Thirty-nine Articles

British  

plural noun

1. a set of formulas defining the doctrinal position of the Church of England, drawn up in the 16th century, to which the clergy are required to give general consent

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Thirty-nine Articles Cultural  

1. Thirty-nine fundamental beliefs of the Anglican Communion, in addition to the common Christian creeds. The Thirty-nine Articles, most of which are short paragraphs, set down differences in belief between Anglicans and other Christians.

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Thirty-nine Articles

How just, then, must the observation of Gibbon be, "that the great body of the English Clergy, sign the Thirty-nine Articles, with a sigh, or a smile."

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby

"What I am thinking of," said Bright, "is whether we shall not be taken as seeking the repeal of the Thirty-nine Articles instead of the taxes on knowledge."

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

Then, being asked, "Now, Mr. Jowett, answer the truth; can you sign the Thirty-nine Articles?" he dumbfoundered them with—"If you've a little ink!"

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

Leicester, as Chancellor, introduced subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles to keep out Romanists; King James, that to the three articles of the Thirty-sixth Canon to keep out Puritans.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith

Thirty-nine Articles, the articles of religious belief finally agreed upon by the entire bishops and clergy of the Church of England in 1562.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various