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patristic
[ puh-tris-tik ]
adjective
- of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
patristic
/ pəˈtrɪstɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to the Fathers of the Church, their writings, or the study of these
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Derived Forms
- paˈtristically, adverb
- paˈtristics, noun
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Other Words From
- pa·tristi·cal·ly adverb
- pa·tristi·cal·ness noun
- unpa·tristic adjective
- unpa·tristi·cal adjective
- unpa·tristi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of patristic1
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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.
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Mediæval Christianity is at one with patristic, on this head.
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Law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.
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In patristic study he may have stood beneath Luther; in originality and profoundness of thought he was certainly inferior to More.
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We are thus carried back immeasurably beyond the six thousand years of Patristic chronology.
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