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Trinitarian

Redemptionist \Re*demp"tion*ist\, n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

Trinitarian

Trinitarian \Trin`i*ta"ri*an\, a. [Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.] Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.

Trinitarian

Trinitarian \Trin`i*ta"ri*an\, n.

  1. One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.

  2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.

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trinitarian

n. (alternate form of Trinitarian English)

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Trinitarian (disambiguation)

Trinitarian commonly refers to ideas or things pertaining to the Trinity.

Trinitarian may also refer to:

  • Trinitarianism, a Christian doctrine
  • Trinitarian Order, a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in 1198 by St. John of Matha
  • A member of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • A member of Trinity College, Oxford

Usage examples of "trinitarian".

Trinitarian and Christological Formula, which, however, he retracted at a later period is well known.

In manner and appearance, the Columban brother might almost have been the living embodiment of those early times, his white habit and Celtic tonsure linking him with his inheritance of Druid spirituality, which had seen the coming of the teachings of Christ as fulfillment and extension of a Trinitarian concept long honored in their traditions.

The schism of the Donatists was confined to Africa: the more diffusive mischief of the Trinitarian controversy successively penetrated into every part of the Christian world.

The baptismal formula anticipates the later Trinitarian doctrine of three divine persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

It is quite possible that chromopsychosis could reach the fatal level by inducing hypertrophy of the trinitarian follicles with consequent cerebric catatonia.

Every scrap of land in the town was owned by the Church, and the Holy Surveyors of Rome had (or so Jack phant’sied) come out here and planted Trinitarian transits on the land that had been miraculously reclaimed from Lake Texcoco and hung holy plumb-bobs made of saints’ skulls and stretched cords of spun angels’ hair, driven crucifixes into the ground at strategickal Vertices, and platted the land into quadrilaterals, each one butted snugly against the next.