| 单词 | heteroousian |
| 释义 | Heteroousian in British English (ˌhɛtərəʊˈuːsɪən, -ˈaʊsɪən) noun 1. a Christian who maintains that God the Father and God the Son are different in substance adjective 2. of or relating to this belief Word origin C17: from Late Greek heteroousios, from Greek hetero- + ousia natureHeteroousian in American English (ˌhetərouˈuːsiən, -ˈausiən) Ecclesiast noun 1. a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian) adjective 2. of or pertaining to the Heteroousians or their doctrine Word origin [1670–80; ‹ LGk heterooúsi(os) (Gk hetero- hetero- + ousí(a) nature, essence + -os adj. suffix) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1670–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: episode, guarantee, plan, routine, splutter-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian) |
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