Protestancy (protest ans i)

[ +-cy.] Protestant ism. Protestancy is called to the bar, and though not sentenced by you to death without mercy, yet arraigned of so much natural malignity (if not corrected by ignorance or contrition) as to be in itself destructive of salvation. Chilling worth , Religion of Protestants, i. 1. protest an do (prō-tes-tanʼdō), n . [L., abl. sing. gerund. of protestari , declare in public, bear witne : see protest .] In law , a protestation. See protestation , 3. protestant (prot'es-tant), a, and n. [ A private protestant tribunal [conscience), where personal moral convictions preside, and which alone enables men to adapt themselves to new ethical situations or environments. G. S. Hall , Amer. Jour. Psychol., III. 61. 2. [ cap .] Of or pertaining to Protestants or their doctrines or forms of religion. All sound Protestant writers. Milton , Civil Power. Protestant Friends. Same as Free Congregations (which see, under congregation ). II. n . 1. One who protests; one who makes protestation. [In this use also pronounced distinctively prō-tes'tant.] Bid me to live, and I will live Thy protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. Herrick, To An the a. If consistency were a matter of great concern to partizans, it might also be pertinent to suggest that no great moral value can be attached to a protest against evil-doing at which the protestant has connived. The Century , XXX. 328. testacioun, But first I make a protestacioun That I am dronke, I knowe it by my soun. Chaucer , Prol. to Miller's Tale, 1. 29. Whereas ye write the day and year of D. Barnes' death, it increaseth your own confusion, and shall be a clear testimony against yourself for resisting those good words of his protestation , if ye forsake not your heresy in time. Cover dale, Remains (Parker Soc.), p. 328. You are welcome too, sir; 'Tis spoken from the heart, and therefore needs not Much protestation . Beau , and Fl ., Custom of the Country, iii. 5. Hear but some vows I make to you; Hear but the protestations of a true love. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, i. 3. 2. A solemn or formal declaration of di ent; a protest. Which protestation, made by the first public reformers of our religion against the imperial edicts of Charles the fifth imposing church-traditions without Scripture, gave first beginning to the name of Protestant. Milton , Civil Power. I hear at once Hubbub of protestation ! Browning , Ring and Book, II. 215. 3. In law, a declaration in pleading, by which the party interposed an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, by protesting that it did or did not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial, the object being to admit it for the purpose of the present action only, and reserve the right to deny it in a future action- "an exclusion of a conclusion." Coke. In Scots law, a proceeding taken by a defender, where the pursuer neglects to proceed, to compel him either to proceed or to suffer the action to fall. =Syn. 1. Affirmation, averment. See protest, v. i. protest at or (prot ́es-ta-tor), n. [= Pg. protes tad or = It. protest a tore, protested (pro-tes'ted), p. a. Having made a protest. [Rare.] 2. [ cap .] A member or an adherent of one of those Christian bodies which are descended from the Reformation of the sixteenth century: in general language, opposed to Roman Cath- olic and Greek . The name, first applied to the Luther- ans who protested at the Diet of Spires in 1529, came to be applied to Luther ans generally, and afterward was ex- tended to Calvinists and other opponents of the papacy in countries where the papacy had formerly been in power. (See protest of Spires , under protest .) The Protestants gained a strong foothold in some countries, as France, protested Briton, throughout the three kingdoms, and in which they are now numerically weak. They are in the majority in Great Britain and many of its po e ions, in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Scand in avian countries, and the United States. What Gerson and Pan or mit an us write, which were ancient fathers, and not new Protestants . Bp . Pilkington , Works (ed. Parker Soc., 1562), p. 532. One of these tracts [printed about 1570] has the following title: Ane prettie Mirrour, or Conference betuix the Faith full Protestant and the Di emblit false Hypocreit. Lauder , Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. ix. Queen Elizabeth, finding how fickle the French Protes tants had carried themselves towards her, intended to make a Peace. Baker , Chronicles, p. 333. Papist or Protestant , or both between, Like good Erasmus. in an honest mean. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 65. Protest anticalł (prot-es-tan′ti-kal), a . [ Prot estant + -ic- al .] Protestant. [Rare.] The protest antical Church of England. Bacon , Obs. on a Libel.