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Priscillianist
Priscillianist Pris*cil"lian*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

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- and Aquitaine held a synod at Zaragoza in 380. Though summoned, the Priscillianists refused to appear. The synod pronounced sentence of excommunication...
- Kirche, I, 633), that Priscillianists are to be understood by this mention of Manichæans, although probably Priscillianists were at times called Manichæans...
- churches of other parts of Gaul and in Spain were being disturbed by the Priscillianists, an ascetic sect, named after its leader, Priscillian. The First Council...
- were celibate, or, if married, continent. Certain practices of the Priscillianists are known through the condemnatory canons issued by the 380 synod,...
- Spain through a certain Mark from Memphis. St. Jerome states that the Priscillianists were infected with it. The Thomasine Traditions refers to a group of...
- Prophecy into many smaller categories, one of which was Priscillianists. Epiphanius defined a Priscillianist as having particular reverence for Priscilla as a...
- Manichaeans and burned their books. He was equally firm against the Priscillianist sect. Bishop Turibius of Astorga, astonished at the spread of the sect...
- Arianism, Manichaeism, Gnosticism, Adamites, Donatists, Pelagians, and Priscillianists In 380 Emperor Theodosius I established Nicene Christianity as the...
- lists of portentous names current in Spanish heresy, that is, among Priscillianists; Balsamus and Leusibora being three times ****ociated with it (Ep. 75...
- as well as the bishop Instantius, as part of the prosecution of the Priscillianists. The isles were off the coast of the Brittonic Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia...