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Port-Royal|pɔətˈrɔɪəl|
The name of a convent near Versailles (Port-Royal des Champs) which in the 17th c. became the home of a lay community celebrated for its connexion with Jansenism and its educational work.
1692Norris Curs. Refl. Ess. Hum. Und. 65 A sort of men whose Talent was never known to lie much towards Philosophy, will needs turn a Conventicle into a Port Royal. 1714Addison Spect. No. 562 ⁋3 The Gentlemen of Port-Royal,..were more eminent for their Learning and their Humility than any other in France. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., We say..the Greek and Latin methods of Port-royal, which are grammars of that language. 1864Bowen Logic ii. 39 The excellent ‘Art of Thinking’, which commonly passes under the name of the ‘Port-Royal Logic’. 1883Chambers' Encycl. VII. 693/1 The establishment of a school, for which they prepared the well-known educational books known under the name of Port Royal, the Greek and Latin Grammars, General Grammar, Geometry, etc.
Hence Port-ˈRoyalist, a member or adherent of the community of Port-Royal des Champs.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Port-royal, All that adhered to that party, took the name of Port-royalists. 1844Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. viii. (1876) 194 Why so impatient to baptize them Essenes, or Port-Royalists, or Shakers, or by any other known and effete name? 1864Bowen Logic xiii. 450 ‘We employ reason’, said the Port-Royalist logician, ‘as an instrument for acquiring the sciences, whereas we ought to use the sciences as a means of perfecting our reason. |