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Nestorian

An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.

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Follower 76% connected

One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

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Nestorianism 66% connected

The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.

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Adore verb · 78% connection

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

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Ambigenous adjective · 78% connection

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

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Amphibious adjective · 78% connection

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Auto-da-fe noun · 78% connection

An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great…

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Blessing verb · 78% connection

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronou…

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Byzantine noun · 78% connection

A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. C (…

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Crossbreed noun · 78% connection

Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.

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Damianist noun · 78% connection

A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

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Divine adjective · 78% connection

Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

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Enthusiasm noun · 78% connection

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly…

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Eudoxian noun · 78% connection

A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Ariu…

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Eutychian noun · 78% connection

A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to const…

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Fifthly adverb · 78% connection

In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

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Frank adjective · 78% connection

A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

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Glory noun · 78% connection

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

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Gnostic noun · 78% connection

One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian…

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