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Definition: PELAGIAN |
PELAGIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines. 2. Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells. Noun1. A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace. |
"PELAGIAN" is a common misspelling or typo for: elegiac, paladin, palatial, pelage, pellagra, pillaging, plaguing, plain, religion. |
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Pelagianism is a belief that original sin did not taint human nature (which, being created from God, was divine), and that the will is still capable of choosing good or evil. Thus, Adam's sin was "to set a bad example" for his progeny, but his actions did not cast mankind from grace, or lead to the total depravity of the human race. Pelagianism views the role of Jesus Christ as "setting a good example" for the rest of us (thus, counteracting Adam's bad example). In short, man has full control, and thus full responsibility, for his own salvation as well as full responsibility for his own sin.The view was popularized by a monk and theologian, Pelagius, who was a favorite in Rome and later was forced to flee to Africa. Pelagius was contemporary with Augustine of Hippo who fought against this view, leading to its condemnation as a heresy by pope Zosimus (in the Tractoria, in the Eastern Council, and by emperor Honorius in 418).
See also: Semipelagianism
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Pelagius was a British monk who lived from approximately 360 to 435.A preacher, Pelagius found himself in Rome, and became concerned about the moral laxity of society he saw there. He blamed this laxity on the theology of divine grace preached by St Augustine of Hippo, among others. He taught a doctrine which has come to be called Pelagianism, holding that humans are responsible themselves for their own moral improvement, and God's grace can only assist men in doing those good deeds that remain within human ability.
When Alaric sacked Rome in 410, Pelagius fled to Carthage, where he came into further conflict with Augustine. His follower Coelestius was condemned by a church council there. Pelagius then fled to Jerusalem, but Augustine's followers were soon on his trail; Orosius went to Jerusalem to warn St Jerome against him.
Pelagius's teachings about sin and atonement were condemned as heresy at the Council of Carthage in 417.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pelagius."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ocean | Adjective: oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing; hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "PELAGIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PELAGIAN" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PELAGIAN": Semi-Pelagian. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pelagian | 4 |
controversy pelagian | 2 |
heresy pelagian | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PELAGIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i detit (marine), deti (billow, blue, drink, salt, saltwater). (various references) | |
Arabic | البيلاجيوسي. (various references) | |
French | pélagien. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyílt vízi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elagianpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pelágico (pelagic), relativo ao pélago (pelagic), que vive no mar alto. (various references) | |
Russian | морской (marine, maritime, nautical, naval, Neptunian, salt, saltwater, salt-water, sea), пелагический (pelagic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pučinski, pelagijev, morski (marine, maritime, oceangoing, ocean-going, sea, seagoing). (various references) | |
Spanish | pelagiano. (various references) | |
Turkish | enginlere ait, açık denize ait. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | морська тварина, морський (marine, maritime, nautic, nautical, naval, neptunian, pelagic, salty, water), пелагічний (pelagic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thực vật biển khơi, ở biển khơi, động vật biển khơi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: leaping, paginal, pealing. | |
-2 letters: agnail, alpine, anlage, apneal, galena, genial, linage, paling, penial, pineal. | |
-3 letters: again, agape, agile, alane, alang, algae, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, apian, aping, apnea, elain, galea, genip, glean, ingle, lagan, lanai, lapin, liana, liane, liang, ligan, linga, paean, pagan, palea, panel, panga, penal, pilea, plage, plain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: appealing, lagniappe. | |
+2 letters: antiplague, appareling, lagniappes, palavering, plateauing. | |
+3 letters: alphabeting, antiplagues, apparelling, appealingly, panegyrical, paralleling, plantigrade, platemaking, unappealing. | |
+4 letters: backpedaling, parallelling, plantigrades, platemakings, preinaugural, premalignant, spacewalking, wallpapering. | |
+5 letters: alphabetizing, angioplasties, backpedalling, campanologies, encapsulating, extrapolating, glasspapering, megalopolitan, paleomagnetic, panegyrically, perambulating, planographies, relandscaping, unappealingly. | |
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