Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers of the church, charged with preserving order and repressing heresy. The imposition of hands, upon which so much stress is often laid, was a Jewish custom used in inaugurating both civil and religious officers. The universal verdict of scholars is that episcopacy arose from presbytery. In the early anglican church no effort was made to put the biship on a higher level than the rest of the priesthood, and it was even admitted that the church had the right to abolish bishop if expedient. It was only in later times that that tyrannical prelacy was established, to escape which...
...Anglican bishops have recently proposed a union with the other evangelical churches, but they make the acception of episcopacy a condition of fellowship. Although many are willing to accept episcopacy as a means of diminshing sectarianism, yet it is too much to admit that it is an essential of Christianity...
...English for the retention of existing rights, had excluded almost all change, even in directions in which such change was urgently required. Until of late both universities had in great measure retained their character as schools for the clergy, formerly of the Roman and now of the Anglican church, whose instruction laymen might also share in so far as it could serve the general education of the mind; they were subjected to such a control and mode of life as was formerly considered to be good for young priests. They lived, as they still live, in college, under the superintendence...
...college which he had entered only a few hours before with all his accustomed dignity. The next morning three of the rioters were rusticated, but all who were engaged in the riot begged that they might share the same fate, because they were all equally guilty. The riot was Anglican rather than Protestant in its character; was deliberately planned by English high church men, and was intended to rebuke the chief lay representative of the Roman propaganda in the university...
...Philological Society's dictionary have issued a third list of words (from allodial to apophysal), on which more quotations are desired. From this list it appears that, as far as now known, the word allopath was first used in 1842; alluvial in 1802; Americanism and anecdotal in 1870; anglican in 1827; analogue in 1816; antagonize in 1818; aplomb in 1849; anonymuncale in 1869, and antitheistic in 1881. It is announced that the dictionary will have 8,400 pages in 6 vol. 4 to., and that finally a supplement will appear with the letter Z, containing all words omitted previously...