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Simonian2, n. and a.|saɪˈməʊnɪən|
[ad. med.L. *Simonianus, f. Simon (see def.).]
A. n. A member of an early Christian sect named after Simon Magus and regarded as heretical. (Cf. Simonist2.)
1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. (1625) 57 Some thinke, that to attend vpon vertue, and to practise good workes, is a yoke too heauy, and intollerable; as the Simonians. 1655Baxter Quaker's Catech. Pref. B ij, He followed the first Hereticks, the Simonians and their followers, with the same kinde of judgements. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 129 There were no less than ten sorts of heretical Antichrists in the apostle John's days, the Simonians, Menandrians, Saturnalians, &c. 1728Chambers Cycl., Simonians, a Sect of ancient Hereticks, the first that ever disturb'd Christianity. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. (1845) 235 We are assured, that this convenient doctrine was a characteristic of the Simonians and other Gnostics. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 79/1 Even the Tübingen critics themselves could not deny the existence of a sect of Simonians.
B. adj. Pertaining to, characteristic of, the sect of the Simonians.
1883Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2184 The Simonian teachings gradually take on the form of an elaborate gnostic system. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 79/1 note, Hippolytus..gives extracts from a Simonian book.
Hence Siˈmonianism, the doctrine of the Simonians.
1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 80/2 We have therefore in Simonianism a rival system to Christianity. 1902Expositor Sept. 227 There had been a revival of Simonianism in Samaria. |