Crossword-Solution: DONATIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Donatist | n. | A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DONATIST | anagram | DOASTINT |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DONATIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| NORTH African Christian sect member | 1 answer |
| RELIGIOUS sect, type of | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DONATIST (5)
The honors and estates of the church were attributed to _his_ suffragan bishops, and it was not without difficulty, that Constantine was satisfied with inflicting the punishment of exile on the principal leaders of the Donatist faction.
Spanheim.] While the flames of the Arian controversy consumed the vitals of the empire, the African provinces were infested by their peculiar enemies, the savage fanatics, who, under the name of _Circumcellions_, formed the strength and scandal of the Donatist party.
Driven from their native villages, the Donatist peasants assembled in formidable gangs on the edge of the Getulian desert; and readily exchanged the habits of labor for a life of idleness and rapine, which was consecrated by the name of religion, and faintly condemned by the doctors of the sect.
Her jurisdiction, wealth, and immunites, perhaps the most essential part of episcopal religion, were restored and amplified with a liberal hand; the Arian worship was suppressed; the Donatist meetings were proscribed; 25 and the synod of Carthage, by the voice of two hundred and seventeen bishops, 26 applauded the just measure of pious retaliation.
The honors and estates of the church were attributed to his suffragan bishops, and it was not without difficulty, that Constantine was satisfied with inflicting the punishment of exile on the principal leaders of the Donatist faction.