NICAEA

Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea

(noun) the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea

(noun) the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

Nicaea

(noun) an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

28 March 2024

HUDDLED

(adjective) crowded or massed together; “give me...your huddled masses”; “the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind”


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Coffee Trivia

Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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