a. [ad. L. Ephesīnus, f. Ephesus.] Of or pertaining to Ephesus; chiefly Eccl. with reference to the Third General Council, held there A.D. 431, or to certain liturgical uses supposed to have emanated from Ephesus.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 188. The woordes of the Epistle of the Ephesine Counsell vnto Nestorius, be these: [etc.].
1664. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 339. The Ephesine temple.
1839. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., xi. (1847), 109. The Ephesine fathers had determined the Cyprian church to be independent of the bishop of Antioch.
1850. C. Wordsworth, Theoph. Angl., 166. What is the tenor of the Ephesine Canon?
1882–3. A. F. Mitchell, in Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1236. The Scottish fragment in the Book of Deer, the Irish fragments … of distinctly Ephesine character.
