Also 6–8 -it. [ad. Gr. τριθεἶτης, late L. tritheīta (Isidore), f. τρι- three + θεός god; cf. F. trithéite.] = TRITHEIST.
1585–7. T. Rogers, 39 Art., v. (1633), 24. The Tritheites; which affirme the holy Ghost to be inferiour vnto the Father.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. xlii. § 13. The blasphemies of Arrians, Samosatenians, Tritheits, Eutychians, and Macedonians.
1691. W. Nicholls, Answ. Naked Gospel, 98. Gregorius Paulus,… was first a Tritheite, and afterwards an Unitarian.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. VI. v. 252. He [Servetus] crudely affirms, that they who distinguish three Persons in the Godhead, are Tritheites who admit of three Gods.
attrib. 1708. H. Dodwell, Nat. Mort. Hum. Souls, 42. The Author of the Tritheit Heresy, Johannes Philoponus.
1887. C. J. Ball, in Dict. Chr. Biog., IV. 319/1. An approach to the Tritheite standpoint.
