Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Christianity An adherent of Sabellianism.
- noun A speaker of a Sabellic language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Sabellians.
- noun One of a primitive Italian people which included the Sabines, Samnites, Luca-nians, etc.
- Of or pertaining to Sabellius or his doctrines or followers. See
Sabellianism . - noun A follower of Sabellius, a philosopher of the third century. See
Sabellianism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See
Sabellian , n. - noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
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- proper noun a
language once spoken inUmbria ,Italy - adjective Of or pertaining to the Sabellian language.
- noun a
member of agroup of earlyItalian peoples comprising theSabines ,Samnites , and others. - noun A
follower of Sabellius. - noun A Modalistic Monarchian.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions
Etymologies
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Examples
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I need not tell you that Piedmont is one of the most fertile and agreeable countries in Europe, and this the most agreeable part of all Piedmont, though it now appeared to disadvantage from the rigorous season of the year: I shall only observe that we passed through Sabellian, which is a considerable town, and arrived in the evening at Turin.
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Sabellian and other ancient modalists are sometimes called
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While Sabellian modalism was rejected for the reasons above, it is less clear why other kinds of modalism should be rejected.
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Sabellian modalism is usually rejected on the grounds that such modes are strictly sequential, or because they are not intrinsic features of God, or because they are intrinsic but not essential features of God.
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Eustatius, bishop of Antioch, of being a Sabellian; and Eustatius accused Eusebius of being an Arian.
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Christian expired under the sword of the Roman executioner, excommunicated by the Ebionite Christian, which Ebionite was anathematized by the Sabellian.
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And even though we can read Hobbes's formulation in a non-Sabellian way, it doesn't have anything in it to prevent a Sabellian reading.
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And even though we can read Hobbes's formulation in a non-Sabellian way, it doesn't have anything in it to prevent a Sabellian reading.
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In the historical period the Apennines were inhabited by Sabellian peoples who spoke a variety of Osco-Umbrian languages and who periodically raided and sometimes conquered the fertile plains around them.
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The great cultural units of historical ItalyEtruscan, Latin, Sabellian, and Iapygian in Apulia; Venetic in Venetiawere formed in the 9th and 8th centuries.
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