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syncretist

syncretist


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Syncretist  \Syn"cre*tist\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  syncr['e]tiste.] 
  One  who  attempts  to  unite  principles  or  parties  which  are 
  irreconcilably  at  variance;  specifically  (Eccl.  Hist.),  an 
  adherent  of  George  Calixtus  and  other  Germans  of  the 
  seventeenth  century,  who  sought  to  unite  or  reconcile  the 
  Protestant  sects  with  each  other  and  with  the  Roman 
  Catholics,  and  thus  occasioned  a  long  and  violent  controversy 
  in  the  Lutheran  church.