quinquarticularadj.
/ˌkwɪŋkwɑːˈtɪkjʊlə/, U.S. /ˌkwɪŋˌkwɑrˈtɪkjələr/ Christian Church. rare.
Relating to or concerning the five articles of doctrine enunciated by the Arminian Remonstrants, which were repudiated by the Calvinists at the Synod of Dort in 1618.
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1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin App. 142 Because Doctor Heylin hath unanswerably spoken to the Historical part, both in his Certamen Epistolare..and in his Quinquarticular History.., I shall not therefore say more..than is omitted by Doctor Heylin.
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 2 Our Subject must be the unhappy Quinquarticular Controversie.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 53 The troubles complained of by the Dutch deputies related to what was called the quinquarticular controversy.
1834 F. W. Faber Lett. (1869) 17 The quinquarticular doctrines of the Synod of Dort.
1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. x. 348 One long versed in the intricacies of these quinquarticular disputes.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIV. 77/1 This, as he confesses, had no great effect, the quinquarticular controversy beginning now to rage with much fierceness in England.
1988 Hist. Jrnl. 31 81 The churchmen were agreed in rejecting..the whole ‘quinquarticular’ frame of reference.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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