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Colossian

[kuh-losh-uhn]

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Colossae.

  2. one of the Christians of Colossae, to whom Paul addressed one of his Epistles.



adjective

  1. of or relating to Colossae or its inhabitants.

Colossian

/ əˈɒʃə /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Colossae

  2. New Testament any of the Christians of Colossae to whom St Paul's Epistle was addressed

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Colossian1

< Latin Coloss ( ae ) (< Greek DZDzî ) + -ian
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Example Sentences

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He belonged to a Christian named Philemon, a member of the Colossian Church.

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He then returned to the brief Colossian writing of St Paul, and worked it up, with his own Ephesian composition lying before him, into our existing epistle to the Colossians.

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What a strange new dialect it must have sounded to the slave-owners in the Colossian Church!

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Recent expositors have sufficiently proved that there was a Judaic element in the Colossian heresy.

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In the letter to the Colossian Church, he mentions a letter to the church at Laodicea, a city near to Colosse.

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