Citations:idiotistical

English citations of idiotistical

• 1716, Myles Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ:

  ...because of the foresaid Breviary-Division into Hours, & c. but that, as well as other little Offices of St. Joseph, the Angel Guardian, & c. are mostly included in the aforesaid Manual of Prayers, &c. yet the Jansenistical Romanists, such as the English Secular Priest-Seminarists, are generally suppos'd to be at Lisbon and Doway, have but very little to do with those little Offices, or Sodalities, with their Indulgences, but rather chuse to make use of the Idiotistical, or Vulgar Catholick Instrument, call'd the Rosary or Beads, or a little Explanation of the common Course of the Mass, or else a little Pamphlet of Prayers, intituled in the Latin Edition, Paradisus Animæ Christianæ, and in the French Translation, Heures Chretiennes, which is divided, not into Hours, but according to the Days of the Week ...

• 1932, Vanity Fair - Volumes 37-39, page 61:

  The Editors have indicated to Mr. Nathan his piaculous addiction to obsoletion, which appears so idiotistical to Purist Dunning: and Mr. Nathan promises an attempt at reform, as he admits that this is a habit, the only word for which is ---pediculous.