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Swedenborgian, a. and n.|swiːd(ə)nˈbɔːdʒɪən|
[f. the name of Emanuel Swedenborg or Svedberg (see below) + -ian.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientific and religious writer (1688–1772), or the body of followers of his religious teachings, organized in 1788 and styled by themselves ‘The New Church’.
b. n. A follower of Swedenborg. Hence Swedenˈborgianism, also rarely ˈSwedenborgism.
1791J. Lackington Mem. xxv. 195 The Swedenborgians, or New Jerusalemists, are gaining ground very fast. 1802M. Cutler in Life etc. (1888) II. 114 In the evening the Swedenborgian preached in the Hall. 1807Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxii. 144 (heading) Account of Swedenborgianism. Ibid., The New Jerusalem, or Swedenborgian chapel. 1810Crabbe Borough iv. 168 Some Swedenborgians in our streets are found, Those wandering walkers on enchanted ground. 1825Syd. Smith Sp. Wks. 1859 II. 199/1 They never can mean that our government is essentially Presbyterian, essentially Swedenborgian, essentially Ranting, or essentially Methodist. 1842C. Fox Jrnl. 6 June in Memories of Old Friends (1882) viii. 160 Thomas Carlyle came in..and we presently got, I know not how, to Swedenborgianism. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Immortality (1883) 242 Some neat and plausible system, as Calvinism, Romanism, or Swedenborgism, for household use. 1856Spiritual Herald June 147 The Lord may be better represented by an animated and intelligent orb..than by a Whewellite or Swedenborgian star. 1863E. H. Plumptre in Smith's Dict. Bible III. s.v. Science, A spurious theosophy—of which Swedenborgianism is, perhaps, the nearest modern analogue. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iii. ix. 682, I should love to be a sort of Swedenborgian with all sorts of fanciful private beliefs. 1920M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iii. i. 12 William Hill, a Swedenborgian preacher and a grammarian. 1976Gramophone June 32/1 Pitcairn wished to sponsor the promotion and recording of his fellow Swedenborgian's music. |