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Schwenkfeldian, n. and a.|ʃwɛŋkˈfɛldɪən| Also 6 Zuenk-, Swenk-, Suengfeldian, Schuenkfildian. [f. the name Schwenkfeld + -ian.] a. n. One of a sect founded by Caspar Schwenkfeld, a Silesian Protestant mystic (1490–1561). b. adj. Belonging to this sect.
1562tr. Jewel's Apol. 19 b, Certen newe sectes..as Anabaptistes,..Zuenkfeldians. 1564Harding Answ. Jewel's Challenge xv. 154 The Swenkfeldians. 1587T. Rogers Eng. Creed ii. 41 Who wil not vse the Sacraments at al, but contemne them, as the Schuenkfildians. 1876R. Barclay Inner Life Relig. Soc. 243 In 1734, forty Schwenkfeldian families travelled to England, and finally emigrated to Pennsylvania. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 463/2 Schwenkfeld left behind him a sect (who were called subsequently by others Schwenkfeldians, but who called themselves ‘Confessors of the Glory of Christ’). Hence Schwenkfeldianism.
1579St. Papers, Foreign 1579–80, 81 Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Suengfeldianism and the like damnable heresies. |