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sacramentarian, a. and n.|sækrəmənˈtɛərɪən|
[f. mod.L. sacrāmentāri-us sacramentary + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Hist. Relating to the views held by the ‘Sacramentarians’ in regard to the Eucharist (see B. 1).
1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. ii. viii. 53 As for the Sacramentarian quarrels, Lord, how bitter have they beene. 1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 50 The Sacramentarian Controversie. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. i. §24 He boasts that Luther predicted the deaths of Zwingle, Carlostadt, and Œcolampadius as the punishment of their sacramentarian hypothesis. 1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. 287 Ernesti seems to consider the [Syrian] school, in modern language, Sacramentarian.
2. gen. Relating to the sacraments (or to ‘high’ doctrine in regard to them).
1865Lecky Ration. I. 287 Among the Protestants the same tendency is displayed with equal force in the rapid destruction of what is termed the sacramentarian principle. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 85 He [Laud] does not seem to have gone much upon sacramentarian symbolism.
B. n.
1. Hist. A name given by Luther to those Protestant theologians (esp. Zwingli and Œcolampadius) who maintained that it is merely in a ‘sacramental’ or metaphorical sense (‘sacramentaliter sive µετωνυµικῶς’, Zwingli) that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are called the body and blood of Christ. Hence used in the 16th c. (by opponents) as a general name for all deniers of the doctrine of the Real Presence.
1535in Froude Hist. Eng. (1856) II. ix. 403 The anabaptists and sacramentarians. 1537in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. III. 128 That the Kyng his Hyghtnes and Cownsell to be become Sacramentarians. 1624Bedell Lett. ii. 47 The vehement speeches of Luther and some of his followers against those whom they call the Sacramentarians. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. ix. 194 Cranmer, whilst he was a Lutheran, consented to the burning of John Lambert and Ann Askew..; and when he was a sacramentarian he was the cause of the death of Joan Bocher, an Arian. 1903Cambr. Mod. Hist. II. x. 333 Zwingli..made this Sacrament purely symbolical... In this he was followed by the later Sacramentarians.
2. Hist. A nickname given to the early Methodists at Oxford. (See quot. 1733.)
1732J. Wesley Let. 18 Oct. (1931) I. 130 Some of the men of wit in Christ Church..made a pretty many reflections upon the Sacramentarians, as they were pleased to call us. 1733Oxf. Methodists 7 The young Gentlemen..thought it requisite to Communicate as often as they had Opportunity; which at Oxford is once a Week; and hence their Ill-willers gave them the Name of Sacramentarians. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 623/2 To the name of Methodists two others were quickly added, viz. those of Sacramentarians and the Godly club.
3. One who holds ‘high’ doctrine as to the sacraments.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋214 The transubstantial migration of the grapy juice of the papall Sacramentarians. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. l. 10 Ye Ritualists, ye Sacramentarians. |