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Bardaisanite

Bardaisanite noun: a follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.

Noun

Bardaisanite (plural Bardaisanites)

  1. A follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.
    • Because of this condemnation of their ideas, he postulated that "the Bardaisanites did not accept this Epistle in their Apostolos", a statement not without possible significance for discussions of the formation of the Pauline canon in the early Syriac church.1999, G. J. Reinink, Alexander Cornelis Klugkist, A. C. Klugkist, After Bardaisan
    • But the pro-sexuality and pro-reproduction attitudes of the Bardaisanites, as well as their emphasis on human free will and the importance of living one's life in conscious conformity to the commandments of God, permit the possibility that infant baptism was practiced among them.2001, Paul Allan Mirecki, Jason David BeDuhn, The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World

Adjective

Bardaisanite (comparative more Bardaisanite, superlative most Bardaisanite)

  1. Pertaining to Bardaisan or his teachings.
    • Ephraem, who was engaged in a fierce warfare with the Bardaisanite heretics, probably had not the ability and certainly had no desire to distinguish in the mass of heretical psalms and hymns the compositions of Bardaisan from those of his successors, and so ascribes them all indiscriminately to him.1911, Journal of Biblical Literature - Volume 30, page 168
    • Not being gnostic in the strict sense, the Bardaisanite doctrine flavors a kindred atmosphere.1982, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, Robert W. Thomson, East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, page 38

Forms of Bardaisanite

Noun
pluralBardaisanites
Adjective
comparativemore Bardaisanite
superlativemost Bardaisanite

Origin of Bardaisanite

From Bardaisan + -ite.

Questions about Bardaisanite

What does Bardaisanite mean?
Bardaisanite means a follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.
What part of speech is Bardaisanite?
Bardaisanite can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Bardaisanite?
The plural of Bardaisanite is Bardaisanites.

Words near Bardaisanite in the dictionary

  1. Barczewo
  2. Barcău
  3. bard
  4. BARDA
  5. bardacious
  6. Bardaisanite
  7. Bardaisanites
  8. bardash
  9. bardashes
  10. Bardawil
  11. Bardawils

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