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Nicaea

/nai'si:ә/

📖 中文释义

  1. 尼西亚(小亚细亚西北部古城)
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
  2. n the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
  3. n the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism