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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unitarian \U`ni*ta"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
Unitarian \U`ni*ta"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. unitaire, unitairien, NL. unitarius. See Unity.]
(Theol.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
One who rejects the principle of dualism.
A monotheist. [R.]
--Fleming.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "one who rejects the doctrine of the Trinity," from Modern Latin unitarius (1650s), from Latin unitas (see unity) + -ian. Applied to Muslims and other non-Christian monotheists, but especially (and with a capital -u-) of a Christian body originally founded upon the doctrine of unipersonality. The American Unitarian Association formed in 1825. As an adjective from 1680s.
Wiktionary
a. Espousing a unitary view of something n. 1 One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist. 2 A muwahhid 3 One who rejects the principle of dualism. 4 A monotheist.
Wikipedia
Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to:
In Christian and Christian-derived theologies a Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism:
- Unitarianism, (1565–present) a liberal Christian theological movement known for its belief in the unitary nature of God, and for its rejection of the doctrines of the Trinity, original sin, predestination, and of biblical inerrancy.
- Unitarian Universalism (often referring to themselves simply as 'Unitarians'), a liberal pluralistic religious movement that grew out of Unitarianism, but later became more associated with Humanism, no longer officially opposing Trinitarianism or officially supporting Theism, and which holds no specific creeds. The largest denomination of self professed Unitarians.
- The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, most often known as "British Unitarians" or simply "Unitarians". Holds beliefs quite similar to Unitarian Universalists.
- Biblical Unitarianism, a fundamentalist non-Trinitarian movement (flourished c.1876-1929).
- Nontrinitarianism, a generic name for a Christian point of view that rejects the Trinity doctrine.
In other religious theologies
- The English translation of the Arabic term موحد Muwaḥḥid (plural موحدون Muwaḥḥidūn), alternately meaning "monotheist", which may refer to:
- The Almohad Caliphate, a dynasty and movement in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus
- The endonym of the Druze people, a monotheistic ethnoreligious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan
- The self-description of many Salafi and Wahhabi groups
In politics:
- Unitary state, a political system where a country is governed as one single unit
- A member of the Unitarian Party of Argentine history
- A period of the Argentine Civil War: The Unitarian-Federalist War: 1828-31.
In classical studies:
- A scholar who holds that the works of Homer were composed by a single individual (see Homeric scholarship)
- Redirect Unitarian
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Usage examples of "unitarian".
The throne of the Almohades, or Unitarians, was founded on the blindest fanaticism, and their extraordinary rigor might be provoked or justified by the recent victories and intolerant zeal of the princes of Sicily and Castille, of Arragon and Portugal.
In general, the persecuted sects, Anabaptists and Unitarians, were firmly for tolerance, by which their own position would have been improved.
Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.
There were local Unitarian and Congregationalist ministers, fellows from the Harvard Corporation, and a few representatives of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Lo by tendering him one-half his money in government bonds, and for this great wrong the peaceable Quaker, the humanitarian Unitarian, the orthodox Congregationalist and Presbyterian, the enthusiastic Methodist and staid Baptist, felt it but right Mr.
Its real basis is in the solidarity of the race, which has its basis in the unity of God, not the dead or abstract unity asserted by the old Eleatics, the Neo-Platonists, or the modern Unitarians, but the living unity consisting in the threefold relation in the Divine Essence, of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as asserted by Christian revelation, and believed, more or less intelligently, by all Christendom.
I met many who called themselves Unitarian Quakers, others were Hicksites, and others again, though still wearing the Quaker habit, were said to be Deists.
Finally the Unitarians, led by Lelio Sozini, found a home in Poland and made many proselytes, at last becoming so powerful that they founded the new city of Racau, whence issued the famous Racovian Catechism.
Unitarian ministers condoned the acts of enraged Boston laborers who burned down a Catholic convent after witnesses said that Protestant girls had been kidnapped and kept in dungeons to be made into nuns.
It is expected of persons of a certain breeding, in some parts of New England, that they shall be either Episcopalians or Unitarians.
Would you like me to tell you what a Unitarian horsedealer said to me at Brindisi about politicians?
A Unitarian horsedealer at Brindisi had all the allurement of the unexpected.
There is no danger of folks losin' their way to Heaven unless they want to, and they can go on their own favorite paths too, be they blue Presbyterian paths, or Methodist pasters, or by the Baptist boat, or the Episcopalian high way, or the Catholic covered way, or the Unitarian Broadway, or the Shadow road of Spiritualism.
His features were stiffened and decayed beyond normal recognition, but Rey knew the man, from his clothes, and from the still bulging, panicked eyes, to be the former sexton of the nearby Unitarian church.
Only Unitarians could have built Mount Auburn Cemetery, a burial place that was also a garden.