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Melanchthonian, a. and n.|mɛləŋkˈθəʊnɪən|
[f. name of Philipp Melanchthon (Gr. transl. of Schwarzerd ‘black earth’), a German reformer (1497–1560) + -ian.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to Melanchthon or his opinions.
b. n. A follower of Melanchthon.
1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 137 The Melanctonian doctrine of predestination. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. ii. i. §11 (1833) 480/1 There arose..three philosophical sects, the Melancthonian, the Aristotelian, and the Scholastic. 1863W. C. Dowding Life & Corr. Calixtus iii. 20 We have described him as a Melanchthonian both in taste and principle. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 474 It [the Anglican Church] is yet Melancthonian in its assertion of the visibility of the Church. |