ANOMEANS

ANOMEANS, ANOMOEANS, or ANOMIANS, ANOMOEL, or ANOMIANI, a Greek Word, composed of the privative α and ὅμοιος, similar, resembling; q.d. different, dissimilar. In the fourth Century, this was the Name by which the pure Arians were distinguished; in regard they not only denied the Consubstantiality of the Word but even asserted that He was of a Nature different from that of the Father: In Contradistinction to the Semi-Arians, who indeed denied the Consubstantiality of the Word but owned at the same time, that He was like the Father.
See ARIAN, and SEMI ARIAN.
The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomeans in the Council of Seleucia, and the Anomeans condemned the Semi-Arians in their turn, in the Councils of Constantinople and Antioch; erasing the word ὅμοιος out of the Formula of Rimini, and that of Eon anna and protesting that the Word had not only a different Substance, but also a Will different from that of the Father.
Whence they were to be called Anomoeans. See HOMOOUSIA, etc.

ANOMEANS