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What does Arminius mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) A chieftain of the Cherusci (an ancient Germanic tribe) who defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
  2. Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian and founder of Arminianism.
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After the devastating defeat of Varus by the Germanic forces led by Arminius in 9 A. D, the river Rhine became the eastern frontier of the Roman empire.
Jacobus Arminius was a student of Theodore Beza at the Theological University of Geneva.
Arminius Tooling offers profile sanding tools for decorative grooves, profiled edges, panel raising, etc.
As I learned from the researches of my friend Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man.
The interpretation of scripture was polarized between the selective literalism of Calvinism and the more liberal application found within the teachings of Arminius.
Those who opposed the Remonstrants were the Gomarists, the followers of Franciscus Gomarus, a Dutch theologian who upheld a rigid Calvinism and had carried on a theological controversy with Arminius.

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