| 单词 | remonstrant | 
| 释义 | remonstrantn.adj. A. n.  1.  Church History. With capital initial. A supporter of the Remonstrance presented to the States of Holland in 1610 (see remonstrance n. 2c); an Arminian. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Arminianism > sects and groups > 			[noun]		 > Dutch Reformed remonstrant1617 remonstrancer1618 Manifestarian1646 methodist1692 1617    F. Johnson Christian Plea (title page)  				The second, touching such Christians, as now are here, commonly called Remonstrants or Arminians. 1618    J. Hales Let. 9 Dec. 28 in  Golden Remains 		(1659)	  				They did the Synod wrong to make this distinction of Contra-Remonstrants and Remonstrants. 1678    R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity  v. ix. 129  				The Remonstrants (as they are commonly called) do generally themselves acknowledge, that without the outward knowledge of Christ there is no Salvation. 1705    T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 22 Nov. 		(O.H.S.)	 I. 93  				He was a feirce Remonstrant. 1736    S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 335  				They were presently suspected..as persons that favoured the Remonstrants. a1819    G. Hill Lect. Divin. 		(1821)	 III. 192  				Grotius favoured the principles of the Remonstrants. 1886    Encycl. Brit. XX. 379/2  				The Remonstrants are now a small body, but respected for their traditions of scholarship and liberal thought. 1923    Harvard Theol. Rev. 16 2  				Even the one Remonstrant who expressed his willingness to accept the drastic conditions laid down by the Synod [of Dort] was not given his seat. 2000    A. Mason in  A. Hastings et al.  Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 41/1  				The Dutch Remonstrants moved, quite quickly, to a wider challenge to orthodoxy, with doubts about Christ's divinity and human depravity.  2.  A person who remonstrates or expresses opposition to something; a remonstrator, a protester; spec. a supporter or presenter of a remonstrance (remonstrance n. 2b). Also (occasionally) figurative. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > 			[noun]		 > protestor reclaimantc1600 remonstrancer1618 protester?1626 remonstrant1641 remonstrator1646 remonstranter1650 protestor1659 Protestant1853 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > 			[noun]		 > one who complains > formal or public remonstrant1641 remonstrator1646 1641    J. Milton Animadversions 5  				Wee had not thought that Legion could have furnisht the Remonstrant with so many brethren. 1672    A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd  i. 144  				I do not like this Remonstrating nor these Remonstrants. 1755    N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 83  				The Remonstrants..concluded to apply to Us, praying that we would please to approve and ratify the said Statute. 1800    S. T. Coleridge tr.  F. Schiller Piccolomini  iv. vii. 176  				Necessity, impetuous remonstrant. 1838    A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 171  				A want..which no government ever will attempt to supply until increasing knowledge..creates an influential body of remonstrants. 1875    W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xiv. 138  				If..the king wished to go to Flanders, the remonstrants were of opinion that they were not bound to serve in that country. 1908    Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 3 69/2  				Two Pans have evidently been quarreling, and one is pulling the other unwillingly away, aided by Eros, who intervenes to strike a blow at the remonstrant. 1935    Times 24 May 12/2  				I hope you will accept me as spokesman for many remonstrants against Dr. T. R. Glover's letter to you. 2007    US States News 		(Nexis)	 21 June  				The Commission heard testimony..—both supporting and opposing the renewal of the liquor permit—from remonstrants, neighborhood residents, local officials and police officers.  B. adj. (chiefly attributive).  1.  Church History. Usually with capital initial. Of or relating to a Remonstrant or Remonstrants (sense  A. 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Arminianism > sects and groups > 			[adjective]		 > Dutch Reformed remonstrant1619 Remonstrantical1619 Manifestarian1646 1619    D. Carleton Let. 14 Jan. 177 in  J. Hales Golden Remains 		(1673)	  				Three Remonstrant Preachers..have renounced their Doctrine. 1673    H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 2  				Whether the Remonstrant or Contra-Remonstrant opinions be most agreeable. 1736    S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 335  				His Excellency..deposed those Magistrates who were of the Remonstrant Persuasion. 1772    J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis To Calvinists p. v  				Giving you a more favourable opinion of the sentiments of your remonstrant brethren. 1840    Penny Cycl. XVII. 376/2  				The wicked and cruel persecutions to which the Remonstrant party were subjected in consequence of the synod of Dort. 1854    Biblical Repertory Oct. 662  				To him belongs the credit of having then received, the Molinist, or what was afterwards called in Holland the Remonstrant doctrine. 