Augustinian
Augustinian adjective: of, or relating to St Augustine of Hippo or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
Adjective
Augustinian (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to St Augustine of Hippo or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
- What does Freud oppose to the view that the future is already written? It is in so far as chance does exist in the physical, as opposed to mental world, that Freud distinguishes himself from a superstitious person. Yet the analyst never takes a chance event at face value. Everything mental — that...1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95
- I do not subscribe to any Augustinian type split of the world/universe into good or bad, one Godly, one absent of God.1995 February 1, Momabee, “Petitions, Acceptance, and Moshiach”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
- Of, or relating to several religious orders influenced by him.
Noun (1)
Augustinian (plural Augustinians)
- A follower of St Augustine or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
- A friar or monk of any Augustinian order.
Noun (2)
Augustinian (plural Augustinians)
- A member of a supposed radical group of the early Reformation, who allegedly believed that humans would not enter Heaven until the Last Judgment.
- Such be the […] Hutites, Auguſtinians, Monaſterians, Bocaldians, Hoffmaniſts, Georgians, Memniſts, with the reſt, amounting to the number of two hundred and three ſcore knowne Sects, by the computation of Caſpar Vlenbergius, and others aboue twelue yeeres agoe; […]1601 March 25, R[ichard] B[roughton], “How This Age of Protestants Exceedeth All Others, Both in Respect of Errors, and Practicall Impieties”, in An Apologicall Epistle: Directed to the Right...
- Of the Anabaptiſts, the ſame Author [Alexander Ross] Sect. 12. reckons up a great many different Sects, as the Mancerians, the Separatiſts, the Cathariſts, the Apoſtolicks, the Enthuſiaſts, the Silentes, the Adamites, the Liberi, the Hutites, the Melchioriſts, the Menoniſts, the Beucheldians, the...1735, [Richard Challoner], “Of [Martin] Luther’s Quarrel with Carlostadius [i.e., Andreas Karlstadt], and of the Divisions That Insued Thereupon amongst Protestants: […]”, in A Short History of the...
Augustinian meaning in Tamil
Augustinian in Tamil
- தூயதிரு, அகஸ்டைனைப் பின்பற்றும் கிறித்தவத் துறவி, அகஸ்டைனைச் சார்ந்த
Examples of Augustinian in a sentence
- But this Laplacean future is the future invoked by the dream; the real future, if such a thing can be allowed to escape the clutches of the Augustinian paradoxes, is a very different thing.1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95:
- [George] Eder lists […] Augustinians (who were psychopannychists), […]1962, George Huntston Williams, “Divisiveness Among, and Ecumenical Overtures to, the Moravian Anabaptists”, in The Radical Reformation...
Forms of Augustinian
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Origin of Augustinian
From Middle English Augustinen, from Latin Augustīniānus, from Augustīnus + -iānus, after Augustine of Hippo. By surface analysis, Augustine + -ian.
Learned borrowing from Latin Augustīniānī pl, from Augustīnus + -iānus, after an unidentified person so named. By surface analysis, Augustine + -ian.
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Questions about Augustinian
- What does Augustinian mean?
- Augustinian means of, or relating to St Augustine of Hippo or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
- What is Augustinian in Tamil?
- Augustinian in Tamil is தூயதிரு, அகஸ்டைனைப் பின்பற்றும் கிறித்தவத் துறவி, அகஸ்டைனைச் சார்ந்த. See Augustinian meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use Augustinian in a sentence?
- But this Laplacean future is the future invoked by the dream; the real future, if such a thing can be allowed to escape the clutches of the Augustinian paradoxes, is a very different thing.
- What part of speech is Augustinian?
- Augustinian can be an adjective or a noun.
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