Laudian

American  

[law-dee-uhn] / ˈlɔ di ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Archbishop Laud or his beliefs, especially that the Church of England preserves more fully than the Roman Catholic Church the faith and practices of the primitive church and that kings rule by divine right.

2. noting or pertaining to a style of English Gothic architecture of the early 17th century, characterized by a mixture of medieval and Renaissance motifs, attributed to the influence of the policies of Archbishop Laud.

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noun

1. a supporter of Archbishop Laud or of Laudianism.

Laudian British  

/ ˈlɔːdɪən /

adjective

1. Church of England of or relating to the High-Church standards set up for the Church of England by Archbishop Laud

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Etymology

Origin of Laudian

First recorded in 1685–95; Laud + -ian

Example Sentences

The doors of the screen belong to the Laudian revival, and bear the arms of Charles the First.

From Project Gutenberg

Under the Laudian statutes the very examiners became corrupt.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether Convocation lent these two Laudian manuscripts under bond duly approved, and for the purposes of publication, Mr. Macray does not state; but it looks very much as if the University was just as ignorant of its obligations as the Curators of a later date were of theirs.

From Project Gutenberg

On April 17 of the same year a Laudian MS. was lent to Mr. ——; there is not a syllable in the minutes about a bond, though that was absolutely necessary, nor any statement that the book was required for the purpose of publication; Laud's stipulations are quietly, and no doubt ignorantly broken under the presidency of the Vice-Chancellor.

From Project Gutenberg

As mutuari is correctly used in the barbarous language of our old statutes, so is it in the more polished Latinity of the Laudian code, in which the word occurs once, and I think only once, and as the devil of mischief will have it, in the Bodleian Statute itself, where 'e cista D. Thomæ Bodley mutuari' means 'to borrow from Sir Thomas Bodley's chest'.

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