photian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Photios I of Constantinople.
Example Sentences
- "[…]; yea, they ſaid to the Photian Biſhops, Imperator jubet et vult, the Emperours will, pleaſure, and command is, that you ſhould ſpeake in your owne cauſe."
- "The persons who had represented the three patriarchs in the Photian synods were brought forward and made to confess themselves impostors;"
- "It is a major shortcoming of R. Henry’s Budé text of the Photian excerpts that he does not make clear when we have fuller versions of the Photian text."
- "Anathema to the Photians in like manner, who renewing the hereſy of Ebion, teach that our Lord Ieſus Chriſt tooke his beginning onely of the Virgin Mary."
- "To 9 Actions in which theſe things were traſacted there are added 27 Canons, in which beſides the fooliſh rage againſt the Photians and the honour beſtowed on Images, that is to be commended of the ſixth canon, which forbids Prieſtly veſtments to be uſed in ſcenicall playes though for ſports ſake."
- "From the sixth to the ninth session the synod amused itself by anathematising the Photians and their heresies, and burning their books and papers."
Etymology
From Latin Phōtiānus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Phōtiānus