Word Meanings - SACRAMENTARIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist. 2. One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.

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• LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
  The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• EFFICACY
  Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force;
• EUCHARIST
  The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament. (more info) 1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• ROMANIST
  One who adheres to Romanism.
• ROMANCY
  Romantic.
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• HIEROMANCY
  Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
• PYROMANCY
  Divination by means of fire.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.