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The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.

The uniformitarian doctrine.

The doctrines of Unitarians.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

To convert to Arianism.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…

Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

Of or pertaining to necessarianism.

One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.

jection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce.

eed (, a summary of Christian faith, composed and adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, A. D. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, l…

ious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.

p. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.

Sectarianism. [Obs.]