Filioque

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Filioque \Fil`i*o"que\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
     The Latin for, "and from the Son," equivalent to et filio,
     inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the
     clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father)
     of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which
     makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son


     as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not
     admitted by the Eastern Church).
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]