pseudo-Catholicn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkaθ(ə)lɪk/,

/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkaθl̩ɪk/, U.S.

/ˌsudoʊˈkæθ(ə)lɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s pseudo-catholike, 1600s pseudo-catholick, 1600s pseudo-Chatholike, 1800s– pseudo-catholic, 1800s– pseudo-Catholic.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, catholic n.

Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + catholic n., after post-classical Latin pseudocatholicus, noun (a1564), Middle French, French pseudo-catholique, adjective (1594; now rare).Compare also the following example of the post-classical Latin word in a British source:1580 W. Fulke Retentiue 7 Humfrey in calling you pseudocatholici, false Catholikes, sheweth what Catholikes he meaneth you to be.

A. n.

A pretended Catholic; one who is falsely called (or lays false claim to being) a Catholic.Sometimes (esp. in early use) a hostile term for a Roman Catholic.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > false

pseudo-Catholic1583

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xxii. 518 You are deceiued in aduouching this matter of your owne pseudocatholikes, when this Bishop, not departing from your reading, yet expoundeth this text according to the Hebrewe.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 106 The whole rout of Pseudo-catholikes.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. x. 17) Such were the Primitive Persecutours, and such are the Pseudo-Catholicks of these times.

1682 in G. Vernon Life Heylyn Ep. Ded. sig. A4 They are Pseudo-Protestants, as Papists are Pseudo-Catholicks.

1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker Disputation Holy Script. 480 Such are the popish pseudo-catholics, who have derived their catholic errors not from the scriptures, but from the inventions of men.

1890 Jewish Q. Rev. 2 483 In the course of time many even of these pseudo-Catholics took refuge by means of emigration from the coercion practised against them.

1938 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 10 210 The pseudo-Catholics of the Saint-Simonian cult.

1996 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 29 May a11/4 My advice to these pseudo-Catholics is: Get out of a church you so obviously detest.

B. adj.

Falsely or erroneously called or claiming to be Catholic.

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RomanisheOE

Laterana1400

Romana1500

papistical1527

popish1528

antichristian1532

pontifical1533

Babylonical1535

papish1538

Romish1538

papistic1545

west1549

catholic1554

mass-monging1556

western1562

Latin1564

Babylonian1567

Babylonish1570

Romish Catholic?1570

Romanist1572

Roman Catholic1587

papala1593

pseudo-catholical1601

Babylonic1602

pseudo-Catholic1605

Romist1605

Romified1609

Babelish1610

papizing1612

pontifician1612

pontificial1614

Romulean1615

papized1639

Romanistical1646

Romanical1664

papagan1679

popish-like1689

Anglo-Roman1766

papicolar1811

Romanistic1829

pre-Reformation1855

papalistic1861

papalized1879

1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 413 The pseudocatholike papists.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. 752 Not written in hatred of their Nation, because they are Spaniards, but of their Pseudo-chatholike Religion.

1829 Times 20 Jan. 3/5 The Government may safely continue pursuing its system, without regard to the intrigues of a pseudo-liberal or a pseudo-Catholic party.

1861 Times 9 Nov. 8/3 Many in this country were led to mistake a partial and temporary ebullition of pseudo-Catholic sentiment for a grand Romanist reaction.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 2/3 The..minority who wish to turn the Church of England into a pseudo-Catholic sect.

1981 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 53 569 The pagan and racist excesses of a Ludendorf were deplored, as was the pseudo-Catholic integralism of Belgium's Degrelle.

2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 May c5 Shot through with pseudo-Catholic mysticism..the film would be insufferable if it weren't for the total sincerity and commitment of its players.

Derivatives

† pseudo-catholical adj. Obsolete

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