SEMI-ARIAN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Semi-Arian

... encourage irregularities. At all events we hear little more of it, when the agitation in favour of comprehension had ceased. There was often a lax observance of the rubrics;[1135] but there appear to be no complaints of any serious omissions, until three or four of the Arian and semi-Arian clergy ventured, not only to leave out the Athanasian Creed, but to alter the doxologies,[1136] and to pass over the second and third petitions of ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton