A-pŏl/li-nā/ri-an1, a.
a. [Lat. Apollinaris, from Apollo.] (Rom. Antiq.) Pertaining to certain scenical games in honor of Apollo, instituted A. R. 542, after the battle of Cannæ.
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Apollinarian
A-pŏl'li-nā'ri-an2, n.
n. [L. Lat. Apollinariaci, Apollinaristæ, Fr. Apollinaristes.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect deriving their name from Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea, in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ, maintaining that his body was endowed with a sensitive, but not with a rational soul, and that the divine nature supplied the place of the intellectual principle in man.