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- noun Plural form of
Priscillianist .
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Examples
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The Priscillianists were never guilty of the crimes for which they were put to death.
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These prelates solicited the capital punishment of the Priscillianists with a charity so ardent that Maximus could refuse them nothing.
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But the suit instituted against the Priscillianists would have been founded on other depositions, which had been made against them in
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The Priscillianists were accused, like the Manichæans, of obscene doctrines, of religious nakedness and immodesty.
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Nevertheless, these latter informations were rejected by a great number of bishops and esteemed ecclesiastics; and the good old man Higimis, bishop of Cordova, who had been the denouncer of the Priscillianists, afterwards believed them so innocent of the crimes imputed to them that he received them into his communion, and found himself involved thereby in the persecution which they endured.
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Orosius, and in which this Spanish priest protests that he has plucked out all the plants of perdition which sprang up in the sect of the Priscillianists; that he had not forgotten the smallest branch or root; that he exposed to the surgeon all the diseases of the sect, in order that he might labor in their cure.
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Priscillianists who are any thing more devout than himself.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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[143] Marlinus, the famous French bishop, rejected the communion of a company of his associate bishops, because they had consented, with Maximus the emperor, unto the death of the Priscillianists, -- as vile heretics as ever breathed.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Though summoned, the Priscillianists refused to appear, and the synod pronounced sentence of excommunication against the four leaders, Instantius, Salvianus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The foundation of the doctrines of the Priscillianists was
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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