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Romanist, n. (and a.)|ˈrəʊmənɪst|
[ad. mod.L. Romanista (Luther, 1520): see Roman a.1 and -ist. So G. Romanist (Luther), F. romaniste.]
1. A member or adherent of the Church of Rome; a Roman Catholic.
1523[Coverdale] Old God (1534) F iv, The Romanistes do saye euen what soeuer they lyst of theyr own priuileges. 1547Life Abp. Canterb. To Rdr. E j b, Idolatrous Archiflamines, the which were euery one..professed Baalites, and sworne Romanistes. 1620Ussher Serm. 35 In vaine..doe the Romanists goe about to perswade vs, that their Images be no Idoles. 1676Glanvill Ess. Philos. & Relig. v. 27 We..grosly contradict our selves, in most of our Disputes against the Romanists. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers I. iv. 77 The Christians in general, but more particularly the Romanists, they actually hate and abominate. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxv. 273 Southampton..stood at the head of the Romanists. 1832Palmer Orig. Liturg. II. 254 Romanists may object that mission..is lost by schism. 1869Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 264 It is the Protestant cause that has most to hope from free discussion, in which I believe Romanists never engage willingly. 1879Haddan Apost. Succession Pref. p. viii, Romanists also, as a body, condemn our orders.
b. attrib. or as adj. Belonging or adhering to the Church of Rome.
1635Laud in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 477 By which means the Romanist, which is too strong a Party already, would both have strengthened, and made a scorn of you. 1687Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 425 Mandamus's have been lately sent down to Magdalen colledge for 6 new Romanist fellowes. 1849Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 291 Only half of these are Romanist churches. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 191 A large portion of England was still Romanist. 1888Pater Ess. fr. Guardian (1896) 85 On the whole actors fared better in England than in Romanist France.
2. One who is versed in or practises Roman Law; a lawyer of the Roman school. Also attrib.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xli. (1739) 68 The Saxons had not been long acquainted with the Romanists, but they had gotten that trick of theirs also of disheriting by last Will. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 148 The Romanists, and after them the English lawyers [etc.]. Ibid. II. 381 The ecclesiastical and other Romanist lawyers..exhibit a perceptible distinction. 1893Maitland Township & Borough 14 Foreign lawyers, Romanists and Germanists, are disputing strenuously.
3. A student of Roman antiquities.
1858Raine Mem. J. Hodgson II. 276 Horsley's Britannia Romana is the storehouse from which succeeding Romanists have drawn the most valuable information. 1889Archæol. Jrnl. XLVI. 274 Archæology in England for a while went half mad upon the antiquity of man. The Romanists found themselves at a discount.
4. One who makes a special study of Romance languages or philology.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 668/2 Romania..contains articles of the most eminent Romanists. 1888Jrnl. Educ. Jan. 32 Those who claim to call themselves ‘Romanists’..must make a much more complete and careful study of Latin than that commonly made by school-boys.
Add:5. Art. Any of several 16th-cent. Dutch and Flemish painters influenced by the techniques of Italian Renaissance artists.
1885Mrs. H. Rossel tr. Wauters's Flemish School of Painting x. 130 The brotherhoods of the Romanists were composed of people who had journeyed to Rome. 1910M. Innes Schools of Painting xvi. 148 After Massys and Mabuse comes a period of rapid deterioration in Flemish art. The sixteenth century painters of Antwerp were in all essentials mere copyists of the Italians; they are known as the ‘Romanists’. 1914M. Rooses Art in Flanders iii. 163 The plagiarists of the Italian style lost more and more the Flemish qualities which were still admired in the first Romanist painters, Gossaert and Van Orley. 1959P. & L. Murray Dict. Art & Artists 279 Romanists were the Northern artists who went to Italy and returned filled with the idea of rivalling Raphael and/or Michelangelo. 1984E. Lucie-Smith Dict. Art Terms 163/1 Romanists, Northern European artists of the 16th c. who were heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance art (in particular, the work of Raphael and Michelangelo). They included Mabuse, Van Orly and Maerten van Heemskerck. |