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uncatholic, a. and n.|ʌnˈkæθəlɪk| [un-1 7 and 12.] A. adj. Not catholic or universal, in an ecclesiastical sense; also spec., not Roman-Catholic.
1601? W. Watson Imp. Consid. Sec. Priests (1675) 61 This intolerable and very uncatholick course thus held by divers, to the great offence of many good Catholicks. 1660Gauden God's Gt. Demonstr. 51 Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ's institutions. 1678T. Jones Heart & its Sov. 522 Our Romanists..are so restrain'd, and Vncatholick, and Jewish-like, in the bounds of their Church, which they so confine to Rome. 1685J. Scott Chr. Life ii. vii. §9 Now that Church which requires sinful or uncatholick Terms of Communion, doth hereby exclude..all Parts of the Catholick Church from its Communion. 1711G. Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 271 A new uncatholic mission of their own creating. 1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. 328 Such a doctrine is in no sense uncatholic. 1896Gore R.C. Claims App. i. 210 We in the Church of England..are yet unfettered by any uncatholic dogma. transf.1624Middleton Game at Chess ii. i, I'll tell thee what a most uncatholic jest He put upon me once. B. n. One who is not a Catholic.
1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 133 The Bishop of Trèves doubted for a time on account of the un-Catholics, but decided that the decree would be advantageous. |