Webster's 1828 Dictionary
APOLLINARIAN
a.[From Apollo. ] The Apollinarian games, in Roman antiquity, were celebrated in honor of Apollo; instituted A.R. 542 after the battle of Cannae. They were merely scenical, with exhibitions of music, dances and various mountebank tricks.
APOLLINARIANS
in Church history, a sect, deriving their name from Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, in the 4th Century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ; maintaining that his body was endowed with a sensitive, and not with a rational soul; and that the divine nature supplied the place of the intellectual principle in man. Apollo-Belvidere, an ancient statue of the first class in excellence.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
APOLLINARIAN
A *pol `li *na "ri *an, a. Etym: [L. Apollinaris, fr. Apollo. ] (Rom. Antiq.)
Defn: In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.
APOLLINARIAN
A *pol `li *na "ri *an, n. (Eccl. Hist. )
Defn: A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
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