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Romanish, a. and n.|ˈrəʊmənɪʃ|
[f. L. Rōmān-us, or in later use Roman n.1 or a.1 + -ish. Cf. G. romanisch, MDu. romeinsch.]
†1. = Roman a.1 1. Also absol. as pl. Obs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. i, Þa..yfel þe se cyning Ðeodric..wið þam romaniscum witum dyde. c1000ælfric Lives Saints ix. 142 He wæs ær ᵹewreᵹed..to romaniscre leode. c1200Ormin 6902 Biforr þe Romanisshe king. Ibid. 6911 Onnȝæn Þe Romanisshe leode. c1205Lay. 5289 Al þat Romanisce folc ferde bi heore ræde. c1275Ibid. 7936 Loþliche hii fohte, and Romanisse fulden.
2. Belonging to, characteristic of, the Church of Rome; Romish; Roman Catholic.
seo romanisce cyrice occurs in the OE. translation of Baeda's Hist. Eccl., but the later use is independent of this.
1591Turnbull Expos. St. Jas. 212 Who are now hote, now cold in religion: now professours, now Romanish Catholikes. 1636Massinger Bashful Lover iii. iii, I do not like The Romanish ‘restitution’. 1688(title), A brief but full Vindication of the Church of England, from the Romanish Charge of Schism. 1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. Consid. 361 Affording a formidable display of Romanish versatility. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 57 This city [Louvain] became the center whither all the Romanish emigrants from England gathered.
3. absol. as n. = Romansh.
Perhaps to be stressed as Roˈmanish.
1689Burnet Tracts I. 89 In one half of the Country they Preach in High Dutch, and in other half in a corrupt Italian, which they call Romanish. 1825Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 768/2 The Romansche (or Romanish) has a better claim to be considered as a Dialect of the French than of the Italian. |