Definition of Nestorian

1. Adjective. Relating to Nestorius or Nestorianism.

Partainyms: Nestorianism, Nestorius
Derivative terms: Nestorius

2. Noun. A follower of Nestorius.
Generic synonyms: Follower

Definition of Nestorian

1. n. An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of God though she might be called the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, India, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. Opposed to Eutychian.

2. a. Of or relating to the Nestorians.

Definition of Nestorian

1. Adjective. (sometimes pejorative) relating to teachings or to the followers of Nestorius ¹

2. Noun. (sometimes pejorative) A perceived follower of Nestorius in the fourth and fifth centuries. A member of a "Nestorian" church. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestorian

Nervous Nellie
Nervous Nelly
Nerys
Nesokia
Nessa
Nesselrode
Nesselrode pudding
Nessie
Nessies
Nessler
Nessler's reagent
Nestor
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
Nestor notabilis
Nestorian (current term)
Nestorian Church
Nestorianism
Nestorianisms
Nestorians
Nestorius
Net
NetBeans
Netanyahu
Netherlander
Netherlanders
Netherlandic
Netherlandish
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles

Literary usage of Nestorian

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

1. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The Nestorian seminaries at Edessa, Nisibis, Seleucia, etc , were in high repute. ... Among the later Nestorian authors the best known is Ebed Jesus, ..."

2. The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries from Its by Philip Smith (1879)
"The Nestorian Controversy—DlO DORUS of Tarsus and THEODORE of ... Continuance of the Nestorian Doctrines at Edessa—The Nestorian Church in Persia. § 7. ..."

3. Dissertations on Subjects Connected with the Incarnation by Charles Gore (1907)
"But this quasi- Nestorian language does not express the main tendency of Gregory's ... The Nestorian controversy. There was indeed one school of theology in ..."

4. China and Religion by Edward Harper Parker (1905)
"Close historical proofs of the authenticity of the facts given in the Nestorian stone.—The Syrian inscriptions on the stone corroborate or are corroborated ..."

5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... Bishop was consecrated in Persia; from which we may infer that the Christians of Southern India had already been brought within the Nestorian fold. ..."

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