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Uniate

{

U′ni-at

,

U′ni-ate

, }
Noun.
(Eccl.)
A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.

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Uniate

Uniate

See also: uniate

English

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Adjective

Uniate (not comparable) (sometimes pejorative)

  1. Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church
    • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Uniate.
  2. Of or pertaining to Uniates
    • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Uniate.

Noun

Uniate (plural Uniates) (sometimes pejorative)

  1. A member of a Uniate Church
    • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Uniate.

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References

  • Uniate” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015.
  • Uniate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • Bowker, John (2000), Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192800947, published 2003:'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
  • Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192802903, published 2009, pages 1669–1670:'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”
  • "Uniate" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

uniate

uniate

See also: Uniate

Italian

Adjective

uniate m, f (masculine and feminine plural uniati)

  1. Uniate

Verb

uniate

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive of unire