Crossword clues for anglican
anglican
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anglican \An"gli*can\, a. [Angli the Angles, a Germanic tribe in Lower Germany. Cf. English.]
English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.
Anglican \An"gli*can\, n.
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A member of the Church of England.
Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists.
--Burke. In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "of the reformed Church of England" (opposed to Roman), from Medieval Latin Anglicanus, from Anglicus "of the English people, of England" (see anglicize). The noun meaning "adherent of the reformed Church of England" is first recorded 1797.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "anglican".
Newman left Oxford and the Anglican Church for the Church in which he died.
Christianity which was delivered for all time by the early teachers of the Church, and which was registered and attested in the Anglican formularies and by the Anglican divines.
I dissuaded a lady from attending the marriage of a sister who had seceded from the Anglican Church.
I thought that this was the doctrine of Scripture, of the early Church, and of the Anglican Church.
This was but a practical exhibition of the Anglican theory of Church Government, as I had already drawn it out myself.
I wrote to Bishop Wiseman, in whose Vicariate I found myself, to announce my conversion, I could find nothing better to say to him, than that I would obey the Pope as I had obeyed my own Bishop in the Anglican Church.
I felt such confidence in the substantial justice of the charges which I advanced against her, that I considered them to be a safeguard and an assurance that no harm could ever arise from the freest exposition of what I used to call Anglican principles.
Whatever faults then the Anglican system might have, and however boldly I might point them out, anyhow that system was not vulnerable on the side of Rome, and might be mended in spite of her.
I did not know all that the Fathers had said, but I felt that, even when their tenets happened to differ from the Anglican, no harm could come of reporting them.
Speaking of the strangeness at first sight, presented to the Anglican mind, of some of their principles and opinions, I bid the reader go forward hopefully, and not indulge his criticism till he knows more about them, than he will learn at the outset.
The Catenas of Anglican divines which occur in the series, though projected, I think, by me, were executed with a like aim at greater accuracy and method.
It was composed, after a careful consideration and comparison of the principal Anglican divines of the seventeenth century.
Christian faith and teaching proceed, and to use them as means of determining the relation of the Roman and Anglican systems to each other.
In this way it shows that to confuse the two together is impossible, and that the Anglican can be as little said to tend to the Roman, as the Roman to the Anglican.
It was an attempt at commencing a system of theology on the Anglican idea, and based upon Anglican authorities.