Utraquist
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Origin of Utraquist
1830–40; < New Latin Utraquista, equivalent to Latin utrāque (ablative singular feminine of uterque each of two, equivalent to uter either + -que and) + New Latin -ista -ist
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For nearly two hundred years after this these "Compactata" were regarded as the law of the land; and the Utraquist Church was recognised by the Pope as the national self-governing Church of Bohemia.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
"Yes, the Jesuits! the Jesuits!" exclaimed Schindel, and for a while was silent; then looking sadly at Tausdorf, he continued--"So, you are no thorough-paced Lutheran, Herr von Tausdorf?--only a Utraquist?"
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der
As the invention of printing facilitated controversy, polemical zeal multiplied treatises to prove the iniquity of the Utraquist heresy, but the Utraquists were not to be converted.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
They had settled on a Utraquist estate; they were under the protection of a Utraquist King; they attended services conducted by Utraquist priests.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
This was a direct infringement of the agreement concluded by the Romanist and Utraquist estates on the day on which King Rudolph had signed the Letter of Majesty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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