Cisalpines

Noun

Cisalpine (plural Cisalpines)

1. (historical) Synonym of Gallican (“an adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism”).

   Synonyms:

   Gallican

2. (UK, historical) In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.
   • Some of the Cisalpines carried their opposition to the monastic orders so far as to be very unfriendly to the French émigrées nuns, for whose expulsion from England Sir J. Mildmay introduced a Bill in 1800.1897, Wilfrid Ward, The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 203, note 1

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