Definitions for Donatist

Donatist Don·a·tist

Spelling: [don-uh-tist, doh-nuh-]
IPA: /ˈdɒn ə tɪst, ˈdoʊ nə-/

Donatist is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in Donatist (adinostt).

Definitions for Donatist

noun

  1. a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.

Origin of Donatist

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin Dōnātista; see Donatus, -ist

Examples for Donatist

He reformed ecclesiastical discipline in Africa, rent by Arian factions and Donatist schismatics.

The Donatist controversy sprang out of the Diocletian persecution in the beginning of the century.

The Donatist controversy was known to me for some years, as I have instanced above.

Neither Constantine nor Constantius had succeeded in stifling the Donatist heresy.

The Donatist controversy was known to me for some years, as has appeared already.

The Donatist schism (see Donatists) occasioned a number of important synods.

Faustinus, a Donatist, his persecution of the Catholics, 353.

The Donatist heresy with its deplorable results arose on the question of the eligibility of an individual bishop.

The Donatist treatises have met with little attention from individual editors.

A fourth part of the Donatist bishops followed the independent standard of the Maximianists.

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