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Don·a·tist 
[don-uh-tist, doh-nuh-] Pronunciation Key
[don-uh-tist, doh-nuh-] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid. |
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| Don·a·tist
(dŏn'ə-tĭst, dō'nə-) Pronunciation Key
n. A member of a rigoristic, schismatic Christian sect, strongly opposed by Saint Augustine, that arose in North Africa in the fourth century A.D. and believed in sanctity as requisite for church membership and administration of all sacraments. [Medieval Latin Donatista, after Donatus, fourth-century A.D. ecclesiastic and rival claimant of the bishopric of Carthage.] Don'a·tism n. |
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Donatist
Donatist
c.1460, adherent of a Christian sect in 4c. North Africa, from M.L. Donatista, from Donatus name of one of the principal men in it. The schism had more to do with episcopal succession in Carthage than with doctrine.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| donatist | |
adjective | |
| 1. | of or relating to Donatism |
noun | |
| 1. | an adherent of Donatism |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Donatist
Don"a*tist\, n. [LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.] (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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