Bangorian, a.
(bæŋˈgɔərɪən)
[f. Bangor + -ian.]
Of or pertaining to Bangor, N. Wales, in Bangorian controversy, a religious controversy raised by a sermon preached before the king in 1717 by Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, directed against the non-jurors.
| 1718 C. Norris (title) The Reconciler, or the Bangorian Controversy, abridg'd. 1759 Goldsmith Bee vii. 201 They are informed of the excellence of the Bangorian controversy. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 280/2 It was the year [1717] in which Bishop Hoadley preached that famous sermon on The Kingdom of Christ, which gave rise to the..theological war known as the ‘Bangorian controversy’. 1881 Ibid. XII. 29/1 A war of pamphlets known as the Bangorian controversy. |
Hence as n., a supporter of Benjamin Hoadly.
| 1721 [see constitutioner 2]. |