a. [See -INE1.] Of or belonging to Joseph II. (1741–90), Emperor of Austria, and to the ecclesiastical measures introduced by him.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., 527. In Austria the Josephine traditions were still continued [in concordat of 1855].
1886. W. S. Lilly, Chapt. Europ. Hist., I. 270. Germany … crushed by Hohenzollern militarism or Josephine doctrinairism.
Hence Josephinism, the ecclesiastical policy of the Emperor Joseph II.; also Josephism.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1847. The Emperor [Joseph II.] went on with that whole series of ecclesiastical reforms which is generally comprised under the name of Josephinism.
1891. Amer. Eccl. Rev., Feb., 123. The quintessence of the theology of Jansenism, Josephinism, Febronianism, and in our own times Doellingerism.
1880. Sat. Rev., No. 1310. 702. Josephism.
