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Altitudinarian
Altitudinarian Al`ti*tu`di*na"ri*an, a.
Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] --Coleridge.
Attitudinarian
Attitudinarian At`ti*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.
Attitudinarianism
Attitudinarianism At`ti*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism, n.
A practicing of attitudes; posture making.
Latitudinarian
Latitudinarian Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, a. [Cf. F.
latitudinaire.]
1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of
belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely
from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian
divines; latitudinarian theology.
Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects.
--Allibone.
3. Lax in moral or religious principles.
Latitudinarian
Latitudinarian Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by
precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges
freedom in thinking.
2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in
the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions
in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of
the church than generally prevailed.
They were called ``men of latitude;' and upon this,
men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name
of latitudinarians. --Bp. Burnet.
3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict
principles of orthodoxy.
Latitudinarianism
Latitudinarianism Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism, n.
A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in
matters pertaining to religious belief.
Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. --De
Quincey.
He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest
latitudinarianism of opinion. --J. S.
Harford.
Platitudinarian
Platitudinarian Plat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid
truisms. ``A political platitudinarian.' --G. Eliot.
Plenitudinarian
Plenitudinarian Plen`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
A plenist.
Valetudinarian
Valetudinarian Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking
to recover health.
Valetudinarians must live where they can command and
scold. --Swift.
Valetudinarianism
Valetudinarianism Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism, n.
The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health;
infirmity.
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