Brewer's: Nice

The Council of Nice. The first oecumencial council of the Christian Church, held under Constantine the Great at Nice, or Nicæa, in Asia Minor, to condemn the Arian heresy (325). The seventh oecumenical council was also held at Nice (787).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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