a. (and sb.) [f. L. Augustīn-us (see prec.) + -IAN.]
1. Of or pertaining to St. Augustine or his doctrines, the prominent tenets of which were immediate efficacy of grace and absolute predestination. sb. An adherent of these doctrines.
1674. Hickman, Hist. Quinquart., 36. But what was … become of the Augustinian spirit?
1851. J. Torrey, Neander’s Ch. Hist. (Bohn), IV. 379. The Augustinian doctrine of election.
1860. J. Gardner, Faiths of World, 263. This notion of human freedom was denied by the Augustinians.
2. Belonging to (sb. one of) the order of Augustines.
1602. W. Watson, Decacorden, 75. Dominicans, Augustinians, and other poore religious Friers.
1875. T. Lindsay, in Sund. Mag., June, 589. The Augustinian monks in Brussels.
1882. Athenæum, 3 June, 692/3. A house of Augustinian canons.
3. Adhering to (sb. an adherent of) Augustine the Bohemian.
1645. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1647), 30. Augustinians … affirme the entrance into Paradice to have been shut up untill Augustine the Bohemian opened it for … those that were of his sect.
Augustinianess a female disciple of St. Augustine. Augustinianism, Augustinism, the doctrines held by him and his followers.
1853. Faber, All for Jesus, 140. Veronica the Augustinianess.
1830. Mackintosh, Eth. Philos. (1867), 356. The Calvinism, or rather Augustinianism, of Aquinas.
1883. Athenæum, 3 Feb., 148/3. [In] the eighteenth epistle … Augustinism is directly opposed.
