The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apollinarian \A*pol`li*na"ri*an\, a. [L. Apollinaris, fr. Apollo.] (Rom. Antiq.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.
Apollinarian \A*pol`li*na"ri*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
Wiktionary
a. (context historical Roman antiquity English) In honour of Apollo. n. (context historical theology English) A follower of Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
Usage examples of "apollinarian".
Here Ippolit rejects the so-called Apollinarian heresy, a key point in Russian Orthodox doctrine.
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.