Calvinisticaladj.
= Calvinistic adj.; of the nature of, or pertaining to, Calvinism.
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Geneva1559
Genevian1565
Calvinian1566
Calvinistical1606
Calvinish1637
Huguenot1682
Calvinistic1820
Calvinized1824
Genevan1853
Huguenotic1897
1606 W. Crashaw Falsificationum Romanarum 78 Is not such a Caluinisticall sentence worthy to be razed out for euer?
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 139 His theological opinions are said to have been first calvinistical.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. ii. 46 This Calvinistical colonel. View more context for this quotation
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iv. xii. 322 Mrs. Avenel, in an awfully stiff, clean, Calvinistical cap.
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Calviˈnistically adv.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Calvinism > [adverb]
Calvinistically1673
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 364 The Doctrine of Free-will is laid down as Calvinistically as one could wish for.
1832 Fraser's Mag. XLVI. 588 Do not be so Calvinistically severe on their little amusements.
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