Ammonian (2)

[From the philosopher mentioned in the def.] Relating to Ammonius Saccas, who set up a school at Alexandria in the latter part of the second century, and founded the Neo-Platonic philosophy. maintained that all religions taught e entially the same truths, and required only to be rightly interpreted completely to harmonise. To produce the wished-for agreement he allegorised away whatever was distinctive in the several systems. Origen adopted his views. ăm-mō-ni-ō-. In compos. ammonium; as ammonio-magnesian, ammonio- palladous = ammonium in combination with magnesium, ammonia in combination with palladium.