establishmentarianadj.n.
/ɪˌstablɪʃmənˈtɛːrɪən/ A. adj.
1. (a) Advocating the principle of an established church; characteristic of those who advocate this principle. (b) That adheres to or favours a church for the reason that it is established.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [adjective]
establishmentarian1847
1847 Ecclesiologist VII. 173 The old establishmentarian leaven is not worked out, far from it.
1858 Sat. Rev. 5 387/1 The analogous form of this faith..has taken an Erastian and Establishmentarian turn.
1875 W. E. Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 210 The prosecutors..are strongly (to use a barbarous word) establishmentarian.
1878 G. A. Denison Notes of My Life (ed. 2) 79 The Church Corporate cannot be said to be in substance other than Establishmentarian.
2. Belonging to the Established Church.
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1849 Fraser's Mag. 39 128 Children of Methodist, Baptist..and Establishmentarian parents.
B. n.
One who supports the principle of an ‘Establishment’ or an Established Church. Also, an adherent of the Established Church.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > supporter of
parliamentarian1605
malignant1642
state-churchman1705
establishmentarian1846
1846 Hook Educ. People 37 Those who, like myself, are called High Churchmen, have little or no sympathy with mere Establishmentarians.
1862 Sat. Rev. 14 417/2 They [Baptists and Independents] were all generally Establishmentarians; but they could make no other claim to be established than that of numbers and power.
1879 Daily News 28 June 6/1 The Nonconformists have made inroads on the ranks of the Establishmentarians.
Derivatives
establishmenˈtarianism n. the tenets of an establishmentarian; attachment to the principle of a State Church.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun]
statist1602
statism1609
state-churchism1742
establishmentism1851
establishmentarianism1873
1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 44 Establishmentarianism was wont to roll over the prelatial [Abp. Trench's] tongue.
1876 Tinsley's Mag. 18 386 The days of Establishmentarianism would be numbered.
Draft additions 1993
1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the establishment (sense 8b); supportive of or favouring the establishment and its values; establishment-minded, conservative.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right
illiberal1649
white?1740
right1794
conservative1802
centre-right1822
agricolous1825
hunkerish1857
right wing1857
rightward1887
rightist1894
rightwards1931
right-of-centre1937
establishmentarian1962
righty1970
neo-con1979
New Rightist1981
1962 Punch 26 Dec. 937/3 The sober and establishmentarian Sunday Times.
1972 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 19/8 The Board of Governors, presided over by the Earl of Harewood, is an essentially Establishmentarian body.
1973 G. W. Hart Right from Start iii. 104 The same amateurs, both workers and contributors, were also less deeply establishmentarian in their thinking.
1988 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 10/6 The newsreels, with their portentous, plummy-voiced, super-patriotic commentators.., project an Olympian, establishmentarian, all-knowing image.
2. One who belongs to or favours the establishment (sense 8b).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > adherent of
praetorian1647
illiberal1818
rightist1894
right-winger1920
fascist1921
righty1961
establishmentarian1962
New Rightist1977
neo-con1979
1962 J. K. Galbraith Jrnl. 19 Feb. in Ambassador's Jrnl. (1969) xv. 305 He is in, which is the basic position of all Establishmentarians.
1966 Economist 12 Mar. 967/1 British businessmen, trade union leaders, economists, politicians, civil servants and City establishmentarians.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone i. 21 They were..secret establishmentarians in counterculture drag.
1989 Times 6 Jan. 14/7 The centre-right would-be Establishmentarians are as infuriated by Spy as their centre-left counterparts in the media Establishment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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