Swedenborgianadj.n.
/swiːd(ə)nˈbɔːdʒɪən/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientific and religious writer (1688–1772), or the body of followers of his religious teachings, organized in 1788 and styled by themselves ‘The New Church’.
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1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxii. 144 The New Jerusalem, or Swedenborgian chapel.
1825 S. Smith Speeches in Wks. (1859) II. 199/1 They never can mean that our government is essentially Presbyterian, essentially Swedenborgian, essentially Ranting, or essentially Methodist.
1856 Spiritual Herald June 147 The Lord may be better represented by an animated and intelligent orb..than by a Whewellite or Swedenborgian star.
1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iii. i. 12 William Hill, a Swedenborgian preacher and a grammarian.
B. n.
A follower of Swedenborg.
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1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxv. 195 The Swedenborgians, or New Jerusalemists, are gaining ground very fast.
1803 M. Cutler Jrnl. 27 Dec. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 114 In the evening the Swedenborgian preached in the Hall.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough iv. 51 Some Swedenbourgeans in our streets are found, Those wandering Walkers on enchanted Ground.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ix. 682 I should love to be a sort of Swedenborgian with all sorts of fanciful private beliefs.
1976 Gramophone June 32/1 Pitcairn wished to sponsor the promotion and recording of his fellow Swedenborgian's music.
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Swedenˈborgianism n.
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Swedenborgism1854
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxii. 144 (heading) Account of Swedenborgianism.
1842 C. Fox Jrnl. 6 June in Mem. Old Friends (1882) viii. 160 Thomas Carlyle came in..and we presently got, I know not how, to Swedenborgianism.
1863 E. H. Plumptre in W. Smith Dict. Bible III. 1161/1 A spurious theosophy—of which Swedenborgianism is, perhaps, the nearest modern analogue.
ˈSwedenborgism n.
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Swedenborgianism1807
Swedenborgism1854
1854 R. W. Emerson Immortality in Lett. & Social Aims (1883) 242 Some neat and plausible system, as Calvinism, Romanism, or Swedenborgism, for household use.
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