- A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of
religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. - Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those
in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford
movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church
services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic
vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of
Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt
authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also,
the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal
Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
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