单词 | separatist |
释义 | separatistn.adj. A. n. 1. One who advocates ecclesiastical separation; one who belongs to a religious community separated from the Church or from a particular church. a. A member of any of the sects separated from the Church of England. In the 17th cent. (hence in modern use Historical, with capital S) applied chiefly to the Independents and those who agreed with them in rejecting all ecclesiastical authority outside the individual congregation. In later use an occasional hostile designation for Protestant dissenters in general. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person sectator?1541 sectary1558 sectare1563 sectuary1592 disjunctive1596 separator1607 swermer1607 swermerian1607 separatist1608 sectist1612 separate1612 opinionist1613 separistc1616 seeker1617 sectarist1618 sectarian1827 come-outer1840 denominationalist1870 disjunctionist1872 1608 R. Bernard Christian Advert. 21 Disswasions from the way of the Separatists, as they haue principles by themselues, the grounds of their separation, commonly called Brownisme. 1620 Alured in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 176 Some ignorant itching Separatists seek to find..an hole in our coat and church. 1632–3 W. Laud Diary 28 Feb. Wks. (1853) III. 217 Mr. Chancellor of London..brought me word how miserably I was slandered by some separatists. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. vi. 90 The Church of England hath three maine Divisions; The Conformist, the Non-Conformist, and the Separatist. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. vi. 90 The Separist is subdivided too as they say into Separatist and Semi-Separatist. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. To Rdr. sig. B2 The Brownists arrogate to themselves the name of Separatists, which well they may, being separated from their Mother Church, from all the Reformed Churches, and malitiously divided among themselves. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §65 355 Do but observe what a persecuting Spirit, he bestows upon the Church of England, and the Members of it in general: when taken off the Papists, they diverted upon the Separatists. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 317 Between the open invasions of the Romanists on the one hand, and the undermining subtleties of Separatists on the other. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. viii. 413 They [sc. Wesleyan methodists] ought more properly, perhaps, to be called separatists than dissenters. 1843 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 603 The Catholic system lays a ground of sympathy..with the pious separatists of our own country. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 575 Congregations were formed under the direction of separatists. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 88 Every little congregation of separatists was tracked out and broken up. 1883 Congregationalist 829 The Separatists were the true ancestors of modern Congregationalists. b. gen. A schismatic, sectarian; also a member of a congregation not belonging to any recognized denomination. ΚΠ a1645 W. Laud Answer to Ld. Say in Hist. Troubles (1695) 501 The Name Separatist is a common Name to all Hereticks or Schismaticks, that separate for their Opinions sakes, either from the Catholick, or from any particular Orthodox Church. 1709 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels IV. 236 Finding some Reproofs in his First Epistle ineffectual he threatens these Separatists in his Second with the Censures of the Church. 1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 255 To unite the Bohemian Separatists to the Church of Rome. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 109 Of the whole inhabitants [of Scoonie], there are not above 150 separatists from the established church. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 426 A small society of Separatists. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 321 Others were separatists from the religion established around them. 1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown 169 The Relief Separatists, who arose twenty years after the Erskines..arrived at this conviction much sooner than any parties in the Secession. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 999 The estates of Count Wittgenstein, the refuge of all separatists and mystics. c. Applied to those Wesleyan Methodists who in 1795–7 advocated separation from the Church of England. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > Wesleyan > person > advocating separation from Church of England separatist1859 1859 T. P. Bunting Life J. Bunting I. vi. 87 The former class held strictly to Wesley's long and latest declaration, that his Preachers were mere Laymen.., while the Separatists either took the low ground of denying that the mere dispensation of the Sacraments implied any such assumption,..or [etc.]. d. U.S. A member of ‘a communistic religious society (disbanded in 1898) of German Protestant peasants, who separated from the state church of Germany, emigrated, and settled at Zoar, Ohio, in 1817; also known as Zoarites and the Zoar community’ (Webster, 1911). ΚΠ 1875 C. Nordhoff Communistic Societies U.S. 99 The Society of Separatists at Zoar. e. ? Adopted as the designation of a particular sect. