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Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.

The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward. (1673).

Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

The tenets of the Sadducees.

t, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii. 6.

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.

The tenets or principles of the secularists.

The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians.

Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.

The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.

The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption…

The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely com…

Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.

A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland. Eadie.

That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality. Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity. Shak.