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Adoptionists
Language; Encyclopedias
Heretics who in the 8th century maintained that Christ was the son of God, not by birth, but by adoption, and as being one with Him in character and will.
Abbot
Language; Encyclopedias
Head of an abbey. There were two classes of abbots: Abbots Regular, as being such in fact, and Abbots Commendatory, as guardians and drawing the revenues.
Joseph Ames
Language; Encyclopedias
Historian of early British typography, in a work which must have involved him in much labour (1689-1759).
Abdications
Language; Encyclopedias
Of which the most celebrated are those of the Roman Dictator Sylla, who in 70 B.C. retired to Puteoli; of Diocletian, who in A.D. 305 retired to Salone; of Charles V., who in 1556 retired to the ...
Angers
Language; Encyclopedias
On the Maine, the ancient capital of Anjou, 160 m. SW. of Paris, with a fine cathedral, a theological seminary, and a medical school; birthplace of David the sculptor.
