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Definition of Manichean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Manichaeism.
Partainyms: Manichaeism, Manichaeism, Manichaeism
Derivative terms: Manichaeism, Manichaeism
2. Noun. An adherent of Manichaeism.
Definition of Manichean
1. Noun. (alternative form of Manichaean) ¹
2. Adjective. (alternative form of Manichaean) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manichean
Literary usage of Manichean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and Religion by Edward Harper Parker (1905)
"Chinese confusion of the two Persian religions with Nestorianism, and of all
three with Buddhism.—Chinese definition of Manichean tenets. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The intellectual interests of these four years are more easily determined,
principally concerned as they are with the Manichean controversy, and producing ..."
3. History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the by Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"Nothing is more curious in Christian history than the vitality of the Manichean
opinions. That wild, half poetic, half rationalistic theory of Christianity, ..."
4. The Problem of Evil: A Criticism of the Augustinian Point of View by Marion Le Roy Burton (1909)
"HIS Manichean CONCEPTION. Just as in dealing with Augustine's conception of "
natura " we found that it was evolved and definitely ..."
5. The Problem of Evil: A Criticism of the Augustinian Point of View by Marion Le Roy Burton (1909)
"HIS Manichean CONCEPTION. Just as in dealing with Augustine's conception of "
natura " we found that it was evolved and definitely formulated in his ..."
6. Liberty and Necessity: In which are Considered the Laws of Association of by Henry Carleton (1857)
"This writer, in his Treatise on Education, has revived the Manichean doctrine of
two wills in the same man, one spiritual and the other material, ..."
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