The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puseyistic \Pu"sey*is"tic\, Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, a. Of or pertaining to Puseyism.
Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, n. One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.
Usage examples of "puseyite".
It then appeared that Lord Aberdeen had been summoned by her majesty to form a ministry, but his lordship, Sir James Graham, and the Peel party generally, refused to co-operate with Lord John in the ecclesiastical titles bill, the Peelite section of both houses, especially its leader, Lord Aberdeen, being committed to the new ecclesiastical party called Puseyites, who sympathised with the efforts of the Roman Catholics to restore the grandeur of their hierarchy.
It was obvious enough that the house and the country were resolved upon the passing of the bill, but the Peelite and Puseyite orators resisted it at every stage, with a zeal and activity which surpassed that of the Roman Catholic members.
Hampden and the most active and influential member of that association, called the Puseyite party, from which we have those very strange productions, entitled, Tracts for the Times.
No Puseyite, or conservative of any school, was ever more inflexibly attached to time-honored inconveniencies than Dinah.