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/ˈæŋgləkən/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Anglican" Quotes from Famous Books

... better title than any other to be revered as the father of the Anglican church, showed himself during the life of Henry the most cautious and complaisant of reformers. Aware that any rashness or precipitation on the part of the favorers of new opinions might expose them to all the fury of persecution from a prince so dogmatical and violent, he ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... French, and Germans blent together in convivial Babel; and flasks of old Montagner in another. Palmy, at this period, wore an archdeacon's hat, and smoked a churchwarden's pipe; and neither were his own, nor did he derive anything ecclesiastical or Anglican from the association. Late in the morning we must sally forth, they said, and roam the town. For it is the custom here on New Year's night to greet acquaintances, and ask for hospitality, and no one may deny ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... of England'—it must be understood that the relations between the Anglican and the Romish clergy in Trinidad are, as far as I have seen, friendly and tolerant—' does good work among its coloured members. But it does so by speaking, as we speak, with authority. It, too, finds ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... Canterbury Tales. In order to a proper intelligence of these, let us look for a moment at the ecclesiastical condition of England at that time. Connected with much in doctrine and ritual worthy to be retained, and, indeed, still retained in the articles and liturgy of the Anglican Church, there was much, the growth of ignorance and neglect, to be reformed. The Church of England had never had a real affinity with Rome. The gorgeous and sensual ceremonies which, in the indolent airs of the Mediterranean, were imposing and attractive, ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... This bold expression of opinion in Massachusetts should be studied by the historian of those times in connection with the equally emphatic revolutionary argument advanced by Patrick Henry of Virginia, two years later, against the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Anglican clergy and the right of the king to veto legislation of the colony. Though the prerogative of the crown was thus directly called into question in a Virginia court, the British government did not take a determined stand on the undoubted ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

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