† soularyadj.n.
Obsolete. rare.
A. adj.
Of or relating to the theory of the soul's separate existence after the death of the body. Also: of or relating to the soul.Chiefly in the work of Richard Overton (died 1663).
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1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie iii. 52 I hope the Soulary Champions, the Priests of the Church of England, may be ashamed longer to assert..the body to be but the souls instrument.
1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie v. 89 From this place the Resurrection of the body before the day of Judgment..may better be proved, then such a present soularie enterance into Heaven or Hell.
1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 561 A clarissimation or an illustriorating of him that has soulary virtue and professional merit.
B. n.
A person who holds the soulary theory.Only in or with reference to Overton.
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1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vi. 53 All this while we have had to doe with this immortall Soule, [which] we cannot find, or the Soularies tell what it is.
a1787 F. Blackburne in Wks. (1804) III. 127 R. O. could not but know, that there were soularies as he calls them, who were not of the church of England, and who were no better friends to archbishop Laud than himself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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