Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ending occurring in theologian and some later words that form nouns of agent going with names of sciences in -logy. Examples are theologian (the first of the type), geologian, philologian, etc. See -loger, -logist.
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Examples
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It may indeed be true, as many a sophisticated theo - logian has argued, that religious commitment is per - fectly compatible with a high degree of ignorance about God and the nature — whatever that may mean — of “ultimate reality.”
AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968
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The most influential medieval theo - logian, Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenth century re - asserted Aristotle's teaching that women are mis - begotten males, whose existence is due to some defect in the active force (that of the father) or to some material indisposition, or to some external influence such as the south wind, which is moist (Summa Theo - logica, I, 92, 1, ad 1).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARY DALY 1968
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And he calls the collection logian (a "contribution,") immediately from the very first making out the things to be easy.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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I am right now reading about "geo-logian" (lol) Thomas Berry.
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Mr Blond, a Liverpudlian theo - logian, despises the City, arguing that "the great error of the last fifty years is that the Conservatives think they must believe in the free market, but the free market ... destroys almost all things, traditions, family life, societies, cultures".
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A former Guantanamo de tainee has emerged as a leading ideologue and theo logian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world.
The Two Malcontents 2009
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Per Di -. logian notat cius inconftantiam» suram fcilicet fa/lacem; ut fupra.
Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788
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[358] logian, Ben. eulogian, bounty, as 2 Cor. ix.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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His arduous and disinterested toil will be rewarded by the general gratitude, and his work will long prove useful not only to every theo - logian 'utriusque', but also 'cuiusque ecclesiae'".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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