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Definition of Schismatics
1. schismatic [n] - See also: schismatic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schismatics
Literary usage of Schismatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Delineation of Roman Catholicism: Drawn from the Authentic and Acknowledged by Charles Elliott (1851)
"The power of the pope is exercised over heretics and schismatics, denoted also
by oxen, ... schismatics are designated by oxen, on account of their pride. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Cyprian, against the schismatics of Rome as well as those of Carthage. He conceived
this unity as reposing on the effective authority of the bishops, ..."
3. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1908)
"This appears, first, from the fact that the church, that is, the doctrines and
principles of the church, from which these ancient schismatics separ- 1) See ..."
4. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"Ho then shows that toleration only increase schismatics. tue perverse generation.
Julian the Apostate knew thi when he gave ' public liberty to all and ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1877)
"On November 6th, a commission met in Constantinople to consider the question,
How shall those who have been ordained among schismatics be received, ..."
6. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"That the French Church reckons schismatics and their maintainers to be out of
the visible Catholic Church, and denies communion to them till they return and ..."
7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... who could not suffer a rebel ; and the schismatics within his vast empire were
soon reduced to the inconsiderable number of eighty thousand. ..."
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