单词 | tractarian |
释义 | tractariann.adj. A. n. 1. A writer, publisher, or distributor of tracts. nonce-uses.In quot. 1824, referring to the Religious Tract Society. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > publisher of specific material anecdotographer1686 anecdotariana1734 tractarian1824 Minerva press1843 music house1854 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > the writing of > one who handler1534 treater1594 treatiser1604 tractatora1638 exercitator1649 diatribista1660 dissertator1698 tractarian1824 tractitian1831 disquisitionist1838 dissertationist1844 disquisitor1889 1824 Man of Letters 15 May 99 The superiority of the vulgar version will be acknowledged, we think, even by the tractarians themselves. 1851 Illustr. London News 30 Aug. 270/2 The fanatical tract distributors of London..an itinerant distributor... The Tractarian was silent. 1900 Speaker 12 May 170/2 To revive his [James VI's] reputation as a poet or a tractarian. 2. (Frequently with capital initial.) A member of that school of High Churchmen which maintained the doctrines and practices set forth in ‘Tracts for the Times’ (see tract n.1 3b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Tractarianism > [noun] > person High Churchman1679 transitionist1823 Tractite1834 Oxfordist1836 Newmanite1837 Puseyite1838 tractarian1839 Puseyist1841 tractator1842 1839 C. Benson Disc. Tradit. & Episc. Pref. 3 The tractarians, that is, the authors, editors, and approvers of the Tracts for the Times, are Divines of acknowledged piety, and sincerity, and learning. 1839 C. Benson Disc. Tradit. & Episc. Pref. 5 The tractarians, if without offence we may so call them. 1841 D. Wilson Let. in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 188 Her apostasy is like a standard-bearer fainting: and all aggravated by the opposite errors of the Tractarians. 1888 C. A. Lane Notes Eng. Church Hist. II. vi. xxix. 253 The Tractarians were the extreme wing of the modern ‘High Church’ party. 1892 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 145/1 Lawless in formation, certainly, is Tractarian; and yet it will live in history, to the exclusion of Tractite, Tractuist, and Tractator, all of which have been proposed in its stead. B. adj. 1. Of or belonging to the Tractarians ( A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Tractarianism > [adjective] Tractite1834 Newmanite1838 tractarian1841 Puseyitical1844 Newmanic1849 Puseyistical1849 transitionist1850 1841 D. Wilson Jrnl. 18 Nov. in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 193 Having given my booksellers..orders to send me the Tractarian Controversy publications. 1842 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity II. 144 (note) One of the most recent..publications of the Tractarian school. a1873 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) II. 262 So strong a Romeward tendency amongst the members of the Tractarian party. 1896 R. Palmer Fam. & Pers. Mem. I. xxvii. 397 The ‘Tractarian’ forces were shattered by the loss of their leader. 2. Distributing tracts.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1885 Athenæum 11 July 44 [Dr. Lansdell] was soon afterwards arrested for distributing tracts at railway stations... It is not very surprising that a policeman stopped the tractarian traveller. Derivatives Tracˈtarianism n. the tenets or principles of the Tractarians, the Tractarian system; adherence to or maintenance of this. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Tractarianism > [noun] Newmanism1835 Tractism1837 Newmania1838 Oxfordism1838 Puseyism1838 Tractarianism1840 Oxford Movement1841 1840 (title) Hints to Transcendentalists for working infidel designs through Tractarianism. 1841 D. Wilson in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 185 If he had not been imbued for seven years—steeped—in Tractarianism. 1899 W. Stubbs Visitation Charges (1904) 344 What is called the Oxford Movement, the movement represented by the Tracts for the Times, Tractarianism as it is still called. Thesaurus » Categories » Tracˈtarianize v. (intransitive) to teach, maintain, or practice Tractarianism. Tracˈtarianizing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 137 More than one young Tractarianising Cleric. 1880 G. A. Simcox in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 398/2 The imputation of tractarianising clung to Wilberforce however he might try to separate himself from the Tractarians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1824 |
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