Jansenist: alternatives and connections

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from aper…

elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black…

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superi…

the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century

A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when o…

An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges…

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…

A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from th…

A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature d…

A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.