单词 | tract-writer |
释义 | > as lemmasTract-writer c. attributive and in other combinations, as (in sense 3) tract-distributing adj., tract distribution, tract-led adj., tract society; (in sense 3b, with capital T) Tract divine, Tract doctrine, Tract man, Tract movement, Tract system, Tract-writer. ΚΠ 1760 Pratt in J. Adams Wks. (1850) II. 97 I should be very sorry to have the Tract Society dissolved. 1806 W. L. Bowles Banwell Hill ii. 360 The tract-led Miss, Who trots to every Bethel club. 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master viii. Argt. 18 Let them, if they perceive impiety, Transmit it to the Tract Society. 1841 S. Wilberforce Let. 30 Mar. in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. vi. 217 You know my dread of the ‘Tract’ doctrine of Reserve. 1843 Christian Lady's Mag. 20 211 The opinions of Oxford-tract men..upon the divine efficacy of Sacraments. 1843 Christian Lady's Mag. 20 271 The pernicious errors broached.., by the Tract-writers of Oxford. 1846 D. Wilson Exp. Lect. Col. ii. 20 (note) The Tract divines add to the three essentials required in the XIXth article a fourth. 1869 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 43 Tract-distributors and pick-pockets. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) In this sense the word is frequently adjectivally used; as, tract society,..tract distribution, etc. 1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. xii. 414 It was natural for the Tract-writers to honour the Fathers of the Church. < as lemmas |
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