单词 | church of england |
释义 | Church of Englandn. The English branch of the Christian Church; (since 1534) spec. that constituted at the Reformation, a Protestant church which retains many Catholic traditions in liturgy and government, but rejects the Pope's authority and has the monarch as its titular Supreme Governor. Cf. Anglican Church at Anglican adj. 1, English Church n. at English adj. and n. Compounds 1c, Established Church at established adj. 2. Abbreviated C of E.The separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church was effected by King Henry VIII when Parliament recognized him as Supreme Head of the Church of England (see quot. 1534). The Church retains an episcopal polity, under the spiritual leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Various traditions of worship and belief exist within the Church: see High Church adj., Low Church adj., Broad Church n. The Church of England is the mother church of the Anglican communion worldwide. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > [noun] > person > collective Church of England1395 English Church1532 church people1684 12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 296 (MED) Qwan þe chirche of Yngelond began to dote in temporalte aftir her stepmodir, þe grete chirche of Rome..feyth, hope, and charite begunne for to fle out of oure chirche. 1534 Act of Supremacy, 26 Hen. VIII c. 1 That the King our Sovereign Lord..shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia. 1548 Act Uniformity, 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 1 The Book of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, after the Use of the Church of England. 1559 Acte for Vniformitie of Common Prayer in Anno Primo Reginæ Elizabethe at Parl. c. ii. sig. B ivv Be it enacted, that suche ornamentes of the Churche, and of the ministers therof, shalbe reteyned and be in vse, as was in this Churche of Englande..in the second yere of the raigne of kyng Edwarde the .vi. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. sig. S3 We hold, that..there is not any man of the Church of England, but the same man is also a member of the Common-wealth; nor any member of the Common-wealth, which is not also of the Church of England. 1661 Corporation Act, 13 Chas. II Stat. 2. c. 1 §12 The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Rites of the Church of England. 1688–9 Toleration Act, 1 Will. & Mary c. 18 §5 Any Assembly of Persons dissenting from the Church of England. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 262 I have so far wander'd from the Discipline of the Church of England to have been last Sunday at the Opera. 1758 J. Wesley Let. 24 Aug. (1931) IV. 29 Whoever acknowledges any Dissenters as brethren does hereby give himself the lie when he says he is a member of the Church of England. 1795 F. Plowden Church & State iii. iv. 416 The rights and liberties of the Church of England..might be resumed repealed altered or annulled by the State. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 180 The Church of England..retains private confession in the rubric for visitation of the sick. 1884 Christian Commonw. 28 Feb. 465/1 These fierce contestors against Ritualism in the Church of England. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxviii. 120 The acidulous humour with which the American treated the Church of England disconcerted him. 1950 Theology 53 417 It [sc. the Episcopalian Church in the United States] is, like the Church of England, a national church, which is supposed to represent officially the spiritual outreach of the body politic. 1981 Harvard Theol. Rev. 74 218 The Church of England differs from the Church of Rome about the nature or essence of the merits of Christ..and the number and power of the means or sacraments which God requires for the effectual application of them. 2007 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 6/8 As a traditional Anglican and head of the Church of England, Her Majesty is not overly keen on ‘vicarettes’. Derivatives ˌChurch of ˈEnglander n. a member or supporter of the Church of England. ΚΠ 1768 London Mag. Sept. 473/1 The true believer will pre-judge or determine of no set of christians, by their outward denomination of Lutheran, Calvinist, Arian, Socinian, Church of Englander, Church of Scotlander, &c. 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 270 The distinctions between the Catholics, the church of Englanders, or Bucerists, and the Calvinists. 1903 Cent. Mag. May 40/2 Parson Budd be a tremendous Church-of-Englander, so I heard squire say. He've got his knife into all chapelers an' free-thinkers an' such like. 2001 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Oct. 15 We read that..by the year 2013, there will be more regular mosquegoers than regular Church of Englanders. ˌChurch of ˈEnglandism n. the doctrines and practices of the Church of England; advocacy of these; = Anglicanism n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > [noun] Protestancy1565 Church of Englandism1812 Anglicanism1836 1812 J. Styles Design of God in blessing Us 64 In England,..for Church-of-Englandism to arrogate to itself the name of national, is only to grasp at as much of that exclusive practice which distinguishes Spain. 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism & its Catech. Examined Introd. 28 In comes the profligate King, with his Church-of-Englandism on his front, and his Church-of-Romanism in his heart. 1905 Dial 1 Aug. 54/1 Frederick himself seems..never to have embraced his father's Unitarianism, life-long dissenter though he was from the conventional Church-of-Englandism. 2009 Church Times 5 June 15/2 The bishops do not use their position to promote Church of Englandism, but to speak on behalf of all people of faith. ΚΠ 1810 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3858 The majority of the most zealous C. of Englandists, both Clergy & Laymen.] 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism & its Catech. Examined App. I. 147 The great body of Church-of-Englandists. 1827 W. Carpenter Critica Biblica II. 240 As if a Church-of-Englandist Priest were indicted in the King's Bench for reading the Athanasian creed. 1894 A. F. Marshall Comedy of Eng. Protestantism 107 The Army..insists only on spiritual change of heart; and, if I mistake not, the great majority of Church of Englandists are of one mind with the Army in that regard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1395 |
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