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Eunomian, n. (a.) Ch. Hist.|juːˈnəʊmɪən|
[See -an.]
A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus in the 4th century a.d., who developed Arianism to an extreme form; an Anomœan. Also as adj. Hence Euˈnomianism.
c1449Pecock Repr. v. iii. 499 The sect of Acyanys and of Ennomynyarys [sic]. 1559Abp. Heath Speech 30 Jan. in Cobbett's Parl. Hist. (1806) I. 645 Damase, then bishop of Rome.., did give sentence against the heretics, Macedonians, Sabellians and Eunomians. 1577[see Macedonian a.2 and n.2]. 1607T. Rogers 39 Art. i. 6 Some thinke there be three Gods..not distinguished onely, but divided also, as did the Eunomeans, and Tretheites. 1780A. Butler Lives Saints (ed. 2) VII. 109 The sixth Volume [sc. of St. Ephrem's writings] gives us ninety other polemical Discourses against the Arian and Eunomian heretics. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. IV. xli. 205 Theodosius had been educated in the Eunomian heresy. 1880E. Venables in W. Smith Dict. Chr. Biogr. II. 288 Eunomianism, as a cold, logical system, wanted the elements of vitality. 1893W. M. Ramsay Church in Empire xviii. 448 Did the Eunomian differ from the Catholic only in point of doctrine? 1959Chambers's Encycl. V. 433/2 An extreme ‘Eunomian’ party of the Arians. Ibid., After his death the Eunomians..broke completely with the orthodox church. |