High Church, a. and n.
[app. deduced from High Churchman (see next) and used attrib. as in High Church party, and then substantively.]
A. adj. or attrib. phr. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of High-Churchmen (see next); of or belonging to the principles and practices of High-Churchmen: see B.
| 1704 De Foe Storm xxiv, They say this was a High-Church Storm, Sent out the Nation to Reform. 1705 Hearne Collect. 4 July (O.H.S.) I. 1 The latter has promis'd to come over to the High Church Party. 1705–15 Burnet Own Time vi. (1823) IV. 249 Those men, who began now [anno 1704] to be called the high church party, had all along expressed a coldness, if not an opposition to the present settlement. 1710 Let. to New Memb. Parlt. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 565 Any manner of persons, either high-church, low, or no church. 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. iii. 13 Maintaining the same principles with our jacobite high-church priests. 1730 Swift Vind. Ld. Carteret Wks. 1761 III. 194 Whether it contained any Tory or high-church principles. 1744 N. Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. III. 523 Those of the Clergy who began now [1700–2] to be called the High-Church party..set up a complaint all over England of the want of Convocations. 1814 Scott Wav. ii, Tory or High-Church predilections and prejudices. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xvi. 250 The nonjuring and high-church factions among the clergy produced few eminent men. 1830 W. Wilberforce Private Papers 31 Dec. (1897) 157 All my three Oxonians are strong friends to High Church and King doctrines. 1884 Mandell Creighton in Dict. Eng. Hist. 265/2 A movement which had its seat at Oxford, and was begun by Newman, Keble, Pusey, and Hurrell Froude, revived the old High Church party. 1890 T. F. Tout Hist. Eng. III. x. vi. 233 By the end of 1837 the High Church revival had become general. 1895 Oman Hist. Eng. xli. 679 To the new High-Church party we owe much good work in neglected parishes, and a restoration of decency and order in public worship. Mod. colloq. The women of the family are very High-Church. |
B. n. [orig. short for H.C. party, H.C. principles.] The party or principles of the High-Churchmen (see next).
| 1702 Lady Pye in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. iv. 26, I never saw so short a sorrow as was here [about King William's death]..and the High Church are elevated hereabouts. 1704 [C. Leslie] Wolf Stript 5 They [the Low-Church] profess themselves ready to joyn with the Dissenters in Confederacy against the High-Church. 1706–9 M. Tindall Rights of Christ. Church Pref., Nothing is more disputed at present than who is the best Church⁓man, both High and Low Church laying claim to it. 1709 Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 24 This is the true Spirit of High-Church; they wou'd have the Mitre overtop the Crown. 1710 Answ. Sacheverell's Serm. 6 Several of the High Church are for a Union between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. 1710 Addison Tatler No. 220 ¶9 The Terms High-Church and Low-Church, as commonly used, do not so much denote a Principle, as they distinguish a Party. 1710 in Howell State Trials XV. 554 I'll lead you on, boys; huzza! high church and Sacheverell! 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. Pref. 11 To convince the world how strenuous they were in the cause of high-church and the pretender. 1833 Record 24 Jan. 4/3 The order which resists Reformation is the High Church. |
Hence High-Church v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to render High Church in doctrine and practice. High-ˈChurchism, † High-ˈChurchship, High Church principles, doctrine, or practice. High-Churchist, -ite, an adherent to High Church principles.
| 1720 Gordon & Trenchard Indep. Whig No. 42 ¶5 Italy..(that Seat of High-Churchship). 1823 S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 272 An amusing..picture of generosity, whim, domination, and high churchism. 1846 MacFarlane Cabinet Hist. Eng. XV. 128 The high-churchism of the Queen [Anne] naturally grew higher with sickness and danger. 1848 Clough Lett. & Rem. (1865) 118 A― belongs, I see, to the new High Churchites. 1863 Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 101 Stiltified County Queens, with daughters long on hand, had taken refuge in High-Churching their village. 1868 Episcopalian (N.Y.) 8 July, Another High-Churchist..used language inappropriate to be placed on record. |