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ANOMOEANS

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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, ἀναγραφές, different, similar: For the pure Arians asserted, that the Son was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, 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 consubstantiality of the Word. The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomoeans in the council of Seleucia; and the Anomoeans in their turn condemned the Semi-Arians in the councils of Constantinople and Antioch, erasing the word ἀναγραφές, like, out of the Formula of Rimini and that of Constantinople.