Neonomiant (neonomian)

and a. [ nomianism. IMG:content-1299.jpg:[blocks in formation] II. a . Relating to the Neonomians. Neonomianismt (nē-ō-nōʻmi-an-izm), n. [ Ne onomian + -ism.] The doctrine that the gospel is a new law, and that faith and a partial 3966 zontal nostrils, and typified by the Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus. This celebrated bird is about 2 feet long, and when adult is white, with black primaries, and rusty-yellowish neck-hackles extending up the occiput; the head is bare, with scanty down on the throat and a few loral feathers; the bill is horn Egyptian Vulture, or Pharaoh's Hen (Neophron percnopterus). brown; the feet are whitish, and the irides reddish. The young are blackish-brown varied with fulvous. The bird is widely distributed in countries bordering the Mediterranean, and thence to Persia, India, and South Africa. One of its many names is rachamah, used by Bruce in 1790, but subsequently applied (in the New Latin form Racama ) to the Angola vulture, Gypohierax an go lens is, which is a very different bird. N. ging in i an us is a second species of the genus, closely resembling the foregoing, found in India; N. monachus and N. pileatus are both African and much = alike, but quite different from the others. neophyte (ne'ō-fit), a. and n. [= F. néophyte Sp. neófito = Pg. neophyto = It. neofito, L. neophytus (in inscriptions also neofitus ), cofitus ), the It is with your young grammatical courtier, as with your neophyte player, a thing usual to be daunted at the first presence or interview. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 4. II. n . 1. A new convert; one newly initiated. Neotoma of Philo, by Gnosticism, and by Christianity. Its leading representative was Plot in us. His views were popularized by Porphyry and modified in the direction of mysticism by Iamb lich us. Considerable sympathy with Neo platonism in its earlier stages was shown by several eminent Christian writers, especially in Alexandria, such as St. Clement, Origen, etc. The last Neo platonic schools were suppre ed in the sixth century.