Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Opposed to episcopacy.
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Examples
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He gives a particularly spirited account of the racy Elizabethan anti-episcopal tracts published under the name "Martin Marprelate," but he also reminds us that the men who wrote and printed them were courting the risk of torture and execution.
In All But Name 2008
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It may be added that Punch was also a supporter of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and that here again he found considerable scope for the display of his anti-episcopal animus.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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Catholics in their struggle for emancipation, which gained for itself an unfortunate notoriety for its liberalizing principles, and the generally anti-episcopal tendency of its action.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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By the accidents of the time he was induced to treat first, in his anti-episcopal pamphlets, of religious liberty.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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In the same year he reads 'a most violent article on Milton by Macaulay, fair and unfair, clever and silly, allegorical and bombastic, republican and anti-episcopal -- a strange composition, indeed. '
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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So for the most part the early anti-episcopal Protestants, Brightman for example; and even Hengstenberg has not disdained to fall back on this unworthy subterfuge; the mere statement of which involves its condemnation.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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But that this be not thought a tenet of anti-episcopal writers alone, let us hear what is said by one of our greatest opposites: (1051) _Neque defendimus ita_, &c.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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In 1588-89, a series of virulently anti-episcopal tracts were published under the
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(Milton published several anti-episcopal pamphlets in 1640-41).
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Following his failed attempt to arrest the Five Members, Charles realized that he was not only immensely unpopular among parliamentarians, he was also in danger of London's pro-Puritan, anti-episcopal, and increasingly anti-royal
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