Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or characteristic of Gallicanism.
- adj. Gallic.
- n. A supporter of Gallicanism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Gaul or France.
- Specifically, pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church in France. See Gallicanism.
- n. In Roman Catholic theology, one who holds Gallican doctrines. See Gallicanism.
Wiktionary
- n. An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French.
- n. An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or characteristic of Gallicanism
Examples
“We may accept as certain that Aquileia had from the time of the formation of separate rites (fourth century) its own use, that this use was not the same as that of Rome, that probably it was one more variant of the large group of Western Rites, connected by (Eastern?) origin, which we call Gallican, that it was probably really related to the old Milanese Rite and perhaps still more to that of Ravenna.”
“It should be noted that the name Gallican has also been applied to two other uses: (1) a French use introduced by the Normans into”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Henry might call a Gallican synod, instead of allowing the French ecclesiastics to attend, unless the Lutherans were also represented.”
“The latter has been called Gallican and attributed to the Province of”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“In Western Europe the first attempt to give a symbolical meaning to the vestments of the Mass is found in what is called the Gallican explanation of the”
“From these four types -- of Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and the so-called Gallican Rite -- all liturgies still used are derived.”
“Liturgies are all modifications of a common type; they may all be classed together as forms of what is known as the Gallican Rite.”
“What are called Gallican ideas are ever sprouting up like noxious weeds; there is a malcontent”
“a basis, he revised the Psalter more carefully and this recension, called the Gallican Psalter from becoming current in Gaul, is now read in the Breviary and in the Vulgate.”
“(A.D. 383), known as the Roman, is still used at St Peter's in Rome, but the "Gallican," thanks especially to St Gregory of Tours, who introduced it into Gaul in the 6th century, has ousted it everywhere else.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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