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Augustinian, a. (and n.)|ɔːgʌˈstɪnɪən|
[f. L. Augustīn-us (see prec.) + -ian.]
1. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine or his doctrines, the prominent tenets of which were immediate efficacy of grace and absolute predestination. n. An adherent of these doctrines.
1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. 36 But what was..become of the Augustinian spirit? 1851J. Torrey Neander's Ch. Hist. (Bohn) IV. 379 The Augustinian doctrine of election. 1860J. Gardner Faiths of World 263 This notion of human freedom was denied by the Augustinians.
2. Belonging to (n. one of) the order of Augustines.
1602W. Watson Decacord. 75 Dominicans, Augustinians, and other poore religious Friers. 1875T. Lindsay in Sund. Mag. June 589 The Augustinian monks in Brussels. 1882Athenæum 3 June 692/3 A house of Augustinian canons.
3. Adhering to (n. an adherent of) Augustine the Bohemian.
1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1647) 30 Augustinians..affirme the entrance into Paradice to have been shut up untill Augustine the Bohemian opened it for..those that were of his sect.
Auguˈstinianess, a female disciple of St. Augustine. Auguˈstinianism, Auˈgustinism, the doctrines held by him and his followers.
1853Faber All for Jesus 140 Veronica the Augustinianess. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. (1867) 356 The Calvinism, or rather Augustinianism, of Aquinas. 1883Athenæum 3 Feb. 148/3 [In] the eighteenth epistle..Augustinism is directly opposed. |