a. [f. as prec. + -INE1.] Of, belonging to, or having the character of, the apostle John. (In quot. 1874, Of or pertaining to John the Baptist.)
1861. Nat. Rev., Oct., 434. The Johannine ‘Word made flesh,’ however, involves no miraculous conception, or birth from a Virgin.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., i. § 2. 18. To imitate the mission of the Baptist, to repeat his work … a Johannine Christianity.
1888. Mrs. H. Ward, R. Elsmere, 305. On … the Johannine authorship of the Fourth Gospel.
1894. ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Bonnie Brier Bush, A Highland Mystic, i. 64. Johannine men are subject to sudden flashes of anger, and Donald blazed.
