Lukan

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From Luke +‎ -an.

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Lukan (comparative more Lukan, superlative most Lukan)

  1. (Christianity) Relating to Luke the Evangelist or to Luke-Acts.
    • 1985, Williston Walker et al., A History of the Christian Church, 4th edition, page 107:
      In the structure of this rite (details of which varied from church to church), it is easy to discern the lineaments of the Lucan sequence of repentance, baptism, and laying-on of hands (though neither Tertullian nor Hippolytus is at any pains, as Luke apparently was, to separate the gift of the Spirit from the baptism proper).

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From Latin Lūcānus.

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Lukan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Lukans)

  1. the Roman poet Lucan