in church-history, a Christian sect, followers of Arius *. Their principles, according to Spanheim, were, That Christ is only called God by way of title; that he is less than the Father, who alone is eternal, and without beginning; that he is a creature, having had a beginning of existence, and having no being before the beginning of all things: hence he was made God, and the Son of God by adoption, not by nature: that the Word was also subject to change; that the Father created all things by him as an instrument; and that he was the most excellent of all creatures: that the essence of the Father was different from the essence of the Son, neither was he co-equal, nor co-substantial, with the Father: that the Holy Ghost was not God, but the creature of the Son, inferior in dignity to the Father and Son, and co-worker in the creation.—In their doxology, the Arians ascribed Glory to the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Ghost.