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Henrician en · ADJ

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Hēnrīciānus, from Hēnrīcus (“Henry”) + -iānus (“relating to”).

Meanings

1. Relating to someone named Henry, especially a king or his reign; supporting or on the side of Henry.
   • With the recovery of religion in recent years more space became necessary; sometimes the great screens were removed, sometimes the services themselves were transferred to the nave, but in no single instance, I believe, was a screen erected in post-Henrician times as W. E. P. states, and for the purpose he has indicated. 1911 July 20, R. A. Cram, “Views on English Gohic. New Cathedral Architect of St. John the Divine Denies Roman Originals.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • The king seals his faith in Cranmer with what is piously not quite an oath (a more Henrician than Protestant one): 'God's blest mother, | I swear he is true-hearted' (154–5). 2016, John Kerrigan, Shakespeare's Binding Language, page 412:
   • Their reasons were many, but among them would surely have figured a doubt about the Henrician church, both in its theology and in its changes to the established pattern of clerical life. 1981, Margaret Bowker, The Henrician Reformation: The Diocese of Lincoln Under John Longland 1521-1547, page 137:
   • The reader who is approaching for the first time the Henrician period, that compost heap for our modern political and religious institutions, will find this book as complete and useful a compilation of all the standing scholarship as he could wish. 1949 August 14, Mary M. Ahern, “England’s Henrician Period […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • He worked loyally for Edward VI, and Elizabeth for as long as he was allowed to. He was more Henrician than Gardiner,[…]. 1964, Timothy Francis Shirley, Thomas Thirlby: Tudor Bishop, page 78:
2. Relating to someone named Henry, especially a king or his reign; supporting or on the side of Henry. ▸ Of or relating to 12th-century heresiarch Henry of Lausanne and his heretical doctrines.

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most Henrician	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Henrician en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Hēnrīciānus, from Hēnrīcus (“Henry”) + -iānus (“relating to”).

Meanings

1. A supporter or follower of someone named Henry, especially a king.
   • Contemporary with St. Bernard’s mission to Languedoc is a letter addressed to him by Evervin, Provost of Steinfeld, imploring his aid against heretics recently discovered at Cologne—some Manichseans and others, evidently Henricians, who had betrayed themselves by their mutual quarrels. These Henricians boasted that their sect was numerously scattered throughout all the lands of Christendom, and their zeal is shown by an allusion to those among their number who perished at the stake. 1887, Henry Charles Lea, “Heresy”, in A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 72:
   • The Petrobrusians and the Henricians, of whom we have only very meagre information, are represented by their opponents as rejecting infant baptism, insisting on believers’ baptism, and repudiating with the utmost vehemence all extra-biblical forms and ceremonies and all paganizing superstitions that had found place in the dominant form of Christianity. 1901, A[lbert] H[enry] Newman, “Baptists and Mediæval Evangelicals”, in A. H. Newman, editor, A Century of Baptist Achievement, Philadephia, Pa.: American Baptist Publication Society, →OCLC, chapter I (A Survey of Baptist History to 1801), pages 2–3:
   • The orthodoxy of the Anglican Church under Henry VIII was largely due to the Henricians. In the discussions which preceded the issue of the doctrinal formularies they championed Catholic doctrine against the advanced party. 1941, G[ustave] Constant, translated by E[dward] I[ngram] Watkin, “The Church of England at the Accession of Edward VI (1547)”, in The Reformation in England, volume II (Introduction of the Reformation into England, Edward VI (1547–1553)), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 16:

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Henricians	Number=Plur		lexicographic