Iconian, a. and n.
(aɪˈkəʊnɪən)
[-an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Iconium (mod. Konya), a town in southern Asia Minor where St. Paul preached, or to the church established there (Acts xiii. 5, xiv. 1–7). B. n. A native or inhabitant of Iconium.
| 1899 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Aug. 112 There were strife and wrangling and jealousy between the Antiochean Church and the Iconian Church about precedence and comparative dignity. 1911 ― First Christ. Cent. xxv. 168 St. Paul addressed the Iconian audiences in Greek. Ibid. 171 The Iconians clung to their Phrygian character as opposed to the Lycaonian. |