Henry Hart Milman
Historian and Dean of St Paul's, 1791-1868
Cited as Milman. — 47 quotations
Absorb
That grave question which had begun to absorb the Christian mind -- the marriage of the clergy.
Abstruse
Profound and abstruse topics.
Angelology
The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology.
Antagonistic
They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic.
Argute
The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman.
Asserter
The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church.
Avenue
On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry.
Avouch
We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
Basilican
There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form.
Cantor
The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum.
Capitular
From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
Concubinarian
The married and concubinarian, as well as looser clergy.
Contingent
From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.
Crucifix
The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix.
Deity
They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ.
Dematerialize
Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything which . . . has distinguished matter.
Disclaim
The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.
Divinize
Man had divinized all those objects of awe.
Empawn
To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates.
Exculpate
I exculpate him further for his writing against me.
Fabric
Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
Hierarchism
The more dominant hierarchism of the West.
Impersonate
Benedict impersonated his age.
Incapacitate
It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property.
Indwell
The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form.
Inexpugnable
A fortress, inexpugnable by the arts of war.
Infelt
The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority.
Lettered
The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers.
Limitary
Doctrines limitary, if not subversive of the papal power.
Mall
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.
Manifesto
Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope.
Menace
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.
Money-making
Obstinacy in money-making.
Nepotic
The nepotic ambition of the ruling pontiff.
Nepotism
From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the nepotism of his order.
Novene
The triple and novene division ran throughout.
Obit
The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value.
Parallelistic
The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost.
Processional
The processional services became more frequent.
Profound
Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
Relegate
It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar.
Stipple
The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect.
Subscribe
All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
Subtilism
The high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus.
Succursal
Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents.
Thearchic
He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence.
Topographer
Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediaeval hell.