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noun
Latitudinarian  n.  
1.
One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
2.
(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. "They were called "men of latitude;" and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians."
3.
(Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.



adjective
Latitudinarian  adj.  
1.
Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2.
Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. "Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects."
3.
Lax in moral or religious principles.






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"Latitudinarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Presbyterian Duke, And Anglican Archbishop, mustered up With Tabernacular Tubthumper, gowned Taffy, And broad-burred Boanerges from the North, Mingled with Pantheist bards, Agnostic Peers, And lawyers latitudinarian,— Lord Mayor's Show of Paul Pry pageantry, All to play Mentor to the Muscovite! Master of many millions! Oh, most monstrous! Are we Turk dogs that they should do this ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various

... perceive that the triunit consisting of perception, appetence, and motion, constitutes the celebrated irritability of our author. But he has been too latitudinarian in his application of the theory; for he did not limit it, as HALLER has subsequently done, to one sort of fibres, or indeed to fibres alone, for he says in cap. IX., "It is to be remarked that natural ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... away; but his words touched a responsive chord in the breast of President Madison. On March 3, 1817, as he was about to leave office, he sent to Congress a message vetoing the Internal Improvements Bill and warning his party associates of the danger of latitudinarian views of the Constitution. This message was Madison's farewell address. It was thoroughly characteristic of the man ...
— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... a latitudinarian. No one felt greater decision than he did for the truths of our holy faith. When his Lord's design in Christianity was, as he thought, perverted by a beneficed clergyman, then he sent forth from his prison an answer as from a son of thunder, even at the risk of his life. His love for the ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... LEE (published at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room), is a brief treatise on the nature of Church Government, defending the right of visible church organization against prevailing latitudinarian and transcendental views on the one hand, and maintaining liberal principles of polity against the high claims of Episcopacy and the assumptions of the clergy on the other. The argument is conducted with candor and moderation, though not without spirit, and may be studied to advantage ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various


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