单词 | whitgiftian |
释义 | Whitgiftiann.adj. A. n. A pupil or former pupil of Whitgift School, Croydon. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school Etonian1635 Paul's pigeona1661 Westmonasterian1677 Westminster1691 Rugbeian1714 Wykehamist1758 Wykhamite1828 Westminsterian1835 Marlburian1851 Shirburnian1859 Pauline1861 Harrovian1864 Salopian1866 Whitgiftian1880 1880 Whitgift Mag. Jan. 13/2 We were glad to notice among the Chorus several ‘Old Whitgiftians’. 1905 (title) The Whitgiftian. [Previously The Whitgift Magazine.] B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of John Whitgift (c1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of Whitgift School. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [adjective] > specific Whitgiftian1962 1962 Hist. Mag. Protestant Episcopal Church U.S. XXXI. 128 The picturesquely rhetorical phrase of F. W. Maitland has been considered the most decent dismissal of the whole Whitgiftian flavour: ‘a remorseless pre~destinarian’. 1967 P. Collison Elizabethan Puritan Movement v. i. 245 Of this generation of clergy, few with minds of their own would subscribe to the Whitgiftian formula without a qualm. 1977 P. Clark Eng. Provincial Soc. from Reformation to Revolution v. 184 In the county [of Kent]..the Whitgiftian reaction caused a marked polarisation between moderate Puritans and conformist Presbyterians on the one hand, and less respectable radicals and separatists on the other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.adj.1880 |
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