tractarian
IPA: trˈæktˈɛriʌn
Root Word: Tractarian
noun
- (Anglicanism) A member of the Oxford movement.
adjective
- (Anglicanism) Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.
- (philosophy) Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
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Examples of "tractarian" in Sentences
- Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian.
- He visited England and saw the effects of the Tractarian movement.
- It does not have to carry tractarian or overly Anglo Catholic meaning
- You can't push tractarianism as Anglicanism and maintain a neutral POV.
- This tractarian movement was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Mavick.
- I'll even give you that this is arguably true for the pre Tractarian period.
- From the beginning, Mozley was a strong supporter of the Tractarian movement.
- No one has much less sympathy with the direction of the tractarian revival than the present writer, in whose Oxford days the star of Newman had set, and the sun of Mill had risen in its stead.
- Whig and Tory, Radical and Conservative, agree, that fire will burn and water suffocate; nay, no tractarian, so far as we know, has ventured to call in question the truths established by Cuvier and La Place.
- It led up to the definitely religious school of children's books, first evangelical, then tractarian, with which we shall deal later: but was itself as a rule utilitarian -- or sentimental -- moral rather than directly religious.
- If he had achieved no sort of distinction, Mr. Round had at least given no offence: above all, he had kept clear of all those tractarian innovations which had been finally stamped with the censure of the university two years before.
- Hooker and Jeremy Taylor, the philosophy of Hobbes and Locke, the commentaries of Blackstone and the ballads of Percy, together with the tractarian writings of Newman, Keble, and Pusey, were all thrown into blank verse and incorporated with the Paradise Lost, the reader would scarcely be much to blame if he failed to appreciate that delectable compound.
- But apart from other advantages incidental to the tractarian movement, such as the attention which it was the means of drawing to history and the organic connection between present and past, it had, we repeat, the merit of being an effective protest against what may be called the House of Commons 'view of human life -- a view excellent in its place, but most blighting and dwarfing out of it.
- On the other hand, some of the stronger American fictions fail in workmanship; for example, Uncle Toms Cabin, which is still vivid and moving long after its tractarian interest has faded; the novels of Frank Norris, a man of great vision and high purpose, who attempted to put national economics into something like an epic of daily bread; and Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, a madly eloquent romance of the sea.