| 单词 |
Nicolaitan |
| 释义 |
Nicolaitan, n. and a.|nɪkəˈleɪɪtən|
Also 7 Nich-, 6, 9 -ane.
[f. as next + -an.]
A. n. A member of an early Christian party or sect mentioned in Rev. ii. 6, 15, the precise nature of which is uncertain.
1526Tindale Rev. ii. 6 Butt this thou haste because thou hated the dedes off the Nicolaitans. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1560) 64 b, Called there of them the heresy of Nicolaitanes. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Nicholaitan, an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike. 1655Baxter Quaker's Catech. Pref. B j b, The Nicolaitans and the rest of the Gnosticks. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 406 There appeared another sort of hereticks called the Nicolaitans,..a horrid brutish sect. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xii. (1845) 274 There were some Gnostics who did not scruple to eat things sacrificed unto idols: and these men were then known by the name of Nicolaitans. 1861Trench Comm. Ep. Churches Asia 83 The Nicolaitans as we have seen are the Balaamites.
B. adj. Held by the Nicolaitans.
1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 373 It may be concluded that the Nicolaitane doctrine was a doctrine of libertinism in religious rites.
Hence Nicoˈlaitanism.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1655 The similarity of Nicolaitanism and the Antinomianism of Corinth. |
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