a. [f. L. Apollināri-s of Apollo; also a proper name + -AN.]
A. adj. 1. Sacred to or in honor of Apollo.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., Apollinarian Games, in Roman antiquity, were instituted in the year of Rome 542.
2. Of or pertaining to Apollinaris of Laodicea, a noted heretic of the 4th c., who held peculiar opinions on the Incarnation.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1864), 281. The Apollinarian heresy.
B. sb. An adherent of the opinions of Apollinaris.
1586. T. Rogers, 39 Art. (1607), 44. Some will have a quaternity of persons, not a Trinity … So … the Apollinarians did hold.
1852. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss., 191. Collier … was … in his religious … speculations … an Apollinarian.
