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anastasic

anastasic adjective: pertaining to resurrection.

Adjective

anastasic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to resurrection.
    • Early depictions were anastasic, the empty cross symbolizing the resurrection and hiding the manner of Jesus' death.2005 September, Rita Nakashima Brock, “Communities of the Cross: Christa and the Communal Nature of Redemption”, in Feminist Theology, volume 14, number 1
    • The event to which Paul is faithful (“subject to” and a loving “subject of”) is in fact a scissiparous one, at once anastasic and apocalyptic, incarnate and excarnate, physical and metaphysical, now-here and no-where (topos and outopos).2008 Autumn, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, “Paulitics”, in Symposium, volume 12, number 2

Origin of anastasic

From anastasis + -ic.

Questions about anastasic

What does anastasic mean?
Anastasic means pertaining to resurrection.
What part of speech is anastasic?
Anastasic is an adjective.

Words near anastasic in the dictionary

  1. anastamosis
  2. anastamotic
  3. anastases
  4. Anastasi
  5. Anastasia
  6. anastasic
  7. Anastasio
  8. Anastasios
  9. anastasis
  10. Anastasius
  11. anastate

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