sb. and a. Church Hist. Forms: (see quots.). [ad. med.L. Wyclyvian-us, or directly f. Wycliffe, -clif, etc.: see WYCLIFFITE.]
† A. sb. = WYCLIFFITE sb. Obs.
[c. 1400. Knighton’s Chron. (Rolls), II. 184. Sicque a vulgo Wyclyff discipuli et Wyclyviani sive Lollardi vocati sunt. Ibid., 312. Idem archiepiscopus firmavit sententiam excommunicationis super Lollardos sive Wyclyvianos.]
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), II. 965/2. Chaucer … semeth to bee a right Wicleuian.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 100. It had been easily answered, in that poynt, by the Wickleuians.
1654. H. Turbervill, Man. Controv., 47. Let him not cite the Wicklefians, for they held, That [etc.].
1717. Earbery, Pref. Varillas’ Pretended Reformers, p. vi. Our new Allies the Lutherans, Calvinists, and Wickliffians.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to, characterizing the teaching of, Wycliffe or his followers.
1720. Lewis, Life Wyclif, 114. The Wicliffian Superstition which obliges the Ministers of the Church to be Beggars.
1889. Q. Rev., April, 510. Some of the sentiments are exclusively Wiclifian.
Hence † Wycliffianism, = next. Obs.–1
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., II. 90. That Principle of Wickleffianism,… which the Jesuites themselves so loudly hoot at.
