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religionary, a. and n.|rɪˈlɪdʒənərɪ|
[f. prec. + -ary, or ad. F. religionnaire, It., Sp. religionario n., Protestant, Calvinist.]
A. adj. Relating to religion; religious. Now rare.
a1691Bp. T. Barlow Rem. 638 His Religionary Professions in his last Will and Testament. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 219 His Religionary Pamphlets for that purpose were these. 1867Baring-Gould Cur. Myths I. viii. 164 It is a strange instance of religionary virulence.
B. n.
†a. A person ‘in religion’. Obs.
b. [See etym. note.] A Protestant. ? Obs.
1663H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxiii. 256 Seven and thirty women, the most of them old, and Religionaries of this temple. 1683Apol. Prot. France iv. 35 The gathering together of the Factions of the Religionaries. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Drama 6 Those Protestant Religionaries and Popish Sectaries. 1760Ann. Reg. ii. 176/1 To distinguish them from the Protestants, who are called Religionaries. |