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Brewer's: Pogram
A “creak-shoes,” a Puritanical starch mawworm. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PoillePoetry on the Greek Model A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Admonitionists
or Admonitioners Certain Puritans who in 1571 sent an admonition> to the Parliament condemning everything in the Church of England which was not in accordance with the doctrines and…Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 43
Part 43I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over, My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and…Brewer's: Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
No one injures me with impunity. The motto of the Order of the Thistle. It was first used on the coins of James VI. of Scotland (James I. of England). A strange motto for Puritans to adopt…Brewer's: Hampton Court Conference
A conference held at Hampton Court in January, 1604, to settle the disputes between the Church party and the Puritans. It lasted three days, and its result was a few slight alterations in…Brewer's: Exercises
Week-day sermons were so called by the Puritans. Hence the title of Morning Exercises, week-day sermons preached in the morning. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…Brewer's: Fifth-Monarchy Men
A sect of English fanatics in the days of the Puritans, who maintained that Jesus Christ was about to come a second time to the earth, and establish the fifth universal monarchy. The four…Brewer's: “Mayflower”
(The). A ship of 180 tons, which, in December, 1620, started from Plymouth, and conveyed to Massachusetts, in North America, 102 Puritans, called the “Pilgrim Fathers.” They called their…Brewer's: Pilgrim Fathers
(The). The 102 English, Scotch, and Dutch Puritans who, in December, 1620, went to North America in the ship called the Mayflower, and colonised Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,…Brewer's: Latitudinarians
A sect of divines in the time of Charles II., opposed both to the High Church party and to the Puritans. The term is now applied to those persons who hold very loose views of Divine…Trending
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