first council of nicaea

1. 1.

   the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

   SynonymsNicaea

   Broaderecumenical council

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What does first council of nicaea mean?

first council of nicaea means "the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism".

What is another word for first council of nicaea?

Close synonyms include Nicaea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first council of nicaea a common word?

first council of nicaea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.