单词 | presbyterianizing |
释义 | Presbyterianizingadj. That takes on or produces Presbyterian characteristics or attributes. ΚΠ 1859 F. D. Huntington Celebration of Two Hundredth Anniv. of Settlement of Hadley, Mass. 19 The Founders of Hadley were..as opposed to the Half-way baptismal Covenant, on the one hand, and to Presbyterianizing tendencies on the other. c1878 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1897) IV. xiii. 315 Our Bishops seem paralyzed by our Presbyterianizing Archbishop of Canterbury. 1959 William & Mary Q. 16 290 His most notable achievement..was to defend traditional Congregationalism against the inroads of a ‘presbyterianizing’ way. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 38 Presbyterianizing churches everywhere failed to find the full complement of lay elders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1859 |
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