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Wycliffian, -ifian, n. and a. Ch. Hist.|wɪˈklɪfɪən|
Forms: (see quots.).
[ad. med.L. Wyclyvian-us, or directly f. Wycliffe, -clif, etc.: see Wycliffite.]
†A. n. = Wycliffite n. Obs.
[c1400Knighton's Chron. (Rolls) II. 184 Sicque a vulgo Wyclyff discipuli et Wyclyviani sive Lollardi vocati sunt. Ibid. 312 Idem archiepiscopus firmavit sententiam excommunicationis super Lollardos sive Wyclyvianos.] 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) II. 965/2 Chaucer..semeth to bee a right Wicleuian. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 100 It had been easily answered, in that poynt, by the Wickleuians. 1654H. Turbervill Man. Controv. 47 Let him not cite the Wicklefians, for they held, That [etc.]. 1717Earbery Pref. Varillas' Pretended Reformers p. vi, Our new Allies the Lutherans, Calvinists, and Wickliffians.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to, characterizing the teaching of, Wycliffe or his followers.
1720Lewis Life Wyclif 114 The Wicliffian Superstition which obliges the Ministers of the Church to be Beggars. 1889Q. Rev. April 510 Some of the sentiments are exclusively Wiclifian.
Hence † Wycliffianism, = next. Obs.—1
1668H. More Div. Dial. II. 90 That Principle of Wickleffianism,..which the Jesuites themselves so loudly hoot at. |