| 单词 |
Presbyterianize |
| 释义 |
Presbyˈterianize, v.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. trans. To make Presbyterian; to organize according to the Presbyterian system.
b. intr. To act as a Presbyterian, or in a way tending towards the Presbyterian system or doctrine. Hence Presbyˈterianized ppl. a.; Presbyˈterianizing ppl. a.
a1843Southey Com.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 192/1 Cromwell's policy with the Independents, setting them to prepare a Confession of faith,—which would, ipso facto, have Presbyterianized them. c1878Pusey in Liddon Life (1897) IV. xiii. 315 Our Bishops seem paralyzed by our Presbyterianizing Archbishop of Canterbury. 1885Ch. Q. Rev. Jan. 494 The reaction from the unwise step of Archbishop Laud led them [Scottish Episcopalians] to all but Presbyterianize their worship at the..restoration..in 1660. 1886Brodrick Hist. Univ. Oxford 145 These bodies were equally resolved to Presbyterianise the University. 1889Drysdale Hist. Presbyt. in Eng. 592 The need of..submitting to some more Presbyterianized development. |
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