单词 | kirkified |
释义 | kirkifiedadj. rare. Imbued with the principles of the Kirk or Church of Scotland. ΚΠ 1661 R. L'Estrange Relaps'd Apostate 6 Your Kirkify'd Reformers;..that made such Conscience of a Ceremony. 1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine Warr (ed. 2) 472 The Scots are busie in purging their Army of all Officers who were any way concerned in Hamilton's Engagement, and were not throughly Kirkified. 1941 F. G. Scott Let. 7 Sept. in M. Lindsay F. G. Scott & Sc. Renaissance (1980) 111 And Scotland requires a very thorough overhauling too—a reorientation in its literature—a clean sweep of all its puritanical, Pharisaic, Sabbatarian, kirkified, douce, commonsense views of life. 1978 A. Bold G. M. Brown 87 He stands for all the repressive, naysaying, kirkified, anti-papist doctrines that Brown dislikes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1661 |
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