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  • adjective Of or relating to John Lindley (1799–1865), English botanist and orchidologist.

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Lindley +‎ -an

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Examples

  • And on this point, let me here inform our Jebbite and Lindleyan abettors of grofs ariaoifm, that three divine peribns in one fpiritnaU immenfe, and eternal nature, caa make but one fpiritoal, immenfe, and eternal God: So that tor charge the trinitarian church of England with a tricheiftical fpecier of idolatry, is maaifeftly nntrne; becaafe this our chriflian dodrinq of the blefled trinity is evidently and perfedly confident with the oaity 9f theifffi.

    The Monthly Review 1780

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