See Also: Apollinarian(dictionary)

Apollinarian (iou)



Apollinarian noun & adjective. L16.
[from Latin Apollinaris of Apollo, also as personal name: see -ARIAN.]
A. noun. Ecclesiastical History. An adherent of the heretical views of Apollinaris of Laodicea (4th cent. AD), who held that Christ assumed a human body but not a human soul. L16.
b. adjective.
Ecclesiastical History. Of or pertaining to Apollinaris or his beliefs. M17.
Sacred to or in honour of Apollo. Cf. APOLLONIAN adjective 1. M18.
Apollinarianism noun the doctrine of the Apollinarians L19.
Apollinarist noun (now rare or obsolete) = APOLLINARIAN noun LME.