Meaning of Canterburian | Babel Free
Definitions
- Synonym of Laudian.
- 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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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