ANOMOEANS, in ecclesiastical history, the name by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth century, in contradiction to the Semi-Arians. The word is formed from the Greek, anomos, different, dissimilar: For the pure Arians asserted, that the Son was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, that
Anomorphoboidia that of the Father: whereas the Semi-Arians acknowledged a likeness of nature in the Son; at the same time that they denied, with the pure Arians, the substantiality of the World.—The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomorphans in the council of Seleucia; and the Anomorphans in their turn condemned the Semi-Arians in the councils of Constantinople and Antioch, erasing the word sons, like, out of the Formula of Rimini and that of Constantinople.