcedonian
  adjective
• pre-Chalcedonian
  adjective
• pro-Chalcedonian
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Chalcedonians
  plural

Example Sentences

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Chalcedonian Chalcedonians

Since secular-minded modern man does not understand or accept the notion of "divine," he argues, the church must find a logical but nonsupernatural equivalent of what the Chalcedonian Fathers were trying to express.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chalcedonian creed, as is admitted by Schulz, l.c., pp.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

This failure was in part owing to a sort of Chalcedonian blindness in the National Convention of 1787.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

Rightly was the doctrine of one will condemned as contrary to the Chalcedonian assertion of the Lord's perfect Humanity; and the condemnation was readily accepted by the Church.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

The "Chalcedonian giant," Thrasymachus, of whom we have already heard in the Phaedrus, is the personification of the Sophists, according to Plato's conception of them, in some of their worst characteristics.

From The Republic by Benjamin Jowett

He prepared next to attack the Chalcedonians, who had revolted from the Athenians, and had received a Lacedaemonian governor and garrison.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

According to the latter the Chalcedonians were eager to destroy the bridge; but Darius was nevertheless able to pass it.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

It was further stipulated by mutual consent and under oaths provided, that the Chalcedonians should continue the payment of their customary tribute to Athens, being also bound to discharge all outstanding debts.

From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns