Dodwellian

English

Etymology

Dodwell +‎ -ian

Adjective

Dodwellian (comparative more Dodwellian, superlative most Dodwellian)

1. Of or pertaining to Henry Dodwell (1641–1711), Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian, and controversial writer.
   • 1829, Edmund Calamy, John Towill Rutt, An historical account of my own life:

     This book was written with the utmost assurance, and not without some smartness, upon the Ignatian and Dodwellian principles of High Church...

   • 1830, Christian Examiner:

     He goes over reordained, but I think not rebaptized ; for want of which, according to his narrow, uncharitable, and Dodwellian principles, I do not see how he can rightly baptize others.

   • 1997, Church House Publishing, Visible unity and the ministry of oversight:

     The Dodwellian view reaches the same conclusions as the Laudian about the necessity of episcopacy, but for different reasons...