Bardesanist

plural Bardesanists

1. A follower of the teachings of Bardaisan; Bardaisanite.

   No doubt Bardaisan, or his son Harmonius, or whatever Bardesanist wrote the poem, was familiar with the great caravan route from India to Egypt, and used this knowledge as a substructure, but the whole is allegorical.

   1997, G. R. Mead, Fragments Of A Faith Forgotten, page 406

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   As a matter of fact these chapters coincide pretty closely with the Book of the Laws of Countries extant in Syriac and in part in Greek, written by an early Bardesanist ; and comparison shows that the Recognitions borrowed from the Bardesanist Book , not vice versâ ”

   1967, John Rylands Library, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library - Volume 4, page 64

   Synonyms: Bardesanite

comparative more Bardesanist · superlative most Bardesanist

1. Pertaining to or influenced by Bardaisan; Bardaisanite.

   As a matter of fact these chapters coincide pretty closely with the Book of the Laws of Countries extant in Syriac and in part in Greek, written by an early Bardesanist ; and comparison shows that the Recognitions borrowed from the Bardesanist Book , not vice versâ ”

   1967, John Rylands Library, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library - Volume 4, page 64

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   Singing here, as if in harmonious unison, the voices of the self-discovered Cartesian cogito, the Freudian Narcissus, Lacan's mirrored ego, Satre's ego-in-the-look-of-the-other, and Piaget's egocentric child hymn and irenic other, Bardesanist bards minstreling the master narrative that governs physis, bios, and psyche, cosmos, civilization, and self in unending remugience.

   1990, Tulio Maranhao, The Interpretation of Dialogue, page 299