arian
/ˈɛəɹi.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A believer of Arianism, particularly (historical) the official Arian churches lasting to the 7th century.
noun
Synonym of heretic, any Christian differing from any of the beliefs of the speaker.
Dated; Derogatory
adj
Of or pertaining to Arius or Arianism.
adj
Of or related to Aries, its nature, and its influence.
noun
Alternative spelling of Aryan.
Example Sentences
- "The Arians celebrated the virtue of their pious confessor; the Catholics ambitiously claimed his alliance; and the Pagans, who might be susceptible of shame or remorse, were deterred from the repetition of such unavailing cruelty."
- "The highways of the East were crowded with Homoousian, and Arian, and Semi-Arian, and Eunomian bishops, who struggled to outstrip each other in the holy race: […]."
- "He flirts with the Arian heresy, which doubted Jesus’s full divinity, and he embraces Quaker-style religious pacifism, arguing that just-war theory is out of date in an age of nuclear arms and total war."
- "The Arian nature is to create the idea..."
Etymology
From Late Latin Arianus, from Arius + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἄρειος (Áreios), from ἄρειος (áreios, “Arean, warlike”), from Ἄρης (Árēs, “Ares”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming adjectives”). Cf. Arean.