a. [ad. eccl. Gr. θεανδρικός, f. θέανδρος god-man (f. θεός god + ἀνήρ man): see -IC.] Of or pertaining to both God and man; partaking of both the human and the divine.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus ii. 14. It was … neither meerely diuine, nor meerely humane, but (as Diuines speake) theandrike.
1828. E. Irving, Sermons, I. 140 + p. lxix. A class of heretics … asserting, that there was only one operation, Theandric or Godmanly.
1843. J. B. Robertson, trans. Möhler’s Symbolik, iii. § 11 (ed. 3), 83. So that this regeneration constitutes one theandric work.
So † Theandrical a. Obs. [see -ICAL].
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 36. To performe them as God man, is appropriate to Christ…. As ascribed unto him, they are, say Divines; Theandrical, that is, divinely humane.
1693. Owen, Holy Spirit as Comforter, i. Wks. 1855, IV. 358. He who worketh them [his mediatory operations] is God, and He worketh them all as God-man; whence they are theandrical.
1850. F. W. Faber, St. Philip Neri, i. 12–3. St. Philip did in a very remarkable way image that double life of Viator and Comprehensor which in its reality could belong alone to the theandrical existence of the Incarnate Word.
