Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pelagic . - noun A pelagic animal.
- Of or pertaining to Pelagius or Pelagianism.
- noun A follower of Pelagius; one who believes in Pelagianism.
- Inhabiting islands in the open sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
pelagic ; of or pertaining to the sea.
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Examples
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Orthodoxy does not disagree with the condemnation of Celestius, given a proper definition of what exactly Celestius taught rather than a pop apologetic caricature of a 'pelagian' bogeyman.
orrologion 2009
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Arnauld objected that this solution is “more pelagian than anything in Pelagius,” and that one must side with Augustine, who declared Pelagianism a heresy.
Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009
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Whoever said semi-pelagian synergists at best like Rob Bell aren't "spiritual."
"The Bible Is Not To Be Questioned" James F. McGrath 2008
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Churches, they had embraced the Semi-pelagian doctrine before
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace
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Analogous circumstances may have caused, in the ancient catastrophes of our planet, that singular mixture of pelagian and fluviatile bones and petrifactions, which is observed in some rocks of recent formation.
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Though the narrow circle within which all certain traditions are confined, does not present any of those general revolutions which have heaved up the Cordilleras and buried myriads of pelagian animals; yet
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Though the narrow circle within which all certain traditions are confined, does not present any of those general revolutions which have heaved up the Cordilleras and buried myriads of pelagian animals; yet Nature, acting under our eyes, nevertheless exhibits violent though partial changes, the study of which may throw light on the most remote epochs.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Analogous circumstances may have caused, in the ancient catastrophes of our planet, that singular mixture of pelagian and fluviatile bones and petrifactions, which is observed in some rocks of recent formation.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Nudge, his books and teachings remain filled with this mystical theology and its near pelagian view of mankind.
Apprising Ministries 2010
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All of this people-pleasing preaching put forth by today's semi-pelagian evangelical compromisers in the ECoD that somehow we are entitled to-and even expected to-have a "successful" purpose of self-introspective spirituality leading to a distorted view of an abundant best life now.
Apprising Ministries 2009
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