Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A theologian.
  • noun A theological student.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A theologian.
  • noun Colloq. U. S. A student in a theological seminary.

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  • noun A student of theology
  • noun A theologian

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Examples

  • In the reign of Arcadius, Logomachos, a theologue of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • He soon entered into conversation with the Scythian Dondindac; for the theologue knew a little Scythian, and the other a little Greek.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • “Very extraordinary!” returned the theologue; “a Scythian family praying to God without having been instructed by us!”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • There is no comparison between us; Copleston is no theologue; I am.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • Courtland's preaching was not of the usual cut-and-dried order of the young theologue.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • He was only an Academy boy yesterday, or a theologue; unknown, unnoticed, saying his lesson in Xenophon, taking his notes on the Nicene Creed; blamed a little, possibly, by his teacher or by his professor, for inattention.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 Various

  • This is why the average theologue, in his first parish, is like the well-meaning but meddling engineer endeavoring with clumsy tools and insensitive fingers to adjust the delicate and complicated mechanism of a Genevan watch.

    Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch

  • The average theologue is deep-read in Hebrew Scripture, but ignorant of the A B C of the tongue in which is written the Bible of man's soul.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • "Go back and read your verse!" thundered the young theologue.

    Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

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