The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tridentine \Tri*den"tine\, a. [From L. Tridentum Trent.] Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.
Wikipedia
The adjective Tridentine refers to any thing or person pertaining to the city of Trent, Italy . It is applied in particular to:
- The Council of Trent, one of the ecumenical councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held in that city in the 16th century, and to the teachings emphasized by it and the related legislation issued by the Popes of the time, especially Pope Pius V
- The Tridentine Mass, which supplanted the various versions of the Pre-Tridentine Mass and in turn, with the introduction of the Mass of Paul VI ceased to be the ordinary form of the Roman Rite but some versions of which continue to be used as extraordinary forms of the Roman Rite, with official approval in the case of the 1962 version.
- The Traditionalist Catholic movement and its members, who have adhered to the 1962 or earlier editions of the Roman Missal.
- The Tridentine Reformation.
Usage examples of "tridentine".
Church, did we wish it ever so much, which does not acknowledge our orders, refuses us the Cup, demands our acquiescence in image-worship, and excommunicates us, if we do not receive it and all the decisions of the Tridentine Council.
For myself, this only I see, that there is indefinitely more in the Fathers against our own state of alienation from Christendom than against the Tridentine Decrees.
Steel encased the riders and their lances ended in horrid, tridentine claws designed to punch clean through armor, rending and tearing what they found beneath it.
It was proposed that a revised edition should be prepared, and in spite of protests from those who had assisted the late Pontiff, and of the Spaniards, who saw the province of their Inquisition invaded, the thing was done, and what was called the Tridentine Index appeared at Rome in 1564.
Apart from pestering the local parish priest about the Tridentine Mass, and seeing to it that she was the scourge of the vegetable market, what else did she have in her life?
Even those who, like Van Helmont, wished to defend the church and to reconcile the Tridentine decrees with philosophy, found that their labors brought them under suspicion and that what the church demanded was not harmony of thought but abnegation of it.
Pius also caused to be prepared a symbol known as the Tridentine Profession of Faith which was made binding on all priests.
The results of their labors were published by Paul IV under the name of the Tridentine Index.
Vatican II invalid, abandon the principle of collegiality, reintroduce the Tridentine Mass.