Anglican
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈæŋɡlɪkən/
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anglicano
- Zac Niringiye is a bishop in the Anglican Church of Uganda.
- Anglican Church
- Anglican Communion
- Anglican bishops
These are all majority non Anglican affairs.
- These are all majority non Anglican affairs.
- So Episcopalians are Protestant Christians within the Anglican spectrum or Anglican tradition, right?
- And quite often the Anglican authorities came down pretty hard on, on the, the Puritans.
- And so he starts out with that and then eventually he becomes a, a Christian and he joins the Anglican Church, Church of England.
Examples
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So it was a test of Anglican religious conformity.
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Proselytizing preachers were not only poaching in Anglican pews, they were reaching into vestries.
Academic text (1996) -
And I go, what is going on in in the Anglican church?
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And by that time, this, this new Anglican thing had become the going concern.
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I am in the early stages of studying to be an Anglican priest in Australia.
Blog text (1) -
John Polkinghorne, an Anglican priest, is president of Queens' College, Cambridge, England.
Academic text (1991) -
This Sunday, St. Luke's Anglican Church presents "Esther's Story," a puppet show for all ages.
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The Archbishop of the Anglican Church, Manasses Kurta, was an outspoken supporter of the mothers' movement.
Academic text (1994) -
This Sunday, St. Luke's Anglican Church presents "Esther's Story," a puppet show for all ages.
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Myers has remained silent, but the Anglican Church has been quick to react.
Synonyms
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7.5
Relating to a Christian church led by bishops, like the Anglican tradition
Compounds
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4.1
A Christian church that began in England with the British king or queen as its head
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7.4
A worldwide group of national churches connected to the Church of England with the Archbishop of Canterbury as symbolic leader
A person in the Anglican Church who values its Catholic traditions and practices
A branch of the Anglican Church that follows many Catholic-style rituals and ceremonies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Anglican = English (transparent) = anglic + an
Formed with the relational suffix '-an' meaning 'relating to' and referring to England/English, so a learner who knows 'English' and '-an' can infer the basic meaning.
Etymology
Anglican comes from the Latin word Anglia, which means 'England'. So to be Anglican originally meant 'of England' and today the adjective describes things and traditions that come from the Church of England.