Big non i aceæ (bignonia see)

pl. [NL., Big non i ace a. bigoted (big'ot-ed), a. [ A more abject, slavish, and bigoted generation. Steele. So nursed and bigoted to strife. Byron. A bigoted Tory and High Churchman. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xvii. IMG:content-2051.png:[blocks in formation] Some bigotical religionists. Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 18. bigotry (big'ot-ri), n .; pl. bigotries (-riz). [F. bigoterie , bigot .] The character or mode of thought of a bigot; obstinate and unreasonable attachment to a particular creed, opinion, practice, ritual, or party organization; exce ive zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion; intolerance of the opinions of others. Those bigotries which all good and sensible men despise. Pope. Were it not for a bigotry to our own tenets, we could hardly imagine that so many absurd, wicked, and bloody principles should pretend support themselves gospel. Watts. James was now a Roman Catholic. Religious bigotry had become the dominant sentiment of his narrow and Macaulay , Hist. Eng., ii. stubborn mind. =Syn, Credulity, Fanaticism, etc. (see superstition ), narrow-mindedne , prejudice, intolerance.