patristic
of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
Origin of patristic
1- Sometimes pa·tris·ti·cal .
Other words from patristic
- pa·tris·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- pa·tris·ti·cal·ness, noun
- un·pa·tris·tic, adjective
- un·pa·tris·ti·cal, adjective
- un·pa·tris·ti·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby patristic
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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 TaylorMediæval Christianity is at one with patristic, on this head.
Lectures and Essays | Thomas Henry HuxleyLaw and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.
On the Genesis of Species | St. George MivartIn 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 GreenWe are thus carried back immeasurably beyond the six thousand years of patristic chronology.
Bible Romances | George W. Foote
British Dictionary definitions for patristic
patristical
/ (pəˈtrɪstɪk) /
of or relating to the Fathers of the Church, their writings, or the study of these
Derived forms of patristic
- patristically, adverb
- patristics, noun functioning as singular
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