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Congreˈgationist [f. as prec. + -ist.] †1. = congregationalist. Obs.
1659Gauden Slight Healers (1660) 105 Independents, or Congregationists, which seemed to stickle for the interests of people in religious transactions. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Congregationists, Dissenters from the Church of England. 2. A member of a Roman Catholic congregation or lay brotherhood under ecclesiastical direction; also attrib. = congreganist.
1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 435 Imbued with that jesuitism which had crept into all the courts of Europe..Skrzynecki was a constant frequenter of the churches..a congregationist in epaulettes. 1882Contemp. Rev. Jan. 93 He..introduced various religious orders and Congregationist Schools. |