[Ads-l] Antedating of "Episcopalianism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Episcopalianism (OED 1846)

1807 _Churchman's Magazine_ Oct. (ProQuest)  If even _they_ [Presbyterians], with their new auxiliaries, the Methodists, shoudl feel themselves inclined to attack Episcopalianism, we are under not kind of apprehension respecting the result of the contest.

Fred Shapiro

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