Opposed to or against a synod; resisting church councils or assemblies that make religious decisions.
From anti- (against) + synod (from Greek synodos, 'meeting' or 'assembly,' from syn- 'together' + hodos 'way'). This rare term appears in historical religious texts.
Early Christian antisynod figures feared that church councils were replacing biblical authority with political compromise—ironically, some of those councils (like Nicaea) ended up defining Christianity for 1,600+ years, suggesting their critics were both right and wrong.
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