1923    Harvard Theol. Rev. 16 2  				The Remonstrant delegates elected from Utrecht found that the members of the Synod were not judges but parties. 1993    Independent 		(Nexis)	 18 July 74  				A Rembrandt portrait of the Remonstrant minister Johannes Uyttenbogaert which Lord Rosebery had sent to Sotheby's.  2.  That remonstrates; protesting; expressing or characterized by disapproval or opposition to something. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > 			[adjective]		 > remonstrating expostulatory1592 expostulating1637 remonstrating1660 deprecatory1704 remonstrant1773 remonstratory1823 expostulative1837 Protestant1844 deprecating1871 expostulant1880 deprecative1884 1773    E. Lloyd Epist. to D. Garrick l. 284  				The pert Demand of the remonstrant Fly. 1847    Ld. J. Russell in  A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce 		(1880)	 I. xi. 459  				I must repeat the observation I made in my letter to the remonstrant Bishops. 1867    A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xviii. 155  				The deep angry remonstrant eyes. 1874    ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch  vii. lxix. 521  				His tenderness towards her..was inevitably interrupted by these outbursts of indignation either ironical or remonstrant. 1879    A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand 		(1961)	 39  				He had..examined the premises with that air of remonstrant anger at its neglected state. 1919    Condor 21 214  				Some English Sparrows..were chirping in remonstrant tones. 2008    Africa News 		(Nexis)	 8 July  				A remonstrant African regional body that sees Zimbabwe as an island of anarchy, barbarism and political ferociousness. Compounds  Remonstrant synod  n. Church History 		 (a) an assembly of Dutch Remonstrant clergy; esp. an assembly in March 1619 preceding the condemnation of the Remonstrants as heretics by the National Synod of Dordrecht in May;		 (b) an assembly formed in May 1830 of Presbyterian ministers, elders, and congregations who seceded from the Synod of Ulster after their Remonstrance (against restrictive legislation which only accepted evangelical and orthodox Trinitarian candidates as future ordinands) was rejected. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Unitarianism > Antitrinitarian sects and groups > 			[noun]		 > remonstrant synod Remonstrant synod1824 1824    J. Nichols Calvinism & Arminianism p. iv  				‘And,’ say the Remonstrant Synod of Utrecht, ‘though St. Augustine, and certain others after him somewhat changed their sentiments in the matter of Predestination, yet they always acknowledged, that Christ died for all men.’ 1839    Penny Cycl. XIII. 25/1  				The synod of Munster and Remonstrant synod, among whom Unitarian opinions are prevalent. 1910    New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. XII. 83  				The presbytery of Antrim separated from the general synod in order to establish worship without subscription to creed. In 1830 the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster was formed on similar principles. 1995    J. Israel Dutch Republic  ii. xx. 462  				The news, in March 1619, of a rival Remonstrant synod, held in secret, at Rotterdam, only added to Counter-Remonstrant impatience. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > 			[noun]		 > protestor reclaimantc1600 remonstrancer1618 protester?1626 remonstrant1641 remonstrator1646 remonstranter1650 protestor1659 Protestant1853 1650    R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. 		(1842)	 III. 110  				If great words would..make them submitt to the commands of our Remonstranters, [etc.]. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Arminianism > sects and groups > 			[adjective]		 > Dutch Reformed remonstrant1619 Remonstrantical1619 Manifestarian1646 1619    W. Balcanqual Let. 26 Mar. 23 in  J. Hales Golden Remains 		(1659)	  				It was answered, that both the consistory and Classis of Camps were altogether Remonstrantical. 1658    A. Burgess Doctr. Orig. Sin  iii. iv. 290  				These Objections and Answers could have no place in the Remonstrantical Analysis and Interpretation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † remonstrantv. Obsolete. rare.   intransitive. To act as a remonstrant (remonstrant n. 2); to remonstrate; to protest against something. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > protest or remonstrate			[verb (intransitive)]		 quarrelc1391 reclaimc1425 to make courtesy (at)1542 protest1550 recontest1611 objurgate1642 obtest1650 remonstrant1654 remonstrate1655 represent1717 protest1870 1654    E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 105*  				They remonstrant against all Acts of Parliament that passe without their Vote. 1830    Jrnl. Senate USA 4 Feb. 119  				A remonstrance from the inhabitants;..severally remonstranting against the repeal of so much of the Post Office laws. 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