| 释义 |
Romaˈnistic, a.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
1. Inclining to, tending towards, Romanism; of a Roman Catholic character.
1829Newman Lett. (1891) I. 206, I am used to think the country has not much to dread from Romanistic opinions. 1854Bp. Wilberforce in R. S. Wilberforce Life (1882) III. 329 Evasion seems to me the very clinging curse of everything Roman and Romanistic. 1884Urwick Nonconformity in Herts. 173 Those conformists who are as Protestant as he, yet are content to use these Romanistic expressions.
2. Pertaining to Roman Law.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 422 The German edition of Romanistic procedure is, on this head, more explicit than the Gallican.
3. = romance 1 b.
1882Mozley Remin. II. lxxxiv. 103 In this he lets out rather than avows his preference for the Romanistic languages to the Greek.
So Romaˈnistical a. rare—1.
1684H. More Answ. A iv, Whether this be to be deemed Romanistical or Anabaptistical. |