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adjective

Anglican adj.

English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

noun

Anglican n.

A member of the Church of England. "Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists."

In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.

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Etymology of 'Anglican'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Anglican" Quotes from Famous Books

... who did not see Anglican journals. He added vaguely, "The Pope sent a telegram...." For when people spoke to him of Church life, he said "the Pope" mechanically; it was his ...

— Mystery at Geneva - An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings • Rose Macaulay

... new to it all, they are shocked to see the snuff taken over the heads and wooden sabots of the devout country-folk, whose ancestors knelt on the same hard stone centuries ago, and prayed for great harvests that never came, and to avert lean years that very often did. The Anglican cannot understand the real aboriginal Papist. Sally's mother was puzzled when she saw an old, old kneeling figure, toothless and parchment-skinned, on whose rosary a pinch of snuff ut supra descended, shake it off the bead in evidence, and get ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... Weems' Life of General Francis Marion [Mason Locke Weems, American (Maryland) author & Anglican priest. ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... was; never spoken of, except once, between him and her! It puzzled him often; for he knew very well that Eugenie was no follower of things received. She had been a friend of Renan and of Taine in her French days; and he, who was a Gallic with a leaning to the Anglican Church, had sometimes guessed with discomfort that Eugenie was in truth what his Low Church wife called a 'free-thinker.' She never spoke of her opinions, directly, even to him. But the books she ordered from Paris, or Germany, and every now and ...

— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... be found with them. While, however, every commonplace motive pointed so directly towards a career of subserviency to the ruling class among the laity, it could not be expected that they should take a lofty view of their profession. The Anglican clergy were not like the Irish priesthood, in close sympathy with the peasantry, or like the Scottish ministers, the organs of strong convictions spreading through the great mass of the middle and lower classes. A man of energy, who took his faith seriously, was, like the Evangelical clergy, ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

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