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One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

en in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

pecially one of an unfavorable nature. My sentence is for open war. Milton. That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury.

A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther).

To show; to display; to recommend; to set off. I could set out that best side of Luther. Atterbury.

t tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak.

hing may be stretched. Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind. Atterbury. This is the utmost stretch that nature can. Granville.

r and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also Ubiquitist, Ubiquitary.

The doctrine, as formulated by Luther, that Christ's glorified body is omnipresent.