Definition of Anglo-catholic

1. Adjective. Supporting the Anglican Church.

Partainyms: Anglican Church

Definition of Anglo-catholic

1. Noun. A member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anglo-catholic

Anglo-Catholics
Anglo-Celtic Isles
Anglo-French
Anglo-Frisian
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indians
Anglo-Jewish
Anglo-Latin
Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Normans
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon America
Anglo-Saxon deity
Anglo-Saxondom
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-catholic (current term)
Anglocentric
Anglocentrically
Anglocentrism
Anglodom
Anglomania
Anglomaniac
Anglomaniacs
Anglomanias
Anglophile
Anglophiles
Anglophilia
Anglophilic
Anglophobe
Anglophobes

Literary usage of Anglo-catholic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bibliotheca Sacra by Dallas Theological Seminary (1890)
"ONE of the most interesting and peculiar phenomena of ecclesiastical history may be observed in -the later fortunes of the Oxford Anglo-Catholic movement. ..."

2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"CHAPTER VIII CHURCH AND LETTERS THE Oxford,1 or Tractarian, or Puseyite, or Anglo-Catholic, or High Church movement, and the Anglo-Roman movement that ..."

3. Church Unity: Studies of Its Most Important Problems by Charles Augustus Briggs (1909)
"THE Anglo-catholic AND PURITAN PARTIES The present crisis is due to the evolution of the Anglo- Catholic party especially under the impulses of the Oxford ..."

4. The History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Restoration by Francis Charles Montague (1907)
"In opposition to the puritans there had arisen a party which they termed Armin- ian and which in England may be termed Anglo-catholic. ..."

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