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Webster 1913 Edition

(pa̤′lĭ-shan)

Noun.

[Etymol. uncertain.]

(Eccl. Hist.)

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in

Armenia

in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

Paulician ‎(plural Paulicians)

member of the Paulicianism movement

Armenian: պավլիկյան (hy) ‎(pavlikyan), պավղիկյան (hy) ‎(pavłikyan)
Old Armenian: պաւղիկեանք pl ‎(pawłikeankʿ), պաւղիանոսք pl ‎(pawłianoskʿ)