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Definition of Augustine
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Church Father, Father, Father Of The Church, Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Definition of Augustine
1. n. A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.
Definition of Augustine
1. Proper noun. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), a church father and a writer. ¹
2. Proper noun. ( male given name). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Augustine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Since 1887 a new edition of St. Augustine has been appearing in the "Corpus ...
The principal tractates of St. Augustine are also found in the collection of ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Plato, however, is not to be abandoned, for he accords with Augustine. But the
authority of Scripture as the authority of the Holy Spirit exceeds that of ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"There are indeed two points of difference between them ; Augustine ... Yet Augustine
affirms and argues his doctrines with a breadth and a positive ..."
4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) was a Numidian by birth. He had a Christian
mother, whose devotion ... Augustine was well versed in the Latin classics. ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"PINKERTON refers to the well-known treatise of St. Augustine De Trinitate.”
This also is incorrect; I referred to and related a legend of St, Augustine, ..."
6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"Ambitious to distinguish his pontificate by the conversion of the British Saxons,
he pitched on Augustine, a Roman monk, and sent him with forty associates ..."
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