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Nikonian, n. and a.|nɪˈkəʊnɪən|
Also Niconian.
[f. Nikon, the name adopted by Nikita Minin (1605–81), 6th Patriarch of Moscow + -ian.]
A. n. An orthodox member of the Russian Church who accepted the reforms introduced by Nikon.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Nikon or his reforms. Hence Niˈkonianism.
1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects, Heresies 373/1 Niconians, a name applied by Russian dissenters to the orthodox members of the Established Church who accepted the reforms introduced by the Patriarch Nicon in the year 1654. 1877D. M. Wallace Russia xx. 308 Believing these ‘Nikonian novelties’ to be heretical. 1888S. M. Kravchinskii Russ. Peasantry II. 454 They [sc. the Stranniky] look upon their co-religionists..with the same disgust and abhorrence as they lavish on the Niconians. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIX. 695/2 A long struggle began between the faith of the Old Believers and the Nikonianism, as the official church was now generally called. |