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  • noun A member of the Oxford movement.

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Examples

  • Soon after the erection of the chapel, there arose that shaking of the dry bones of religious England which we call the Tractarian movement.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Soon after the erection of the chapel, there arose that shaking of the dry bones of religious England which we call the Tractarian movement.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • Finally, with Pusey's _Assize Sermon_, in 1833, Newman felt that the movement later to be called Tractarian had begun.

    An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

  • Speculative philosophers drew along, not always with wrinkled foreheads and hoary hair as in framed portraits, but pink-faced, slim, and active as in youth; modern divines sheeted in their surplices, among whom the most real to Jude Fawley were the founders of the religious school called Tractarian; the well-known three, the enthusiast, the poet, and the formularist, the echoes of whose teachings had influenced him even in his obscure home.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • Speculative philosophers drew along, not always with wrinkled foreheads and hoary hair as in framed portraits, but pink-faced, slim, and active as in youth; modern divines sheeted in their surplices, among whom the most real to Jude Fawley were the founders of the religious school called Tractarian; the well-known three, the enthusiast, the poet, and the formularist, the echoes of whose teachings had influenced him even in his obscure home.

    Jude the Obscure 1894

  • Church which came as a sequel to the great upheaval of religious feeling known as the Tractarian or Oxford movement.

    The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892

  • The deep respect felt for the author of "The Christian Year" gave power to the sermon of 1833 upon National Apostasy, and made it the starting - point of the Oxford movement known as Tractarian, from the issue of tracts through which its promoters sought to stir life in the clergy and the people; known also as Puseyite because it received help at the end of the year 1833 from Dr. Pusey, who was of like age with J.H. Newman, and then Regius Professor of H.brew.

    The Christian Year John Keble 1829

  • They will stand as the monument of the reaction of the best minds against the "Tractarian" movement on the one hand, and against the skeptical tendencies of much of the science and philosophy of recent times on the other.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

  • _Returning to Oxford the next year from a journey on the Continent, he began, in cooperation with R.H. Froude and others, the publication of the "Tracts for the Times," a series of pamphlets which gave a name to the "Tractarian" or "Oxford" movement for the defence of the "doctrine of apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer-Book."

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • That is the point of view maintained in the "Tracts for the Times" from 1833 to 1841, which gave its familiar name to the "Tractarian" Movement.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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