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anti-Catholic, a. and n.|æntɪˈkæθəlɪk|
[anti-1 3, 5 ¶ .]
A. adj. Opposed to what is, or is called, catholic.
B. n. (sc. person).
1665N. French Let. 19 Sept. in Hist. Wks. (1846) I. 136 A principal Leader in the Anti-catholick Ormonian Faction. 1780H. Walpole Let. 6 Feb. (1904) XI. 125 Lord George Gordon..dresses..like the first Methodists; though I take the modern ones to be no anti-Catholics. 1819S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 142 The Anti-Catholics have gone to the east and west, to the north and south, for recruits. 1823Scott Peveril (1865) 168 The commercial and nautical interests of England were indeed particularly anti-catholic. |