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

Marsi, a part of the Sabellian race, noted for Magic, and said to have been descended from Circê.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Indeed, we are not really sure the researches were Sabellian.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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

From St. Dionysius of Alexandria Letters and Treatises by Alexandria, Bishop of

The charges against the Nicene leaders were often more than plausible, for men like the Cæsarean Eusebius dreaded Sabellianism, and Marcellus was practically Sabellian, and the others aiders and abettors of his misbelief.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill

He had it now, and could wallow unmolested in Sabellian researches, and tear the flimsy theories of Bopsius—whose name we haven't got quite right—to tatters.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend