a. (sb.) Also 7–8 laudean. [f. name of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury 1633–45 + -IAN.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Laud; favoring the tenets or practices of Laud; instituted by Laud. Also as sb., a follower of Laud.
1691. Baxter, Nat. Ch., xiv. 68. The Laudian New Church men, that are for a Forreign Jurisdiction.
1710. Managers’ Pro & Con, 47. The Modern Laudeans can scarce bear the Word Reformation.
1738. Neal, Hist. Purit., IV. 408. The Earl of Clarendon was a Protestant of Laudean principles in Church and State.
1853. Marsden, Early Purit., 445. The tendency of the Laudian theology.
1861. G. G. Perry, Hist. Ch. Eng., I. xv. 555. The Laudian system of Church Government.
1874. Green, Short Hist., viii. 495. The Laudian clergy … regarded it [Sunday] simply as one among the holidays of the Church.
Hence Laudianism, the principles and practice of Laud and his followers.
1872. R. Rainy, Lect. Ch. Scotl., ii. (1883), 94. He will say this is Laudianism, in principle identical with the Anglican High Churchism.
