Definitions for Laodicean

Laodicean La·od·i·ce·an

Spelling: [ley-od-uh-see-uh n, ley-uh-d
IPA: /leɪˌɒd əˈsi ən, ˌleɪ ə də-/

Laodicean is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 533 anagrams from letters in Laodicean (aacdeilno).

Definitions for Laodicean

noun

  1. a person who is lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion.

adjective

  1. lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.

Origin of Laodicean

First recorded in 1605-15; Laodice(a) + -an

Examples for Laodicean

He is the Laodicean, neither cold nor hot, whom decent people consider bad company.

The connection forbids us to suppose that a letter written by the Laodicean Church is meant.

As a season she is distinctly a failure, being neither one thing nor the other, neither hot nor cold, a very Laodicean.

Naturally the public could not swallow it, for even God cannot digest a Laodicean.

The Laodicean attitude of a shrewd publisher hurt her less than at first.

And the Laodicean must represent her last, and so her worst condition!

Is it possible that we have the lost Laodicean document in the epistle before us?

They show an amount and degree of interest in ideas of the kind which are surprising to a Laodicean like me.

Verily we are in the last--the Laodicean stage--that of the Lukewarm Church.

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