patristics

[puh-tris-tiks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. patrology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of patristics¹

First recorded in 1840–50; patristic, -ics

Example Sentences

Much more important for the promotion of theological science, especially for patristics and church history, was another Benedictine congregation founded in France in a.d.

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In 1493 he went to Paris and thence to Italy, studying canon and civil law, patristics and the rudiments of Greek.

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Associated words: patristic, patristics, patrology, patrist. churchly, a. ecclesiastical. church officer. vestryman, warden, presbyter, trustee. churl, n. rustic, hind, bumpkin, lout, boor. churlish, a. boorish, rude, morose, unamiable. chyle, n.

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