Macedonian

Definitions

1. A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
   countable
2. A member of an anti–Nicene Creed sect founded by the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople, which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.
   historical
3. A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
   uncountable
4. The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I do therfoꝛe ſo diligently admoniſh you of this thing, becauſe it is daungerous leſt among ſo many errours, and in ſo great varietie and confuſion of ſectes, there might ſtep vp ſome Arrians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and ſuch other heretikes, that might doe harme to the Churches with their ſubteltie.”

“With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch⟳ the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own⟳ writings,[…]. 3. Doctrine of the Macedonians in the same period.—The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as ‘Pneumatomachian,’ viz. that the Holy Spirit is not to be designated Θεός (frag. 32, lines 1–8, Dial. c. Maced. i. 1 [p. 1292 A]; frag. 29, Did. de Trin. iii. xxxvi. [p. 965 B]).”

“At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own⟳ form⟳ of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.”

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