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Recordite, n. (and a.) Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈrɛkɔːdaɪt|
[f. the name of the Record newspaper + -ite1.]
One who subscribes to views represented by the evangelical Church of England newspaper, the Record (1828–1949). Also attrib. or as adj.
1853W. J. Conybeare in Edin. Rev. XCVIII. 284 This exaggeration of Evangelicanism, sometimes called the Puritan, sometimes, from its chief organ, the Recordite party, we shall now endeavour to describe. Ibid., Thus from justification by faith the Recordite infers the worthlessness of morality. 1875F. Arnold Our Bishops & Deans I. i. 11 We suspect we may supply the ellipse by the words ‘Protestants’ or ‘Recordites’. 1965W. R. Ward Victorian Oxford x. 224 Gladstone arranged with Vice-Chancellor Jeune to delay the by-election till the last possible moment, but his legal adviser Phillimore was still on tenterhooks that ‘some Recordite would be put up to poll two or three votes and claim to be returned before a committee’. |