Pelagianizev.
/pᵻˈleɪdʒ(ɪ)ənʌɪz/, /pᵻˈleɪdʒn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /pəˈleɪdʒ(i)əˌnaɪz/ Christian Church. Now rare.
intransitive. To hold or express Pelagian views. Also transitive: to render Pelagian; to convert or conform to Pelagian ideas.
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1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 83 In the point of Freewill the Church of Rome absolutely and wholly Pelagianizeth.
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 29 Doth not Arminius Pelagianize in this.
1857 Biblical Repertory July 518 If the English Bible has been altered to suit the public opinion of the first half of the last century, it would have been thoroughly pelagianized.
1996 E. Duffy in Tablet 6 July 882/2 The prayer has been Pelagianised, that is to say, it has shifted the emphasis onto human religious activity.
Derivatives
Peˈlagianizer n. rare
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1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 508 To let the new Pelagianizers see there was no quarter for them in Oxford.
1912 B. B. Warfield in Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 226/2 It is a far cry from Jonathan Edwards the Calvinist..to Nathaniel W. Taylor the Pelagianizer.
Peˈlagianizing adj.
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1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 315 Those Pelagianizing enemies of the grace of God.
a1861 W. Cunningham Hist. Theol. (1864) II. xxv. 376 The latter class they were accustomed to call Pelagianizing Remonstrants.
1968 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 29 356 The Pelagianizing Rousseau was no less concerned with the latter than with the former problem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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