Niceno-

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Nicene.

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Meanings

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  1. Nicene.

    The Church, according to the Niceno-Byzantine Creed, is One, Holy, Universal (Catholic), and Apostolic.

    1917, H[enry] M[artin] B[eckwith] Reid, “Thomas Smeaton (1536–1583)”, in The Divinity Principals in the University of Glasgow, 1545–1654, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, publishers to the University, →OCLC, page 91
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    The principal Arian nations were the Burgundians, the Visigoths, and the Lombards; and each in turn, after a severe struggle, abandoned the form of Christianity in which they had been instructed for the Niceno-Roman faith.

    1908, F[rederick] J[ohn] Foakes-Jackson, “Arianism”, in James Hastings, editor, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, volume I (A–Art), Edinburgh: T[homas] & T[homas] Clark, […]; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], →OCLC, page 783, column 2

Origin

From Nicene + -o-.

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