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  • noun Plural form of Paulician.

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Examples

  • Paulicians is derived by their enemies from some unknown and domestic teacher; but I am confident that they gloried in their affinity to the apostle of the Gentiles.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • “Milner’s History of the Church” with some readers, may make it proper to observe, that his attempt to exculpate the Paulicians from the charge of Gnosticism or

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • A sect known as the Paulicians arose in Samosata in

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • In articles on the Manichees and early Christian heretics such as the Paulicians and Marcionites who proposed similarly dualistic solutions, Bayle conceded that on purely rational grounds, their view was no less rational than the orthodox one.

    This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

  • Paulicians, that pity for their speculative errors, which modern times might think had been well purchased by the extent of the temporal services of these unfortunate sectaries.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Paulicians, the Arians, the Eutychians, against those of their adversaries.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I acknowledge that I have not had my mind enlightened by all that Bayle has said about the Manichæans and Paulicians.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • This was an ancient document concerning the suppression of a heretical Gnostic sect, the Paulicians, in Orléans in the eleventh century.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • This was an ancient document concerning the suppression of a heretical Gnostic sect, the Paulicians, in Orléans in the eleventh century.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • This was an ancient document concerning the suppression of a heretical Gnostic sect, the Paulicians, in Orléans in the eleventh century.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

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