📚 noun • entry_id 24743
Abelian
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abelonita
A member of a sect in fourth-century Africa mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married but lived in continence after the manner, as they claimed, of Abel.
1826, unnamed translator, Pierre Bayle, An Historical and Critical Dictionary [1697, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique; 1709, Historical and Critical Dictionary], Selected and Ab…
A difference of opinion existed as to the moral effects of matrimony among the early Christians; the Abelians, for instance, suffered no member of their sect to remain single, whil…
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