Edwardine
English
Etymology
Edward + -ine after King Edward VI, during whose reign the ordinal was written and first promulgated.
Adjective
Edwardine (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the ordinal written by Thomas Cranmer in 1552 and the clergy who were ordained using this ordinal.
- 1897, Arthur Lowndes, Vindication of Anglican Orders - Volume 1, page 71:
- As to the number of Edwardine clergy who were left in possession during the whole of Mary's reign, or till their death, and were not reordained, six such cases are given.
- 1908, Frederick William Puller, The Bull Apostolicae Curae and the Edwardine Ordinal, page 23:
- And first of all it is necessary to remember that the main difference between the second Edwardine Ordinal and the Ordinal as we find it now in our Prayer-books lies in the wording of the imperative formula which is repeated by the ordaining bishop, or by the principal ordaining bishop, during the laying-on of hands.
- 1937, Ernest Charles Messenger, The Reformation:
- He had been ordained Edwardine deacon and priest by Bishop King at Oxford, on March 22nd, 1550, and April 6th, 1550, respectively.
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