The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antinomian \An`ti*no"mi*an\, a. [See Antimony.] Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
Antinomian \An`ti*no"mi*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the
moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is
necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated
with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
--Mosheim.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who maintains the moral law is not binding on Christians under the law of grace," 1640s, from Medieval Latin Antinomi, name given to a sect of this sort that arose in Germany in 1535, from Greek anti- "opposite, against" (see anti-) + nomos "rule, law" (see numismatics).
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to antinomianism. n. One who embraces antinomianism.
WordNet
n. a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism
adj. relating to or influenced by antinomianism
Usage examples of "antinomian".
I had never been placed for instruction under any Antinomian theologian, and had never been taught at home, either by word or deed, to wrest the Scriptures from their plain and simple meaning, I naturally became a thoroughly practical preacher.
Do not let us encumber and disfigure religion by absurdities, impossibilities, and antinomian abominations.
It contained, mixed up with a great variety of useful remarks, a number of anti-scriptural and antinomian passages.
From the time of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram - who accused Moses and Aaron of taking too much upon themselves, because every man in the congregation was as holy as his God-selected leaders - it has been a theory, one may even say a religion, with those who have been passed over, that their sole reason for their super-session is an election as arbitrary as that by the Antinomian deity, who, out of pure wilfulness, gives opportunities to some and denies them to others.
By then, Woyty had become an antinomian pariah, producing the barest minimum research to survive.
Well, we send six hundred bucks a year to the First Day Antinomian Church Mission in Greenland, and they furnish all the photos and reading matter that we send out.
Knife, one of the most strident laymen in that somewhat eccentric and quivering and fundamentalist sect, the Antinomian Church.
Major Antinomian: Major Clarabelle Antinomian of the First Army of Europa, sir.
For by this theory the gates of freedom and duty are hoisted, and the dark flood of antinomian consequences rushes in.
Jewish law, in some cases antinomian even in the sense of libertinism.
Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions.
No matter how red the Neon lights glow on Main Street, they cannot rival the horrid hellfire in the chapel of the Antinomians, or the True New Reformed Tabernacle of the Penitent Saints of the Assembly of God, or in most of the brick and gray stone Baptist and Methodist churches that resemble railroad depots of 1890, and he that knows not that encouraging fact has never been west or south of Blawenburg.
Gideon Planish at an Eskimo Culture rally held by the Antinomians, he inquired whether the good Doctor was a believing Fundamentalist who had family prayers night and morning.
The Antinomians even insisted, that the obligations of morality and natural law were suspended, and that the elect, guided by an internal principle more perfect and divine, were superior to the beggarly elements of justice and humanity.
On the other hand, those Antinomians for whom his Calvinism is not strong enough, may study the Pilgrimage of Hephzibah, in which nothing will be found which can be construed into an admission of free agency and universal redemption.