Romanist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
historiography
history
human-sciences
law
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Roman
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English Romanist
From Roman + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: Romanists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Romanist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Romanist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Roman Catholic.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
examples: This is enough & too much, that when the Romaniſts doe boaſt that their iuriſdiction is ſpirituall, it is eaſy to ſhewe that there is nothing more contrary to the order inſtitute of Chriſte, and that it hath no more likeneſſe to the auncient cuſtome than darkneſſe hath to light.
In quarrels with the Pope if the Clergy ſhould diſown to be ſubject to that temporal Prince who conteſts with him, if they refuſe to contribute for the defence of the Nation, if they foment any ſecret deſigns at the Popes command, then the ſtricteſt Romaniſt would preſently ſee the inſecurity of that Kingdom.
The manner of the Romanists however hanging their Churches with red Damask, & making Musick in a regular Orchestra there—is a despicable Effort—and defeats its own purpose completely, by turning the house of God into a Theatre […].
gloss: A scholar of Roman law and jurisprudence.
pos: noun
examples: The foundations of present views of Roman civil procedure were laid by the Austrian Romanist Moriz Wlassak [...]
gloss: A scholar of Roman history and culture.
pos: noun
gloss: A scholar of Romance languages; a Romanicist.
pos: noun
examples: The principal magazines devoted to the subject are—Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur (ed. Wolff, Ebert, and Lembcke), later only für romanische Literatur; Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen (ed. Herrig), of a more popular character; Romania (a quarterly, ed. Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer, since 1872), contains ariticles of the most eminent Romanists; Revue des Langues Romanes (Montpellier, from 1870 onwards), chiefly devoted to Provençal; Romanische Studien (ed. Boehmer); Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ed. Gröber, since 1877); and Romanische Forschungen (ed. Vollmöller, since 1884).
gloss: A painter of the 16th century Romanist school.
pos: noun
gloss: someone perceived to be in favor of Rome Rule in Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
historical
gloss: Pertaining to Roman law and jurisprudence.
pos: adj
examples: Even in England the Romanist tradition not only remained alive but received strong new impulses in Oxford and Cambridge, where the teaching of the "civil"—i.e., Roman—law was never interrupted.
gloss: Pertaining to the school of thought which emphasises the continuity of legal and cultural institutions between Rome and later medieval Europe, downplaying the role of external influences or innovation in the decline of the Roman Empire.
pos: adj
examples: The 'Germanist' view has been countered with the 'Romanist' or 'continuity' view, which holds that the Germanic barbarians created little that was new.
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