Protestant

Orangeman

One of a secret society organized in the north of Ireland in 1795 the professed objects of which are the defense of the reigning sovereign of Great Britain the support of the Protestant religion the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom etc so called in honor of William Prince of Orange who became William III of England...

Pietist

One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling Also used adjectively...

Camisard

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV after the revocation of the edict of Nates so called from the peasants smock camise which they wore...

Episcopalian

Pertaining to bishops or government by bishops episcopal specifically of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church...

Huguenot

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century...

Pan Anglican

Belonging to or representing the whole Church of England used less strictly to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States as the Pan Anglican Conference at Lambeth in 1888...

Westminster confession

Westminster confession, a document containing a statement of religious doctrine drawn up at a conference of British and Continental Protestant divines at Westminster in the year 1643, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church....

Dissenters

Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed dissenters to assemble for religious worship according to their own forms in places of meeting duly certified; as to such places, see now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 81, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 17, 27. The (English) Dissenters Chapels Act, 1844 (see that title), provided for meeting-houses; and the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), commonly called (English) Peto's Act, amended by the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees andthe title to lands purcha...

Unitarians

Unitarians, Protestant Dissenters who do not hold the doctrine of the Trinity. They were excepted from the benefit of the Toleration Act until 1813, when the Act 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, repealed the in capacities and penalties imposed by earlier statutes. The holding of Unitarian opinions was no offence at Common Law: see Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&Fin 355 (Lady Hewley's Charities). Trusts for the benefit of Unitarians are accordingly enforceable [Shrewsbury v. Hornby, (1846) 5 Ha 406; Re Barnett, (1860) 29 LJ Ch 871; Re Wall, (1889) 42 Ch D 510]. See DISSENTERS....

One who protests originally applied to those who adhered to Luther and protested against or made a solemn declaration of dissent from a decree of the Emperor Charles V and the Diet of Spires in 1529 against the Reformers and appealed to a general council now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church...

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