Henrician

Henrician adjective: relating to someone named Henry, especially a king or his reign; supporting or on the side of Henry.

Adjective

Henrician (comparative more Henrician, superlative most Henrician)

Relating to someone named Henry, especially a king or his reign; supporting or on the side of Henry.
- With the recovery of religion in recent years more space became necessary; sometimes the great screens were removed, sometimes the services themselves were transferred to the nave, but in no single instance, I believe, was a screen erected in post-Henrician times as W. E. P. states, and for the...1911 July 20, R. A. Cram, “Views on English Gohic. New Cathedral Architect of St. John the Divine Denies Roman Originals.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
- The reader who is approaching for the first time the Henrician period, that compost heap for our modern political and religious institutions, will find this book as complete and useful a compilation of all the standing scholarship as he could wish.1949 August 14, Mary M. Ahern, “England’s Henrician Period […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
1. Of or relating to 12th-century heresiarch Henry of Lausanne and his heretical doctrines.

Henrician (plural Henricians)

A supporter or follower of someone named Henry, especially a king.
- Contemporary with St. Bernard’s mission to Languedoc is a letter addressed to him by Evervin, Provost of Steinfeld, imploring his aid against heretics recently discovered at Cologne—some Manichseans and others, evidently Henricians, who had betrayed themselves by their mutual quarrels. These...1887, Henry Charles Lea, “Heresy”, in A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 72
- The Petrobrusians and the Henricians, of whom we have only very meagre information, are represented by their opponents as rejecting infant baptism, insisting on believers’ baptism, and repudiating with the utmost vehemence all extra-biblical forms and ceremonies and all paganizing superstitions...1901, A[lbert] H[enry] Newman, “Baptists and Mediæval Evangelicals”, in A. H. Newman, editor, A Century of Baptist Achievement, Philadephia, Pa.: American Baptist Publication Society, →OCLC, chapter...

He was more Henrician than Gardiner,[…].1964, Timothy Francis Shirley, Thomas Thirlby: Tudor Bishop, page 78:
Their reasons were many, but among them would surely have figured a doubt about the Henrician church, both in its theology and in its changes to the established pattern of clerical life.1981, Margaret Bowker, The Henrician Reformation: The Diocese of Lincoln Under John Longland 1521-1547, page 137:
The king seals his faith in Cranmer with what is piously not quite an oath (a more Henrician than Protestant one): 'God's blest mother, | I swear he is true-hearted' (154–5).2016, John Kerrigan, Shakespeare's Binding Language, page 412:
These Henricians boasted that their sect was numerously scattered throughout all the lands of Christendom, and their zeal is shown by an allusion to those among their number who perished at the stake.1887, Henry Charles Lea, “Heresy”, in A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]...

Learned borrowing from Latin Hēnrīciānus, from Hēnrīcus (“Henry”) + -iānus (“relating to”).

What does Henrician mean?: Henrician means relating to someone named Henry, especially a king or his reign; supporting or on the side of Henry.
How do you use Henrician in a sentence?: He was more Henrician than Gardiner,[…].
What part of speech is Henrician?: Henrician can be an adjective or a noun.

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