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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Novatian

· No·va·tian · IPA
01 n. One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that s…
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    One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.(Eccl. Hist.)