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binitarian, a. and n. Theol.|baɪnɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. L. bīnī (pl.) twofold, double, after Trinitarian. Cf. G. binitarisch (Loofs 1898).]
A. adj. Of or belonging to a belief in a Godhead of two persons only.
B. n. A believer in this doctrine. Hence biniˈtarianism.
1908W. R. Nicoll in T. H. Darlow Life (1925) 360 There are Trinitarians, Binitarians, Arians, and Unitarians. 1910Sanday Christologies Anc. & Mod. i. 12 The same alternation of Trinitarian and Binitarian language (the conjunction of Father, Son, and Spirit by the side of Father and Son). 1928K. E. Kirk in A. E. J. Rawlinson Ess. Trin. & Incarn. 207 The two strains of thought—the binitarian and the trinitarian. Ibid. 215 The binitarianism of Tertullian's earlier Catholic thought. |