Hontheim, a German Catholic theologian, born at Trèves; distinguished for his bold assertion and subsequent retractation of a doctrine called Febronianism, from the nom de plume Febronius which he assumed, tending to the disparagement of the Papal authority in the Church (1701‒1790).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Honorius, Flavius * Honthorst, Gerard van