Nicene

['naisi:n;,nai'si:n]

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325.

Typed by Hiram

Definition

adj. pertaining to the town of Nice or NicéŽ in Bithynia Asia Minor where an ecumenical council was held in 325 for the purpose of defining the questions raised in the Arian controversy—it promulgated the Nicene Creed. A second council the seventh general council held here in 787 condemned the Iconoclasts.

Typist: Remington