Donatist

[ don-uh-tist, doh-nuh- ]

/ ˈdɒn ə tɪst, ˈdoʊ nə- /

noun

a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.

Origin of Donatist

1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin Dōnātista; see Donatus, -ist

OTHER WORDS FROM Donatist

Don·a·tism, noun Don·a·tis·tic, Don·a·tis·ti·cal, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for donatist

He reformed ecclesiastical discipline in Africa, rent by Arian factions and Donatist schismatics.

Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV |John Lord
The Donatist treatises have met with little attention from individual editors.

Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy |Aurelius Augustine
The Donatist controversy was known to me for some years, as has appeared already.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua |John Henry Cardinal Newman
A fourth part of the Donatist bishops followed the independent standard of the Maximianists.

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |Edward Gibbon

Faustinus, a Donatist, his persecution of the Catholics, 353.

Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy |Aurelius Augustine

British Dictionary definitions for donatist

Donatist

/ (ˈdəʊnətɪst) /

noun

a member of a schismatic heretical Christian sect originating in N Africa in 311 ad, that maintained that it alone constituted the true church

Derived forms of Donatist

Donatism, noun

Word Origin for Donatist

C15: from Late Latin Dōnātista a follower of Dōnātus, bishop of Carthage

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