Petrine

adj
/ˈpiːtɹaɪn/UK/ˈpiˌtɹaɪn/US

Etymology

From Latin Petrus + -ine.

  1. derived from Petrus + -ine

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.

    • the Petrine Epistles
    • ...the statement of Apost. Const. vi. 8, that his ordination was Pauline, rather than Petrine, according to the competing traditions of St. Epiphanus and Rufinus, in which case he is the particular link in the Pauline succession.
    • And thus, in this connection, is intruded upon us the narrative in the Petrine Gospel, which afterwards became famous, and according to which the Cross was borne to heaven with Christ at the Ascension.

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