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

Derived Forms

• paˈtristics, noun
• paˈtristically, adverb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of patristic¹

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

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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