Associations to the word «Tractarian»

Wiktionary

TRACTARIAN, noun. A member of the Oxford movement.

Dictionary definition

TRACTARIAN, noun. A follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times').

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope