Paterniann.
/pəˈtəːnɪən/, U.S. /pəˈtərniən/ Church History. rare.
A member of a Manichaean sect (condemned as heretical by a council held at Rome in 367) which held that God made the higher parts of the body and Satan the lower ones. Usually in plural.
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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 500 (MED) The sect of Paternyanys..helden that the louȝer parties of a mannys bodi weren maad of the feend.
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §x, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The Collydirians, Paternians, Tertullianists, Montanists.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Patricians, or Paternians, ancient Sectaries, who disturbed the Church in the Beginning of the third Century.
1852 J. A. Giles tr. M. Paris Eng. Hist. I. 157 All these he distinguished by the common appellation of ‘Bugares’, whether they were Paternians, Jovinians, or Albigenses, or were defiled by other heresies.
1902 H. James in G. Flaubert Madame Bovary p. xxxii The Paternians, the Marcosians and the Carpocratians—what are all these..but a confession of extreme impatience with the actual and the near?
1957 M. A. Schumacher tr. St. Augustine Against Julian 270 The Paternian and the Venustian heretics, who resemble the Manichaeans, hold that the Devil made man's body from the loins to the feet, but God placed the upper parts upon this as on a kind of pedestal.
1993 P. Marsden Crossing Place 116 There were also the Helvidians and Paternians who were well-known for licentiousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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