Tractarian

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A person who supported the Oxford Movement in the Church of England

noun
/trækˈtɛəriən/

: tractariano

This is a consequence of his Tractarian view that no general thesis about the nature of language or experience can ever be explicitly stated; such matters can only be shown or conveyed by making clear the form of our language.

Examples

Glorious Battle describes the potentially feminist elements of Tractarian doctrine, including residential sisterhoods, and assesses their actual effect.

Academic text (2007)
Okay, Tractarian, please correct me.

Blog text (12)
For almost all Victorians, including Tractarians and Yonge herself, the answer was that female philanthropy was best when it stayed closest to home.

Academic text (2007)
Wittgenstein's conception of life is now social, not solipsistic; while he could have accepted the words just quoted in early 1929, when he was still working within a Tractarian framework, they would have referred to the stream of consciousness, not the course of ordinary life.

Academic text (1991)
Only women who had "no significant family duties" (Sturrock 57) were encouraged by most Tractarian clergymen to join sisterhoods, and throughout The Daisy Chain, the narrator's explicit commentary places duties to home and family above any other.

Academic text (2007)
But in fact, Yonge was more firmly aligned with those Tractarians who attempted to blunt criticism of the movement by explicitly rejecting sisterhoods or philanthropy as alternatives to domestic duties.

Academic text (2007)
Many Tractarians believed in the importance of tradition within the Anglican Church.
As a Tractarian, she participated in efforts to revive the liturgical practices of the Church of England.
The Tractarian movement significantly influenced religious thought in 19th-century England.

Surface Forms

Tractarian singular

Tractarians plural

Morphology

Tractarian = tract (opaque) = tract + arian

The term 'Tractarian' is derived from 'tract' but refers specifically to followers of the Oxford Movement, which is not apparent from the base word.

Etymology

Tractarian comes from the religious pamphlets called Tracts, especially a series called 'Tracts for the Times', and the ending -arian means a person who follows an idea. So a Tractarian is someone who followed the ideas in those tracts and the Oxford Movement.