Utraquist

American  

[yoo-truh-kwist] / ˈyu trə kwɪst /

noun

1. Calixtine.

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Other Word Forms

• Utraquism noun

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

De Schweinitz says that Augusta betrayed his Brethren, and that when he called himself a Utraquist he was playing with words.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

Of that Consistory the Administrator was a Utraquist Priest; the next in rank was a Brethren's Bishop; the total number of members was twelve; and of these twelve only three were Brethren.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

And so, by the advice of Utraquist priests, this ardent young man joined the ranks of the Brethren, was probably trained in the Brethren's House at Jungbunzlau, and was soon ordained as a minister.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

He tried to obtain the Bohemian and Hungarian crowns; but Podiebrad, a Utraquist nobleman, was made king of Bohemia, and Matthias Corvinus succeeded Hunyady, his father, on the throne of Hungary.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

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