Catholicismn.
1.
a. The system, faith, and practice of the Catholic Church; adherence to the Catholic Church.
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Catholicisme..the orthodox Faith of the Catholick Church.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Rom. xi. (note) Much less will God ever confine the Church and Covenant of peculiarity to the Jewish Nation, and take it from the Gentiles, and cease Catholicism.
b. usually of the Roman Catholic Church.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [noun]
RomeeOE
Babylon1530
popishness1531
popery?1536
popistry?1542
papistry1543
mass-monging1552
antichristianity1555
antichristianism1588
Babel1599
papacy1599
Romanism1603
poping1608
Babylonism1610
Catholicism1613
Romanality1637
catholicship1653
Romishness1653
Roman Catholicism1662
Roman Catholicity1806
catholicity1830
popism1841
old religion1934
1613–7 S. Purchas Descr. India in Pilgrimage (1864) 131 Thomæan Christians. These Thomæans are now, as the Iesuites report, reduced to their Catholicisme.
1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xxix. (T.) All the gipsies that I have conversed with assured me of their sound catholicism.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 1 We may think of Voltairism..as we think of Catholicism or the Renaissance or Calvinism.
c. so Roman Catholicism: see Roman Catholicism n.
Π
1870 Daily News 5 Dec. Mrs. Craik can do justice to the earnest and beautiful side of Roman Catholicism.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. xiii. 412 The object..being no doubt to ridicule Roman Catholicism.
d. A trait, note, or act of a good Catholic.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [noun] > characteristic of
Catholicism1609
1609 Bp. T. Morton Direct Answer Higgons 2 Who hold it a Catholicisme to brand me with only an imaginarie imputation.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 286 Censure of what..we have been led to deem genuine Catholicisms.
ΚΠ
1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery Introd. sig. I4 This broken consent is not an infallible testimony of the Catholicism of the doctrine.
3. = catholicity n. 1. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [noun]
universality1555
catholicness1605
catholicship1653
Catholicism1789
ecumenicity1840
catholicity1847
unsectarianism1866
ecumenicality1869
undenominationalism1883
ecumenicalism1888
ecumenism1948
ecumenics1982
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 219 All religions..are tolerated..and a spirit of liberality and Catholicism is increasing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
n.1609