Meaning of Canterburian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Laudian.
2. A student or faculty member at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Examples

“Notwithstanding, when a Bishops Set was their erected for the daunting of the Puritan faction, when the Liturgie was in that place to be established, and grounds to be layed fro the propagating of the Canterburian Dictates through our Kingdome, No excues of health, or corruption of the aire of Edenburgh, was hard: but the Archbishops letter incontinent obeyed, and the Episcopall See with a place in the secret Counsell and Exchequer very readily imbraced; The Kings favour, by his great Patrones procurement, still increasing till death did arriagne him before his heavenly Judge.”

“We do not refer to you Episcopalians as Canterburians.”

“After cataloguing all the Canterburians' 'tyrannical maxims', Baillie triumphantly concluded by exposing Laud's alleged hypocrisy, quoting a passage from the archbishop's Conference with the Jesuit Fisher (1639) wherein Laud had argued that 'the Statute Lawes which must bind all the Subjects, cannot be made but in, and by Parliament: the supreme Magistrate in the civill state, may not abrogate Lwes made in Parliament.'”

“Until early March of 1833, Canterburians voiced no displeasure with their new school;.”

“But the Canterburians had gone wild with the news. They had rung bells, fired cannon and marched Miss Crandall off to jail, putting her in a cell that had just been vacated by a condemned murderer who had been hanged.”

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