单词 | romanizer |
释义 | Romanizern. 1. A person who favours or adopts Roman Catholic practices, doctrines, etc.; (also in the pre-Reformation Church) a supporter of the influence of Rome in Church affairs. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > favourer of Romanizer1637 1637 W. Prynne Quench-coale 159 The great Cathedrall Church of Rome itselfe, (whence these Romanizers would seeme to take their paterne). 1681 New Presbiterian Ballad 1 They must be Romanizers too, What e'r they do or say And Zealous wishers to the Pope The clean contrary way. 1839 Brit. Critic Apr. 450 Even the Standard and Morning Herald newspapers..have arrayed themselves in their strength against the Romanizers. 1847 W. F. Hook Eccl. Biogr. III. 545 Wilfred, abbot of Ripon, was..appointed to the bishopric; he was a Romanizer. 1852 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. 149 I had opposed warmly the system of confession, and the whole system of the Romanizers. 1930 E. Wingfield-Stratford Those Earnest Victorians xvii. 201 The principal fury of the Evangelicals was reserved for what they regarded as Romanisers within the Anglican fold. 1998 B. Christophers Positioning the Missionary vi. 133 His opposition to cultic practices centred on the Virgin distinguished him from true Anglican Romanizers. 2. A person who seeks to bring someone or something under the influence or authority of ancient Rome, or who follows or imitates Roman custom or practice; (also) a person who advocates or accepts the principles of Roman law. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > one who advocates Roman law Romanizer1801 1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Oct. 115 In indulging themselves with society among their conquered Britons, and in thus becoming..the civilizers, the refiners, the Romanizers, of their subjects. 1893 Polit. Sci. Q. 8 659 The application by the Romanizers of the standards of the Institutes made short work of the distinctions between the various forms of dependent status. 1918 Classical Weekly 14 Oct. 12/1 The extension of these privileges..by Caesar to more than thirty communities mark him as the first great romanizer of Spain. 1922 W. Senior Doctors' Commons & Old Court Admiralty i. 9 One effect of the introduction of Roman elements..would naturally be to take the wind out of the sails of the out-and-out Romanisers. 1967 E. Jenkinson in T. A. Dorey Lat. Biogr. i. 6 In a superficial sense..[Cornelius] Nepos was a Romanizer, perhaps because he saw this as a way to help his readers to accept strange customs. 2007 M. Henig in C. Gosden et al. Communities & Connections xxiv. 462 These were the same sorts of people who..were still in evidence as enthusiastic Romanizers in the second half of the first century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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