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29 words match “ANGLIC”

ANGLIC a.
Anglian.
ANGLICAN a. 4 definitions
especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
ANGLICANISM n. 3 definitions
Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
ANGLICE adv.
In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.
ANGLICIFY v.
To anglicize. [R.]
ANGLICISM n. 2 definitions
An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.
ANGLICITY n.
The state or quality of being English.
ANGLICIZATION n.
The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
ANGLICIZE v.
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
PAN-ANGLICAN a.
ss strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
ANGLIFY v.
To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.
ANGLO-CATHOLIC a.
Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
ANTECOMMUNION n.
A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
ARPENTATOR n.
The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]
BARBARIZE v.
bit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.
BISHOP n.
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [inf…
DENARY n.
A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.
DISCIPLINE n.
A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
DOUANIER n.
An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]
ENGLISH v.
To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.
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