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pseudo-ˈcatholic, a. and n.
[pseudo- 1.]
A. adj. Falsely or erroneously called or claiming to be catholic.
1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 413 The pseudocatholike papists. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. (1614) 918 Not written in hatred of their Nation, because they are Spaniards, but of their Pseudo-catholike Religion. 1908Westm. Gaz. 19 May 2/3 The..minority who wish to turn the Church of England into a pseudo-Catholic sect.
B. n. A Catholic falsely so called.
In 17th c. a hostile term for Roman Catholic.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 106 The whole rout of Pseudo-catholikes. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. x. 17. 1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disput. 480 Such are the popish pseudo-catholics, who have derived their catholic errors not from the scriptures, but from the inventions of men.
So. † pseudo-caˈtholical a., -caˈtholicism. Obs.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 17 The whole cluster of Pseudocatholicall scriblers against vs. 1679Hist. Jetzer Pref. A j b, That Principle which obliges them..to Advance their Pseudo-catholicism, and to extirpate Heresie. |