Definition of: sublapsarian

(sub′lap·sâr′ē·ən) noun
A believer in the predestinarian view held by moderate Calvinists that God foresaw the fall of man and decreed to save some by election.
—adjective Relating to the sublapsarians or to their tenets. [<NL sublapsarius <L sub- consequent upon, under + lapsus a fall]
—sub′·lap·sar′i·an·ism noun