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Augustan confessionAugustan Au*gus"tan, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See
August, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to Augustus C[ae]sar or to his times.
2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its
highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called
because the reign of Augustus C[ae]sar was the golden age
of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b.
1638) has been called the Augustan age of French
literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan
age of English literature.
Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of
Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg,
by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the
principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for
separating from the Roman Catholic church. ConfessionalConfessional Con*fes"sion*al, a.
Pertaining to a confession of faith.
Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons
confessing different creeds. Confessional equalityEquality E*qual"i*ty, n.; pl. Equalities. [L. aequalitas,
fr. aequalis equal. See Equal.]
1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in
quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value,
rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in
length or thickness; an equality of rights.
A footing of equality with nobles. --Macaulay.
2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness;
uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
4. (Math.) Exact agreement between two expressions or
magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the
symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same
number and kind of units of measure that x does.
Confessional equality. See under Confessional. Confessional equalityConfessional Con*fes"sion*al, a.
Pertaining to a confession of faith.
Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons
confessing different creeds. Confessionalism
Confessionalism Con*fes"sion*al*ism, n. (Eccl.)
An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full
assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
--Shaff.
Confessionalist
Confessionalist Con*fes"sion*al*ist, n.
A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. [R.]
--Boucher
Confessionary
Confessionary Con*fes"sion*a*ry, n. [LL. confessionarium.]
A confessional. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Confessionary
Confessionary Con*fes"sion*a*ry, a.
Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary
litany.
Confessionist
Confessionist Con*fes"sion*ist, n. [Cf. F. confessioniste.]
One professing a certain faith. --Bp. Montagu.
Meaning of Confessio from wikipedia
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Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line
Middle English poem by John Gower,
which uses the
confession made by an
ageing lover to...
- Look up confession, confess, confessing, or
confessio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
confession is an
acknowledgement of fact by one who would...
- The
Confessio Fraternitatis (
Confessio oder
Bekenntnis der Societät und
Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz), or
simply The
Confessio,
printed in K****el (Germany)...
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Confessio catholica is one of the main
works of
German Orthodox Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard (1582–1637). It s****s to
prove the
evangelical and...
- it
translated into German.: 635 The
First Helvetic Confession (Latin:
Confessio Helvetica prior),
known also as the
Second Confession of Basel, was drawn...
- The
confessio of
Santa Francesca Romana is the
confessio, the
enclosed area
below the altar, of the
Basilica of
Santa Francesca Romana in Rome. It was...
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known as the
Augustan Confession or the
Augustana from its
Latin name,
Confessio Augustana, is the
primary confession of
faith of the
Lutheran Church and...
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marginal notations,
which are a
running analysis of the
contents of the
Confessio Amantis, a 33,000-line
Middle English poem by John Gower.
These have been...
- Peter's was a crypt-like
space under the dome that is
referred to as the "
Confessio". From there,
privileged persons such as
cardinals could descend in order...
- Reformation.: 185 The name
Belgic Confession follows the 17th-century
Latin Confessio Belgica.
Belgica referred to the
whole of the Low Countries, both north...
