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Doctrinarian, n. and a.|dɒktrɪˈnɛərɪən| [f. L. type *doctrīnāri-us (doctrinaire) + -an.] A. n. †1. pl. The Brethren of Christian Doctrine, or Christian Brothers (F. doctrinaires), a lay order instituted at Rheims in 1680 by J. B. de la Salle, to teach gratuitously the principles of religion and the elements of primary instruction. Obs.
1747Gentl. Mag. 570 Other amphibious kinds, which are neither Regulars nor Seculars, as Jesuits, Oratorians, Doctrinarians, Lazarists. 1794A. Barruel Hist. Clergy Fr. Rev. (1795) 161 [He] had been educated in a secular congregation by the Doctrinarians. 2. = doctrinaire n.
1836J. H. Newman Discuss. & Argts. (1872) 19 Protestantism is embodied in a system; so is Popery: but when a man takes up this Via Media, he is a mere doctrinarian—he is wasting his efforts in delineating an invisible phantom. 1840T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. LX. 164 England has its sect of doctrinarians as well as France. B. adj. = doctrinaire a., doctrinary.
1878E. Jenkins Haverholme 101 A stiff and doctrinarian politician of the Whig school. Hence doctriˈnarianism, doctrinairism.
1877D. M. Wallace Russia v. 82 The latest products of French doctrinarianism. |