[Ads-l] Antedating of "Presbyterian"

[Geoffrey Nathan]

Only marginally relevant, but interesting to me was the occurrence of
the word "Lutheran" in Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, written in 1630.
However, the OED has a cite from 100 years earlier, 1530, in a letter by
Thomas Cromwell. It seems to have originally meant any kind of Protestant.

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu

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presbyterian (OED 1606)

1577 in Early English Books Online

Fred Shapiro

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