Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Macedonians

A religious sect, so named from Macedonius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the fourth century. They denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and that the essence of the Son is the same in kind with that of the Father.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Macedonicus
Macedonian Madman
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