Gallican
Americanadjective
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Gallic; French.
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Ecclesiastical.
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of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church in France.
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of or relating to a school or party of French Roman Catholics, before 1870, advocating the restriction of papal authority in favor of the authority of general councils, the bishops, and temporal rulers.
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Gallican
1590–1600; < Latin Gallicānus belonging to Gallia, Gallican, equivalent to Gallic- Gallic + -ānus -an
Example Sentences
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Gallican Mugabonake of Handicap International, an aid organisation, says that improvements in Rwanda’s education system have helped it field 14 athletes.
From Economist • Sep. 6, 2012
His services now are still masses�in the ancient and quite orthodox Gallican liturgy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This letter made a great stir, and brought Bossuet—then regarded as the mouthpiece of the Gallican Church—into the field to crush the imprudent Theatine.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
A Gallican was not quite so deeply compromised.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
Especially in the liberal Gallican church there was a vigorous scientific life.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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