a. and sb. [f. proper name Cocceius.] Of or pertaining to the opinion of, or a follower of, John Cocceius, professor of divinity at Leyden (where he died 1669); he held that the whole Old Testament history was a foreshadowing of the history of Christ and his church. Hence Cocceianism.
1685. R. Hamilton, Lett., in Faithful Contendings (1781), 204. Mr. Brackel was an opposer of the Cocceians.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xii. What think ye o’ … Woodsetter? He ’s, I doubt, a Cocceian.
1860. Trench, Synon. N. T., Ser. I. (ed. 5), 137. Those who at that time opposed the Cocceian scheme.
1886. Farrar, Hist. Interpr., vii. 386. Cocceianism became proverbial for artificiality.
