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tractarian, n. and a.|trækˈtɛərɪən|
[f. tract n.1 + -arian; in 2, after trinitarian, etc.]
A. n.
1. A writer, publisher, or distributor of tracts. nonce-uses.
(In quot. 1824, referring to the Religious Tract Society.)
1824Man of Letters 15 May 99 The superiority of the vulgar version will be acknowledged, we think, even by the tractarians themselves. 1851Illustr. Lond. News 30 Aug. 270/2 The fanatical tract distributors of London..an itinerant distributor... The Tractarian was silent. 1900Speaker 12 May 170/2 To revive his [James VI's] reputation as a poet or a tractarian.
2. (Freq. with capital initial.) A member of that school of High Churchmen which maintained the doctrines and practices set forth in ‘Tracts for the Times’ (see tract n.1 3 b).
1839C. Benson Disc. Tradit. & Episc. Pref. 3 The tractarians, that is, the authors, editors, and approvers of the Tracts for the Times, are Divines of acknowledged piety, and sincerity, and learning. Ibid. 5 The tractarians, if without offence we may so call them. 1841Bp. D. Wilson Let. in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 188 Her apostasy is like a standard-bearer fainting: and all aggravated by the opposite errors of the Tractarians. 1888C. A. Lane Notes Eng. Ch. Hist. II. vi. xxix. 253 The Tractarians were the extreme wing of the modern ‘High Church’ party. 1892F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 145/1 Lawless in formation, certainly, is Tractarian; and yet it will live in history, to the exclusion of Tractite, Tractuist, and Tractator, all of which have been proposed in its stead.
B. adj.
1. Of or belonging to the Tractarians (A. 2).
1840I. Taylor Anc. Chr. (1842) II. 144 note, One of the most recent..publications of the Tractarian school. 1841Bp. D. Wilson Jrnl. 18 Nov., in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 193 Having given my booksellers..orders to send me the Tractarian Controversy publications. a1873S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) II. 262 So strong a Romeward tendency amongst the members of the Tractarian party. 1896R. Palmer Fam. & Pers. Mem. I. xxvii. 397 The ‘Tractarian’ forces were shattered by the loss of their leader.
2. Distributing tracts. nonce-use.
1885Athenæum 11 July 44 [Dr. Lansdell] was soon afterwards arrested for distributing tracts at railway stations... It is not very surprising that a policeman stopped the tractarian traveller.
Hence Tracˈtarianism, the tenets or principles of the Tractarians, the Tractarian system; adherence to or maintenance of this; Tracˈtarianize v., intr. to teach, maintain, or practice Tractarianism (in Tracˈtarianizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.).
1840(title) Hints to Transcendentalists for working Infidel Designs through *Tractarianism. 1841Bp. D. Wilson in Bateman Life (1860) II. xvi. 185 If he had not been imbued for seven years—steeped—in Tractarianism. 1899Bp. Stubbs Visitation Charges (1904) 344 What is called the Oxford Movement, the movement represented by the Tracts for the Times, Tractarianism as it is still called.
1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 137 More than one young *Tractarianising Cleric. 1880G. A. Simcox in Macm. Mag. No. 245. 399 The imputation of tractarianising clung to Wilberforce however he might try to separate himself from the Tractarians. |