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Webster 1913 Edition
Infralapsarian
Inˊfra-lap-sa′ri-an
,Noun.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; – opposed to
Supralapsarian
. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God’s original purpose in regard to men. Inˊfra-lap-sa′ri-an
,Adj.
(Theol.)
Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.