Definition of Patristic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers.

Exact synonyms: Patristical
Partainyms: Church Father, Church Father
Derivative terms: Patristics, Patristics, Patristics

Definition of Patristic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Definition of Patristic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ''fathers'' of the early Christian church, especially to their writings ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patristic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patristic

patrimonial
patrimonially
patrimonies
patrimony
patriot
patrioteer
patriotic
patriotical
patriotically
patriotick
patriotism
patriotisms
patriots
patrisib
patrist
patristic (current term)
patristical
patristics
patrists
patritian
patrocination
patrocinations
patrociny
patrol
patrol boat
patrol car
patrol cars
patrol ship
patrol wagon
patrollable

Literary usage of Patristic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... IN THE APPROPRIATION OF THE patristic AND ANTIQUE WITH the conversion of Teuton peoples and their introduction to the Latin culture accompanying the new ..."

2. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"the reading opposed to that of the primary Greek MSS has patristic ... The patristic evidence which can appreciably come into account must thus be limited ..."

3. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"The patristic literature is exceedingly rich. It began with ST. ... patristic learning has been cultivated mostly by Roman Catholic and Anglican scholars ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"CHRISTIC AND patristic BAPTISM.!—This is the fourth and concluding volume of Dr. Dale's Series on Baptism. In the preceding volumes he has treated ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"... patristic BAPTISM.!—This is the fourth and concluding volume of Dr. Dale's Series on Baptism. In the preceding volumes he has treated successively ..."

6. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The Beginnings of patristic Literature.—According to the established rule of the church we have to distinguish between New Testament and patristic ..."

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