Nicaean
Americanadjective
adjective
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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 Lewis Wallace
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
But one half suspects that it was the scholarly and musical sound of the word, rather than any aptness of classical reference, that led to the use of the word "Nicaean."
From Poets of the South by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
However, they had been won to the Arian and not the Nicaean creed, and consequently were regarded as heretics by the orthodox Romans, who never became reconciled to rulers of another confession than themselves.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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