Nicaea
/nai'si:ә/
📖 中文释义
- 尼西亚(小亚细亚西北部古城)
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
- n the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
- n the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism