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To agree with or teach the doctrines of Puritans to conform to the practice of Puritans...
Puritan
One who in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts opposed traditional and formal usages and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law originally a term of reproach The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England...
Puritanic
Of or pertaining to the Puritans or to their doctrines and practice...
Puritanically
In a puritanical manner...
Puritanism
The doctrines notions or practice of Puritans...
Puritans
Puritans. See DISSENTERS....
blue law
blue law [blue puritanical] : a statute regulating work, commerce, and amusements on Sunday NOTE: Existing blue laws derive from the numerous extremely rigorous laws designed to regulate morals and conduct that were enacted in colonial New England. ...
Roundhead
A nickname for a Puritan See Roundheads the in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction...
Five-mile Act
Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Lollardy
Lollardy [fr. lullen, lollen, or lallen, Old Germ., to sing with a low voice; and hard, from the singing of funeral dirges, Mosh.], a vulgar term of reproach brought from Belgium an given to the early Protestants (the followers of Wycliffe) as far back as the reign of Edward III. the Lollards closely resembled the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, Stow's Annals, 425...
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