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Separatist > [noun] separatist1821 1821 Monthly Repos. Apr. 254/2 House of Commons April 12... Mr. J. Smith presented a petition from a body of Christian people, dissenters from the Protestant Church, residing in London, who were denominated ‘Separatists’. f. A critic who ascribes the Iliad and the Odyssey or any portions of them to separate authors. Cf. separator n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > study of Homeric poems > one who > holding specific theory Wolfian1875 separator1878 separatist1903 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > literary origin of text > specific authorship theory > one who holds Unitarian1850 chorizontes1868 chorizontist1873 Baconian1874 Shakespearean1874 separatist1903 Stratfordian1908 Shakespearite1909 Oxfordian1930 1903 A. Platt Iliad Bk. XVIII p. xiv Even among the ancients..there was a set of people called χωρίζοντες or Separatists, who held that the Iliad and Odyssey were by different authors. 1909 F. M. Stawell Homer & Iliad 281 Lines 670–760 suspected by the Separatists. 1976 W. R. Johnson Darkness Visible 159 If I speak of things Homeric now as a separatist, now as a literal or oral unitarian, [etc.]. 2. a. Often interpreted to mean: One who holds himself apart from others on the ground of superior piety. Hence used to render the etymological meaning of Pharisee. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 59 The Separatists, or Sanctified, as they terme themselves. ?1623 O. Felltham Resolues xx. 61 If I liue vertuously, and with piety, the world will hate me, as a Separatist. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. x. 44 We may English them [sc. the Pharisees] Separatists. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 168 Both these, the present Sadduce, the carnall Atheist, and the present Pharisee, the Separatist, that overvalues himself, and bids us stand farther off. a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden iv. i. 70 in Five New Playes (1659) A great Separatist that is now writing a book against playing at Barlibreak, moulding of Cocklebread, and such like prophane exercises. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xiii. 334 I am not as this Publican was, we know, the voice of the proud Pharisee, whose very name signifies separation, and our modern Separatists do but Echo the same note. 1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 186 So that the Words amount to this, That St. Paul before He was a Christian, was a Rigid Separatist. 1833 S. Hoole Disc. xii. 150 The acknowledged offender on whom this self-congratulating separatist looks down with scorn and abhorrence. 1866 A. Harwood tr. E. de Pressensé Jesus Christ i. iii. 83 The pious party, henceforward designated by the name of Pharisees, or separatists. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > sects and groups > [noun] > separatist separatist1645 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 32 Separatists, a kinde of Anabaptists, so called, because they pretended to be separated from the world. 3. One who advocates political separation; applied, e.g. to the supporters of the secession of the Southern States from the United States in 1860–61, and (by opponents) to the advocates of Home Rule for Ireland. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > disunionism > adherent of separationist1831 disunionist1832 separatist1871 partitionist1889 1871 Daily News 21 Sept. The Reichsrath..declared that the Potocki Ministry was throwing itself too plainly into the arms of separatists. 1885 Daily Tel. 9 Sept. (Cassell) The Separatists know..that they have nothing to expect either from the Radical or the Whig section of the Liberal party. 1886 R. Churchill Speech at Manch. 3 Mar. (1889) II. 23 Members of that party might be known as Unionists. Our opponents are the party of separation, and they may be known as ‘Separatists’. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 6/1 The majority of the Separatists—as the Times delights to call those who voted for the second reading [of the Home Rule Bill]. 1887 Spectator 2 July 888/2 ‘Separatist’ simply describes what Unionists believe must be the outcome of Home-rule. 4. A causer of separation.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 18.. M. Arnold (Webster 1911) Science has and will long have to be a divider and separatist, breaking arbitrary and fanciful connections. B. adj. That is a separatist; pertaining to, consisting of, or characteristic of separatists. 1. In ecclesiastical sense (see A. 1, A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [adjective] sectary1590 separatistical1610 separistical1633 separistic1655 separate1680 separating1734 sectarian1796 sectarial1816 separatist1830 separatistic1830 denominational1838 separatical1846 societyisha1873 confessional1907 1830 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. 392 The same formularism..will always much more appear in the smaller separatist parties. 2. In political sense (see A. 3). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [adjective] > person sectarian1649 separatist1864 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > relating to or supporting disunion separatist1864 1864 Realm 6 Apr. 1 The Hungarian regiments are composed of men..in no way interested in any revolutionary or separatist designs of the latter [Magyars]. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 168 The tendency of the Greek States, in spite of their separatist leanings. 1886 National Rev. Mar. 83 The Separatist movement conducted by Mr. Parnell. 1887 J. Chamberlain Speech Irish Question 15 Apr. in Speeches (1890) 25 The organ of the Separatist party. 1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 204 A man who saw that the future of the United States hinged on the one question, whether the national should prevail over the separatist principle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1608 |
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