patristic

[ puh-tris-tik ]

/ pəˈtrɪs tɪk /

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adjective

of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.

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Sometimes pa·tris·ti·cal .

Origin of patristic

First recorded in 1830–40; patr(i)- + -istic

OTHER WORDS FROM patristic

pa·tris·ti·cal·ly, adverbpa·tris·ti·cal·ness, nounun·pa·tris·tic, adjectiveun·pa·tris·ti·cal, adjective

un·pa·tris·ti·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby patristic

patriot, patriotic, patriotism, Patriots' Day, patripotestal, patristic, patristics, patrix, patroclinous, patrocliny, Patroclus

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How to use patristic in a sentence

A paragraph sign sets off a list of indexes to various books, chiefly editions of the classics and Biblical or patristic writings.
A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies|Archer Taylor
Mediæval Christianity is at one with patristic, on this head.
Lectures and Essays|Thomas Henry Huxley
Law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.
On the Genesis of Species|St. George Mivart
In patristic study he may have stood beneath Luther; in originality and profoundness of thought he was certainly inferior to More.
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)|John Richard Green

We are thus carried back immeasurably beyond the six thousand years of Patristic chronology.
Bible Romances|George W. Foote

British Dictionary definitions for patristic

patristic

patristical

/ (pəˈtrɪstɪk) /

adjective

of or relating to the Fathers of the Church, their writings, or the study of these

Derived forms of patristic

patristically, adverbpatristics, noun functioning as singular

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