Nicaean
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Nicaean church in which the seventh Council dispatched iconoclasm in the year 787 has been roofed and restored, and plans to build new hotels in the town are under way.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2011
He wrapped the parcel in the white silken cover she gave him, making mental comparison, nevertheless, with the old Nicaean ordinances.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis
Small wonder then that the Nicaean creed declares that Christ is "God of God, Light of light."
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Pious minds amplified and transformed them, and it was stated that Paphnutius, from the top of his pillar, had converted the Prefect of the Fleet to the faith of the apostles and the Nicaean fathers.
From Thais by Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
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