latitudinarian, free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical
(adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
latitudinarian
(noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
latitudinarian (comparative more latitudinarian, superlative most latitudinarian)
Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
Tolerant, especially of other people's religious views.
Lax in moral or religious principles.
latitudinarian (plural latitudinarians)
A person who is tolerant of others' religious views.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, a. Etym: [Cf. F. latitudinaire.]
1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.
3. Lax in moral or religious principles.
Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. They were called "men of latitude;" and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet.
3. (Theol.)
Definition: One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
