semi-Pelagianadj.n.

1626 Second Parallel A iij b No better then an halfe-faced groat of the Semipelagian alloy.

1626 Pym in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 341 A Semipelagian and a Popish Faction set on foot to the danger of this Church and State, whose Tenets are Liberty of Free-will.

1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. v. ii. v. §27 They had embraced the Semi-Pelagian doctrine before Cassian.

1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Two Lett. on Catholics i. 12 [They] enabled every sublapsarian, and supralapsarian, and semipelagian clergyman to build himself a neat brick chapel.

a1833 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XI. 346/2 Yet to Cassian is generally attributed the honour or disgrace of founding the Semipelagian School.

a1600 Hooker Wks. (1888) II. 540 If his grace did no otherwise draw our minds than Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians imagined.

1607 S. Hieron Old-man & New-man in Wks. (1620) I. 420 Some papists, who are in this point (as they are rightly called) semi-pelagians; they, acknowledging originall corruption, yet doe limit it.

1744 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. III. 511 (note) The Semipelagians think, that an assisting Grace is necessary, but that the first turn of the will to God is the effect of a man's own choice.

1885 Marcus Dods in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 472/2 A similar scheme was adopted by Cassian of Marseilles (hence Semi-pelagians are often spoken of as Massilians).