Uniat

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ăt', yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'; IPA^(key): /ˈyu.niˌæt/, /ˈyu.niˌɪt/
• Rhymes: -æt, -ɪt
• Hyphenation: U‧ni‧at

Adjective

Uniat (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Uniate [from 19th c.]
   • 1818, [From the two Burjat Nobles to their Prince], “Russia”, in Report - British and Foreign Bible Society, volume 15, London: Bible House, OCLC 756272064, page 192:

     The Greek Uniat Archbishop at Polotzki Johannes Krasszofsky has sent 1970 rubles in bank assignments

   • 1850, Neale, John M., A History of the Holy Eastern Church, volume 1, London [u.a.]: Masters, OCLC 795340215, page 56:

     temporal advantages were held out to the Uniat Greeks: no change was at first enforced

Noun

Uniat (plural Uniats)

1. Alternative spelling of Uniate
   • 1926, Constance Garnett, transl., “A terrible revenge”, in Rudy Panko, editor, Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (The collected works of Nickolay Gogol), New York: A. A. Knopf, translation of Страшная месть by Nicolai Gogol, OCLC 578361835:

     They are worse than the Uniats: they never look into the church of God

Synonyms

• Eastern Catholic
• Greek Catholic

Hypernyms

• Catholic (“a member of a Catholic church”)

Coordinate terms

• Orthodox (“a member of an Orthodox church”)

References

• “Uniat” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Uniat in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "Uniat" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

Anagrams

• Autin, Ituna, Utian, tui na, tuina