ANOMOEANS, in ecclesiastical history, the name by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth century, in contradistinction to the Semi-Arians. The word is formed from the Greek, αναμοεις, different, dis-similar: For the pure Arians asserted, that the Son
was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, Aromo-
that of the Father: whereas the Semi-Arians acknowledge that they denied, with the pure Arians, the confubstantiality of the Word. The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomœans in the council of Seleucia; and the Anomœans in their turn condemned the Semi-Arians in the councils of Constantinople and Antioch, erasing the word ομοιος, like, out of the Formula of Rimini and that of Constantinople.