stercoranism

English

Etymology

From stercoranist +‎ -ism (suffix forming the names of schools of thought).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːkəɹənɪzm̩/, /ˈstɜːkɹənɪzm̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝkəɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˈstɝkɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
• Hyphenation: ster‧co‧ran‧i‧sm

Noun

stercoranism (uncountable)

1. The belief or doctrine of the stercoranists.
   • 1758, “Essay III”, in Considerations upon War, upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], →OCLC, section VI, footnote h, page 147:

     Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt breaks the faſt; vvhich opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoraniſm.

Translations

belief or doctrine of the stercoranists

• French: stercoranisme (fr) m

Further reading

• stercoranism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stercoranism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)