[ad. mod.L. cordicola, f. cor, cordi- heart + -cola worshipper.] ‘A worshipper of the heart’: a nickname for one who worships the ‘Sacred Heart.’
1854. J. B. Dalgairns, Devot. Heart of Jesus (ed. 2), 38. It was in Jansenist periodicals that the nick-name of Cordicoles was attached to the members of the Confraternities.
[1883. Catholic Dict., s.v. Heart of Jesus, Nicknamed ‘Cardiolatræ’ or ‘Cordicolæ,’ and charged with Nestorianism.]
