Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a sect of religious reformers in England who were followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a semi-monastic society for the care of the sick and the burial of the dead, which originated at Antwerp about 1300. Also called Cellite.
- n. One of the English followers of Wyclif, adherents of a wide-spread movement, partly political and socialistic, and in some respects anticipating Protestantism and Puritanism, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They were also called
Bible men , from their reverence for the Bible. They differed on some points both among themselves and from Wyclif, but in the main condemned the use of images in churches, pilgrimages to the tombs of saints, the temporal lordship of the clergy, the hierarchical organization, papal authority, religious orders, ecclesiastical decorations, the ceremony of the mass, the doctrine of transubstantiation, waging of wars, and capital punishment. Some of them engaged in seditious proceedings, and they were severely persecuted for more than a hundred years, especially after the adoption of a special statute (“De hæretico comburendo”) against them in 1401. Lollards were very numerous at the close of the fourteenth century, and perhaps formed later part of the Lancastrian party in the Wars of the Roses. - n. One who lolls; an idler.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
- n. One of the followers of Wyclif in England.
Etymologies
- Late Latin Lollardi, Lullardi, from Walter Lolhardus, a German. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Middle Dutch Lollaerd, mumbler, mutterer, heretic, from lollen, doze, to mumble. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“From _lolium_ the term Lollard given in reproach to the Waldenses, and the followers of Wickliffe, indicated that they were pernicious weeds choking and destroying the pure wheat of the gospel.”
“The spot of execution was called Lollard's pit, without Bishopsgate, at Norwich.”
“Elsewhere John is called a Lollard and accused of "heretycall langage," and he is finally poisoned by a monk of Swinestead.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“I speak of that faith which your great father Salisbury and many of the House of York were believed to favour, -- that faith which is called the Lollard, and the oppression of which, more than aught else, lost to Lancaster the hearts of England.”
“High, under the sanguinary despotism of popish Mary; and the spot where they suffered, called the Lollard's pit, lies just outside the town, over Bishop's bridge, having a circular excavation against the side of”
“The first Wiclifite translation was hasty and rather rough, and it was soon revised and bettered by a certain John Purvey, one of the 'Lollard' priests.”
“In the fourteenth century the word "Lollard" was used in a very extended sense.”
“My Masters degree from Yale included a heavy focus on the writings of Piers Plowman and associated "Lollard" literature, so it was a natural fit for me to present on Julian given her historical and geographical context.”
“It is, perhaps, not without significance that the poor parson in the _Canterbury Tales_, the only one of his ecclesiastical pilgrims whom Chaucer treats with respect, is suspected by the host of the Tabard to be a "loller," that is, a Lollard, or disciple of Wiclif, and that, because he objects to the jovial innkeeper's swearing "by”
“It is, perhaps, not without significance that the poor parson in the _Canterbury Tales_, the only one of his ecclesiastical pilgrims whom Chaucer treats with respect, is suspected by the host of the Tabard to be a "loller," that is, a Lollard, or disciple of Wiclif, and that because he objects to the jovial inn-keeper's swearing "by”
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