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Definition of Nestorian
1. Adjective. Relating to Nestorius or Nestorianism.
2. Noun. A follower of Nestorius.
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
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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