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adiaphorist, n. and a.|ædɪˈæfərɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n.
1. One indifferent about points of theological discussion; an indifferentist, or latitudinarian.
1645Lib. of Consc. 30 When the Magistrate is a Nullifidian, Neutralist, and Adiaphorist. 1710W. Hume Sacr. Succession 169 There is one text, which..if it confound not our adiaphorists, may make them indifferently modest.
2. Eccl. Hist. A member of a sect so called; moderate Lutherans, who held some things, condemned by Luther, to be indifferent or non-essential.
a1564Becon Articles of Chr. Relig. Wks. 1844, 401 In the freewill men, in the libertines, in the Adiaphorists. 1738Neal Hist. Puritans (1822) I. 56 Those who complied [to the Interim of Charles V] were for the most part Lutherans, and carried the name of Adiaphorists. 1832Macaulay Burleigh (1854) 233/1 Those German Protestants who were called Adiaphorists..considered the Popish rites as matters indifferent.
B. adj. Theologically indifferent.
1882Spectator 11 Feb. 195/1 Fused, as Catholicism and Protestantism once seemed likely to become fused, while England for a moment became Adiaphorist. |