Dodwellian

Dodwellian

English

Etymology

Dodwell +‎ -ian

Adjective

Dodwellian (comparative more Dodwellian, superlative most Dodwellian)

1. Of or pertaining to Henry Dodwell (1641–1711), Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian, and controversial writer.
   • 1829, Edmund Calamy, John Towill Rutt, An historical account of my own life

     This book was written with the utmost assurance, and not without some smartness, upon the Ignatian and Dodwellian principles of High Church...

   • 1830, Christian Examiner

     He goes over reordained, but I think not rebaptized ; for want of which, according to his narrow, uncharitable, and Dodwellian principles, I do not see how he can rightly baptize others.

   • 1997, Church House Publishing, Visible unity and the ministry of oversight

     The Dodwellian view reaches the same conclusions as the Laudian about the necessity of episcopacy, but for different reasons...