Adessenarian

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English

Etymology

From Latin adesse (“to be present”); ad + esse (“to be”).

Noun

Adessenarian (plural Adessenarians)

  1. (historical, chiefly in the plural, rare) A believer in the real presence of Christ's body in the Eucharist, but not by transubstantiation, applied to followers of Luther.
    • 1819, George Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present States of Every Branch of Human Knowledge:
      ADESSENARIANS, a sect of Christians, who maintain that Jesus Christ is really present in the eucharist, though not by way of transubstantiation. The adessenarians differ among themselves, some of them holding that the body of Jesus Christ is in the bread;
    • 1858, James Gardner, The Faiths of the World, page 29:
      The Adessenarians were far from being agreed in reference to the mode in which the real presence existed; some […]
    • 1899, Audin (M., Jean Marie Vincent), History of the Life, Works, and Doctrines of John Calvin, page 403:
      At the death of Zwingle, the church of Zurich was divided into […] the Arhabenarians, the Adessenarians, the Metaphorists, the Iscariotists, and the Nothingarians. The dispute, for a moment tranquilized, was revived again on the slightest historical accident.

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