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Definition of Predestinarian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination.
2. Noun. Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny.
Generic synonyms: Necessitarian
Derivative terms: Determinism, Fatalism, Fatalist, Predestination, Predestination
Definition of Predestinarian
1. a. Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy.
2. n. One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.
Definition of Predestinarian
1. Noun. One who believes in predestination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predestinarian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predestinarian
Literary usage of Predestinarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Interesting Tracts: Explaining Several Points of Scripture (1850)
"But, be this as it may, do you indeed say, "No true predestinarian ever did or
would speak sol" Why every true predestinarian must speak so, and so must you ..."
2. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"CHAPTER III PREDESTINATION predestinarian CONTROVERSY: TEACHING OF THE SCHOLASTICS As
... A — predestinarian CONTROVERSY Predestination became a matter of ..."
3. The Life of Archbishop Cranmer by Charles Webb Le Bas (1833)
"... the Convocation—The necessity of such a Formulary—The Articles not
predestinarian—Cranmer not a predestinarian—nor a Puritan—The Articles framed chiefly ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"predestinarian-Mystical Sects.—The Heb>teans, founded by Ver- schoor, a licentiate
of the Reformed church of Holland deposed under suspicion of Spinozist ..."
5. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the by John Aikin (1812)
"The predestinarian controversy was on this account a topic in which he felt
himself much interested; and in 1631 he published a history of the Benedictine ..."
6. The Scholastic Philosophy Considered in Its Relation to Christian Theology by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"... in the predestinarian Controversy of the Ninth century—Subsequent history a
continuance of the struggle between Reason and Authority in the West. ..."
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