anglican
anglican Lexical Profile
• adjective
Relating to or denoting the Church of England or any of the international churches in communion with it.
"The historic cathedral is renowned for its traditional Anglican choral music and liturgy."
Relating to England or the English people and culture (chiefly historical or formal).
"Scholars examined how seventeenth-century Anglican legal traditions influenced early colonial governance."
• noun
A member of the Church of England or any of the churches across the world in the Anglican Communion.
"As a lifelong Anglican, she found great comfort in the familiar words of the Book of Common Prayer."
• Nearby Words
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Anglicanus ('English'), notably from the phrase Ecclesia Anglicana ('the English Church') found in the Magna Carta of 1215, ultimately derived from Latin Angli ('the Angles', a Germanic tribe that settled in Britain).
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