Meaning of subintroduce | Babel Free

Definitions

To introduce in a secret or subtle manner.

transitive

Examples

“The onely true God,…no supposed,…subintroducted God or Gods.”

“To say that the first practise and institution is necessary to be followed, is called Heretical: to refuse the later subintroduc’d custom incurrs the sentence of Excommunication.”

“What if others, to ſave themſelves from Perſecution, conceal’d part, and corrupted more of the Doctrin of Chriſt by their own Traditions, taken not from Chriſt, but from their Forefathers, Jews or Gentiles? Then thoſe who were out of Perſecution, or valu’d it not ſo much as they did their Conſcience, would oppoſe their Unchriſtian Proceedings: Then the Fathers, Doctors, and Paſtours of the Church would reveal what they had conceal’d, reſtore what they had corrupted, and manifeſt that their Pretences and Subterfuges were Falſe, and that the Doctrin they ſubintroduc’d, had not deſcended by the open Channel of the Chriſtian Church’s Tradition.”

“Book 7, Cap. 30, he gives us an Account, that Paulus Samoſatenus, who ſpoke againſt the Godhead of Jeſus Chriſt, and became a Founder of that Hereſie, was a ſenſual Man, countenanc’d thoſe called Subintroduc’d Women, who were neither Wives nor Concubines, but a third ſort, whom they kept, as they pretended, not to gratifie their Luſts, but out of a pious deſign: And they take particular notice, that this Paul glutted himſelf with all Senſual Delights, as Feaſting, Drinking, and the like, which are the common Incentives of Luſt, and that he carried two beautiful Women conſtantly along with him.”

“The mode, in which the expression of it is subintroduced, seems to denote a repression of his own full meaning.”

“The practice of allowing ‘subintroduced sisters’ to live in the houses of the celibates.”

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