Manichaeann.adj.

1556 J. Clement in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. lxi. 214 Arians Eutichians Manichians..and all other heretikes.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxvi. 158b They [sc. the Greeks] fel..into many errors & damnable heresies, as into that of the Manicheans, which affirmed that there were 2 goddes, the one good and the other evill.

1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xi. 203 The Marcionites and Manichæans of old, who taught, that Christ had no real or substantial body.

1739 S. Boyse Deity 98 Could the wild Manichæan own that guide, The good would triumph, and the ill subside!

1793 D. Stewart Outl. Moral Philos. ii. 193 The Manicheans account for the mixture of good and evil in the universe, by the opposite agencies of two co-eternal and independent principles.

1811 Ld. Byron Let. 8 Dec. (1973) II. 142 Coleridge has been lecturing..&..we are going to make a party to hear this Manichean of Poesy.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (1877) I. iii. 426 St. Augustine relates that when he was a Manichaean, his mother for a time refused even to sit at the same table with her erring child.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. x. 39 Rousseau was never a manichaean towards nature. To him she was all good and bounteous.

1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 May 12/3 As they are not Manicheans, it follows that nothing exists but what is good.

1974 F. L. Cross & E. A. Livingstone Oxf. Dict. Christian Church (ed. 2) 864/2 The Manichaeans' enemies attributed to them many abominable practices, but St. Augustine..nowhere criticized their morals... In the later 4th cent. Manichaeans were numerous in Africa.

1986 J. M. Hussey Orthodox Church in Byzantine Empire i. vi. 156 The dualist sects had a long history going back to..the third-century Persian Mani and the Manichaeans.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vii. iii. f. 226 Augustine..detesting the Manicheane heresy.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. Pref. §1 If any thing more then ordinary might be said in defence of the Manichean Doctrine.

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §154 Favourers of Atheism or the Manichean Heresy.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 444 As dreadful as the Manichean God. Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. viii. 176 In another respect, the followers of Peter de Brueys rejected the usages of the Church, but in no rigid or ascetic, and therefore no Manichean spirit.

1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. ii. 230 Manichæan symbols being introduced on such monuments.

1951 A. Tate Ess. Four Decades (1970) 408 From the perversion of man's nature it follows by a kind of Manichean logic that external nature itself must be destroyed: man's surrender to evil is projected symbolically into the world.

1969 G. Greene Coll. Essays II. ii. 108 In this Manichaean world we can believe in evil-doing, but goodness wilts into philanthropy, kindness.

1988 Lit. Rev. Aug. 30/3 The Wittgenstein who emerges from this biography is a Manichean Calvinist... The philosophy is Manichean too.