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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Christian who believes that the substance and nature of God the Father and God the Son are different; an Arian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek heteroousios, differing in substance : hetero-, hetero- + ousiā, substance, nature; see Homoiousian.]
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