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patristic

[ puh-tris-tik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.


patristic

/ pəˈtrɪstɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Fathers of the Church, their writings, or the study of these
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • paˈtristically, adverb
  • paˈtristics, noun
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Other Words From

  • pa·tristi·cal·ly adverb
  • pa·tristi·cal·ness noun
  • unpa·tristic adjective
  • unpa·tristi·cal adjective
  • unpa·tristi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of patristic1

First recorded in 1830–40; patr(i)- + -istic
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Example Sentences

A paragraph sign sets off a list of indexes to various books, chiefly editions of the classics and Biblical or patristic writings.

Mediæval Christianity is at one with patristic, on this head.

Law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.

In patristic study he may have stood beneath Luther; in originality and profoundness of thought he was certainly inferior to More.

We are thus carried back immeasurably beyond the six thousand years of Patristic chronology.

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