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Date: 03-26-04 13:18
Patristic
[mod. f., as if from patrist, patrism (f. L. patr-, Gr. - father) + -IC: cf. mod.F. patristique (neologism in Littrй, 1875), Ger. patristisch (Engelhardt 1822).]
A. adj. a. Of or pertaining to the study of the writings of the Fathers of the Church, as in patristic learning or scholarship; b. hence, loosely, of or pertaining to the Fathers themselves, or their writings, as in patristic works, writings, doctrines.
a. 1837-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. II. III. ii. §9. 404 Theological controversy..became..more patristic, that is, appealing to the testimonies of the fathers. 1844 GLADSTONE Glean. V. xxiv. 99 A diligent student and a master of patristic learning.
b. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. iii. §I. 113 The chief works of Latin Literature, patristic or classical. 1875 SCRIVENER Lect. Text N. Test. 10 Since each primitive version was first made, or each Patristic work first published. 1885 CLODD Myths & Dr. II. ix. 202 A doctrine..due to Patristic theories of incorporeal souls.
B. n.
1. A student or adherent of the doctrines or opinions of the Fathers.
1842 G. S. FABER Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 149 The..system of the schoolmen..was..opposed by the old-fashioned Biblicists and Patricists.
2. pl. The study of the lives, writings, or doctrines of the Fathers. [Ger. patristik (1846 in Brockhaus Convers. Lex.), F. patristique.]
1847 [see PATROLOGY]. 1882-3 SCHAFF Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1765 Patristics and Patrology are the names of that department of theology..concerning the lives, writings, and theological doctrines of the Church Fathers.
Hence patristical a. = PATRISTIC a. (hence patristically adv., patristicalness); patristicism (-sz()m), properly, a system founded upon the study of the Fathers; loosely, the doctrine or mode of thought of the Fathers themselves.
1831 J. H. NEWMAN Lett. (1891) I. 251, I have..received a..present of books..consisting of thirty-six volumes of the Fathers;..I am now set up in the *patristical line. 1837-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. III. ii. §27 Chillingworth was..a man versed in patristical learning. 1849 W. CURETON Corpus Ignat. 291 , so frequently occurring in the earliest Patristical writings. a1855 J. J. BLUNT Right Use Early Fathers Ser. I. i. (1857) 6 Consistent with ancient patristical precedent.
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1882 OGILVIE, *Patristically, in a patristic manner.
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1836 PUSEY Let. to Newman in Liddon Life (1893) I. xviii. 421 There is a good deal of close argument from the text of Scripture: no imaginativeness, or *patristicalness.
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1864 DRAPER Intell. Devel. Europe x. I. 305 *Patristicism, or the science of the Fathers, was thus essentially founded on the principle that the Scriptures contain all knowledge permitted to man. 1899 Speaker 30 Dec. 338/2 High-pitched devotional patristicism.
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