rare. [f. as prec. + -IST.] An adherent or partisan of catholicism.
1812. Monthly Mag., XXXIII. 133/2. We say Christian, by way of respect, but we reproach a man by terming him a Deist, Methodist, Catholicist.
1875. N. Y. Herald, 21 Feb., 15/2. I, or even, you, would object to the laying aside the appellation of ‘Catholic’ for that of ‘Catholicist,’ bestowed upon the great old Church in spite of ignorance by some religious or political opponent.
1896. W. Sharp, in Lyra Celtica, 398. Mrs. Hinkson … is distinctively Irish rather than Celtic, and pre-eminently a Catholicist in the spirit of her work.
1913. The Worker, 3 April, 27/4. There are the syndicalists and catholicists, who, of course, make common action practically impossible.
