Manichee
- a word derived from Manichaeism.
Example Sentences
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Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage.
From Time Magazine Archive
In her innocence, too,—why, a Manichee would have done it for her own sake.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
He kept his rank of auditor in the Manichee Church.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
The outrages of Philagrius and Gregory were repeated by Syrianus and his successor, Sebastian the Manichee; and the evil work went on apace after the arrival of the new bishop in Lent 357.
From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill
To Faustus the Manichee he answers, "We have some things in common with the gentiles, but our purpose is different."
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
