uncatholicadj.n.
/ʌnˈkaθəlɪk/ A. adj.in extended use.1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. i I'll tell thee what a most uncatholic jest He put upon me once.
Not catholic or universal, in an ecclesiastical sense; also spec., not Roman-Catholic.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [adjective] > not
uncatholic1601
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [adjective] > not
uncatholic1601
acatholic1809
non-Catholic1823
unromanized1847
non-Roman1867
1601 W. Watson Important Considerations (1675) 61 This intolerable and very uncatholick course thus held by divers, to the great offence of many good Catholicks.
1660 J. Gauden Μεγαλεια Θεου 51 Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ's institutions.
1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 522 Our Romanists..are so restrain'd, and Vncatholick, and Jewish-like, in the bounds of their Church, which they so confine to Rome.
1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. vii. §9 Now that Church which requires sinful or uncatholick Terms of Communion, doth hereby exclude..all Parts of the Catholick Church from its Communion.
1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. Pref. Disc. p. ccx A new Uncatholick Mission of their own creating.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 328 Such a doctrine is in no sense uncatholic.
1896 C. Gore Rom. Catholic Claims App. i. 210 We in the Church of England..are yet unfettered by any uncatholic dogma.
B. n.
One who is not a Catholic.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > not
non-papist1691
acatholic1745
non-Catholic1788
uncatholic1865
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 133 The Bishop of Trèves doubted for a time on account of the un-Catholics, but decided that the decree would be advantageous.
Derivatives
uncatholicity n.
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