Definition of "irenicon" [‖I•ren•i•con]

• A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church. (noun)
• The deacon's litany or great synapte at the beginning of the liturgy of the Orthodox Church. (noun)

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• "Then, training up a band of disciples, he sent them forth proclaiming the new irenicon."
• "The opinions frankly expressed as to theology, metaphysics, and many established orthodoxies; its conclusion, glowing in every page, that metaphysics, as Danton said of the Revolution, was devouring its own children, and led to self-annihilation; its proclamation of Comte as the legitimate issue of all previous philosophy and positive philosophy as its ultimate _irenicon_ -- all this, one might think, would have condemned such a book from its birth."
• "As it was, it remained the half - uttered _irenicon_ of a few speculative spirits."