acatholicn.adj.

1745 J. Swinton Trav. Three Eng. Gent. v. in Harleian Misc. V. 344/2 But, as this Intelligence came from Roman-Catholics, who are seldom disposed to give a true Representation of the Principles of those they differ from, perhaps these Acatholics, as their Adversaries sometimes affect to call them, when discoursing with Protestants, are all of them either Lutherans or Reformed.

1834 tr. A. Bronikowski Court of Sigismund Augustus II. xiii. 251 Before God and before the King we are all alike,..and the Acatholics, far from submitting to any encroachment upon their rights, will press for the fulfilment of their just demands.

1861 E. About Rome of To-day xiv. 188 This is the cemetery of the acatholics. The Romans, by an effort at toleration, give this name to the heretical and schismatical foreigners whom the Church condemns, but whom the government must protect.

a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) 142 It is possible..for acatholics to pray with catholics catholically.

1988 M. J. Levy Governance & Grievance i. 21 This religious homogeneity was graphically underscored by the response to Joseph II's 1781 Toleration Patent granting civil rights and limited rights of public worship to Acatholics (that is, Lutherans, Calvinists, and Greek Orthodox).

1809 F. Plowden Hist. Ireland: Henry II to Union I. 120 Not a single writer..foreign or native, catholic or acatholic.

1820 J. Milner Suppl. Mem. Eng. Catholics ii. 132 To prevent the virtual choice of a Catholic Bishop by an A-Catholic Ministry.

1891 A. J. Harrison Probl. Christianity & Scepticism xiv. 269 If Christians were never enamoured of Acatholic or even Anti~catholic interpretations, the Freethinker would have little success.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 525/1 The fourth provincial synod of Westminster, which legislated on ‘acatholic’ universities.

1982 J. L. Heilbron Elem. Early Mod. Physics ii. 135 The local bishop led the attack against tradition; in 1745 he recommended the texts of the ‘acatholic’ Wolff.

2004 D. Simonis Venice (ed. 3) 90/2 Among those pushing up daisies here are Ezra Pound, Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky. Look for their graves in the northeast sector of the island (signposted); they are in the ‘acatholic’ (read Protestant and Orthodox) sections.

1872 Amer. Church Rev. Apr. 305 The Anglican Church stands midway between Acatholicism, in the broad, unfenced land of ‘Dissent’, and Romanism, which is not Hypercatholicism, but only another kind of Acatholicism.

1891 A. J. Harrison Probl. Christianity & Scepticism xv. 272 (heading) Acatholicism.

1923 Jrnl. Relig. 3 616 The most representative and famed of the Bohemian Protestant parties, conserving the best traditions of the very beginnings of the pre-Reformation acatholicism.