[Ads-l] Antedating of "Episcopalianism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

episcopalianism (OED 1846)

1807 Churchman's Magazine Oct. (American Periodical Series)  Nevertheless, if even they, with their new auxiliaries, the Methodists, should feel themselves inclined to attack Episcopalianism, we are under no kind of apprehension respecting the result of the contest.

Fred Shapiro

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