Definitions for Ante-nicene

Ante-nicene an·te-Ni·cene

Spelling: [an-tee-nahy-seen, -nahy-seen]
IPA: /ˌæn ti naɪˈsin, -ˈnaɪ sin/

Ante-Nicene is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in Ante-nicene (-aceeeinnnt).

Definitions for Ante-nicene

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Christian church or period before the Nicene Council of a.d. 325.

Examples for Ante-nicene

On the positive proofs of his own position, Horsley cites numerous passages from the ante-Nicene fathers.

Protestants can as little bear its ante-Nicene as its Post-tridentine period.

In ante-Nicene times these took place in various provinces of the Church, but did not extend to the whole Church.

In the ante-Nicene period only ecclesiastical penalties, such as reproof, deposition or excommunication, could be imposed.

They are otherwise known to express usages or opinions of the ante-Nicene centuries.

In one respect we approach an examination of the ante-Nicene church with feelings of admiration.

Perhaps it will be said we ought to take the ante-Nicene Fathers as a whole, and interpret one of them by another.

Again, there is one and one only great doctrinal Council in ante-Nicene times.

The attitude of the church in the post-Nicene period differs from that in the ante-Nicene in two important respects.

It is not possible from existing documents to form a continuous and detailed history of the ante-Nicene Church.

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