Restitutionistn.adj.

1786 I. Crouch Serm. on Eternity of Future Punishments 10 Restitutionists..have sometimes been so sensible of the weight of this negative argument that they have added to the Popish doctrine of purgatory that of prayers for the dead.

1797 J. Boucher View Causes Amer. Revol. vi. 261 Those who, during their connexion with Great Britain, were contented to be called Dissenters or Independents, are now pretty generally become, or are becoming, either Universal Restitutionists, Arians or Socinians.

1827 E. Ferriss Plain Restitutionist Pref. 7 It is not expected that all the ideas conveyed in this system of doctrine will be readily approbated, either by the Universalists or by all the Restitutionists, and much less by the limitarians.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 242 The more pretentious Restitutionists of Massachusetts believe in an immediate return of all things to their original form and purity.

1913 J. Orr Hist. & Lit. Early Church ix. 122 Origen is the first pronounced restitutionist in the Church.

1976 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 44 74 For the Relational Restitutionists, mankind's tragic and fatal moral estrangement from God is dealt with victoriously in the sinner's redemption through the experience of conversion.

1992 S. Boyd Pilgram Marpeck 169 Marpeck..drew eclectically from a number of sources... magisterial reformers..apocalyptic restitutionists..and itinerant Anabaptist preachers.

1825 W. B. Stevenson Hist. Narr. Resid. S. Amer. I. x. 204 Restitution was the money which penitents delivered to their confessors, being the amount of what they believed they had defrauded the crown, by smuggling, or other unlawful practices. The name of the restitutionist was kept a profound secret.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Oct. 1/1 The Restitutionists of the Chamberlain school and the Rights of Property men who swear by Lord Hartington.

1999 Independent on Sunday 21 Nov. i. 17/6 The truth is that, as even Lord Byron (the first British restitutionist) could see, the Elgin Marbles as works of art look every bit as ‘poetical’ in London as in Athens.

1854 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. July 176 Those men most opposed to Restitutionist doctrines are the least free from the danger of falling into modes of thought very adverse to the ordinary creeds.

1909 Catholic Encycl. V. 533/2 The restitutionist view, which in its Origenist form was condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 543.., is the cardinal dogma of modern Universalism.

1979 F. H. Littell in F. Forrester Church & T. George Continuity & Discontinuity in Church Hist. 22 Protestantism of restitutionist origins.

1942 J. Hanc Tornado across Eastern Europe 101 The real danger lay in the possibility of the restitutionist powers resorting to force.

1977 Ethics 87 300 This overstates the restitutionist claim.

2001 C. G. Brunk in M. L. Hadley Restorative Justice i. 55 It has a socially much richer view of what is involved in compensation for victims of punishment than does the libertarian restitutionist view.