单词 | romanism |
释义 | Romanismn. 1. The Roman Catholic religion or doctrines; support for or adherence to these; Roman Catholicism. Frequently depreciative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [noun] RomeeOE Babylon1530 popishness1531 popery?1536 popistry?1542 papistry1543 mass-monging1552 antichristianity1555 antichristianism1588 Babel1599 papacy1599 Romanism1603 poping1608 Babylonism1610 Catholicism1613 Romanality1637 catholicship1653 Romishness1653 Roman Catholicism1662 Roman Catholicity1806 catholicity1830 popism1841 old religion1934 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded Ep. sig. A3 What by Atheisme and Romanisme, ouer-much spreading of late yeeres, our Iob was brought welny to the Ash-heape. 1644 J. Boden Alarme beat vp in Sion 26 How are we here also striking in with Rome & Romanisme, who would be thought the onely Protestants of the world? 1660 J. Tombes (title) Romanism discussed. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 249 Jesuitical Creeks and Corners of Superstitious Romanism. 1770 J. Andrews Acct. Char. & Manners French II. lv. 183 Where, notwithstanding Romanism prevails, it is not received in that credulous Latitude in which Italy, Spain and Portugal as yet admit it. 1837 R. Whately (title) Errors of Romanism. 1858 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 59 Romanism under the Jesuits became a different thing from what it had been before. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 23 145 The sin which is charged to Romanism may be recharged some day to Protestantism. 1969 G. Friel Grace & Miss Partridge ii. 23 Ah well, you must beware of the errors of Romanism... Faith in Christ is sufficient for salvation. 2000 L. McTaggart Being Catholic Today xvi. 138 There are Catholics who think they can live in a little fortress of safe Romanism. 2. a. A feature, usage, etc., characteristic of or deriving from the culture or language of ancient Rome. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > classical and neo-classical > feature of Romanism1827 1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 606/1 This we think a Romanism, injurious to the simple dignity of a pediment. 1845 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 244/2 They..asserted..that..some of the usages and formulæ which they had derived from their Roman masters must have descended to ourselves, but no such Romanisms have we ever found. 1893 Polit. Sci. Q. 8 661 He misreads the evidence incidentally disclosed even by the jurists whose servile Romanisms he follows. 1949 J. C. Snow tr. M. Hélin Hist. Medieval Lat. Lit. 66 It is very hazardous to draw on the argument of so-called Romanisms or Germanisms which are found throughout medieval Latin. 1989 S. F. Starr Southern Comfort i. 19/2 Whether Lafon derived his planning ideas from other American or European urban schemes or borrowed them directly from the grandiose Romanisms of Napoleon. 2002 Perspect. Polit. Sci. 31 139 They will seek refuge and nourishment in the German language, a language they henceforth want purged of Gallicisms, or Romanisms. b. The institutions of ancient Rome; the spirit or ideals of the ancient Roman world; Roman sway or influence; = Romanity n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > characteristic spirit or ethos > specific Normanism1647 Romanity1789 Romanism1861 American Way1883 romanitas1918 romanità1927 1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome 262 As this meant the entire extinction of Romanism beyond the Alps, the last Cæsars held it [sc. Auvergne] in a desperate grasp. 1877 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. I. 461/2 The coronation of Charles..symbolise[s] the recognition by Romanism of the victory of Teutonism. 1940 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 1 37 A final victory of Hellenism and Romanism in the whole of the Hellenistic East..seemed assured. 1990 Greece & Rome 37 194 The spokesman for the Augustan conception of Romanism should not be a ‘warmed-up’ Ennius. c. Partiality for the (esp. ancient) Romans; tendency towards, liking for, or imitation of what is Roman; (sometimes) acceptance of Roman law. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > towards specific culture, etc. Romanism1879 1879 W. T. Arnold Rom. Syst. Provinc. Admin. iii. 122 In the first century..the prestige of Augustus' example was so great that one of the signs of a ‘good’ emperor was this obsolete and preposterous Romanism. 1897 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 152 A code of the common law, then, will buttress our ancient usages against the assaults of the modern Romanism. 1929 Cambr. Medieval Hist. VI. xii. 420 In spite of the lively opposition to Romanism..Roman law gradually assumed greater importance. 1970 Art Bull. 52 316/1 The architect Giovanni Battista Covo and the painter Lorenzo Leonbruno, both thrust aside under the grandiose Romanism of Federigo II. 1996 J. Whyte Skystone 326 You talk of your Romanism, but you are really no more Roman than Meric. Your loyalty is to this place, this land, these people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1603 |
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