Sabellian

American  

[suh-bel-ee-uhn] / səˈbɛl i ən /

noun

1. a member of a group of early Italian peoples including the Samnites and Sabines.

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Sabellian British  

/ səˈbɛlɪən /

noun

1. an extinct language or group of languages of ancient Italy, surviving only in a few inscriptions belonging to the Osco-Umbrian group

2. a member of any of the ancient peoples speaking this language, including the Sabines

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adjective

1. of or relating to this language or its speakers

Etymology

Origin of Sabellian

1595–1605; < Latin Sabell ( us ) a member of any of the Oscan-speaking Italic ethnic groups + -ian

Example Sentences

His famous letter to our Dionysius on the Sabellian controversy is not included in this volume.

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Old Sabellian" of Picenum, "believed to be the oldest inscriptions on Italian soil.

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The Patripassians asserted the unity of God in such a manner as to exclude all distinction of Persons; and in this respect they were imitated by the Sabellians of the ensuing century.

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Her moral greatness is more often identified by the poets with the virtues of the old Sabellian stock than with those of the ‘populus Romanus Quiritium.’

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His Essay on the Trinity, first printed in 1903, was long supposed to have been withheld from publication because of its containing Arian or Sabellian tendencies.

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