Of or pertaining to Desiderius Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum omne (his authoritative revision of the Bible’s New Testament [five eds., 1516–1535]), its text, or its varia lectio.
Origin
From the Latin Erasmīnus, from Erasmus + -īnus; equivalent to Erasmus + -ine.
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