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| Nes·to·ri·an [ ne stáwree ən ] |
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relating to Southwest Asian Christian group: relating to a Southwest Asian Christian denomination that believes that two distinct persons, one divine and the other human, existed in Jesus Christ. This doctrine was declared heresy in ad 431.
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| [15th century. < late Latin Nestorianus, after Nestorius (ad 428-31), patriarch of Constantinople] |
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