schismatical, a.
(sɪzˈmætɪkəl, sk-)
[Formed as prec. + -al1.]
= schismatic a.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., K. Hen. V, 34 b, Gregory the xij was one of the Scismatical numbre. 1558–9 Act 1 Eliz. c. 1 §19 Any Error, Heresie, Scisme or Scismaticall Opinion. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 589 Peucerus maketh the Egyptian Caliphs to be Schismaticall from their first entrance, which was (as he saith) in Anno 703. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. xxvi. 600 Syracon, Captain of the Turkes, that had beene in Aegypt, goes to the Caliph of Baldach, offering his best meanes for the extirpation of the Schismaticall Caliph. 1637 Decree Star-Chamb. concern. Printing §1 in Milton Areop. (Arb.) 9 That no person..shall presume to print..any seditious, scismaticall, or offensive Bookes or Pamphlets. 1642 Compl. to Ho. Comm. 15 Schismatical men addicted to Anabaptisme and Brownisme. 1659 Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 190 That Manasseh..built a temple on Mount Gerizim,..and there worshipped God, and offered sacrifices, (though in a schismatical way,) is out of doubt. 1680 Baxter Rep. Stilling fleet's Let. vi. 16 And therefore your accusation of us thus grounded is Shismatical and unjust. 1686 Answ. to Printed Paper 16 Then the Church of Rome is the most Schismatical in the World, that denies Communion with all Churches that are not in all Tridentine points one with her. 1738 Gentl. Mag. VIII. 18/1 The Prophets of the Grove, were not indeed Prophets of the Lord, as Elijah was, but they were the only Prophets of the Schismatical Jewish Church at Samaria. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxvii. 123 He put Pisa under an interdict, and all the places which gave shelter to the Schismatical Council. 1826 Scott Woodst. x, But what are these schismatical proceedings to our present purpose? 1879 R. T. Smith Basil the Great x. 124 The passage above quoted in respect to baptism, concerning the failure of the gifts of the spirit in schismatical bodies after the first generation, shows how strongly Basil held the doctrine of Apostolical Succession. 1882–3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 204/2 One who has received heretical or schismatical baptism when he might have had the Catholic. |
b. spec. in Roman Catholic use. (See schismatic n. b.)
| 1582 Allen Martyrdom Campion (1908) 108 This blessed man..had an old schismaticall priest to his uncle. |