a. and sb. [ad. L. Tigurīn-us in Tigurīnus pāgus (Cæsar), a district of ancient Helvetia, generally identified with Zürich (Turicum).] a. adj. Of or pertaining to Zürich (cf. Consensus Tigurinus, the Zürich Consensus of 1549); hence = ZWINGLIAN. b. sb. A Zwinglian.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 331. The interpretatioun of the Confessioun of the Tigurine kirk made by Mr Robert Pont.
1674. Hickman, Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2), 59. Blessed is the man who hath not gone in the counsel of the Sacramentarians, nor stood in the way of the Zuinglians, nor sate in the seat of the Tigurines.
1675. V. Alsop, Anti-Sozzo, 273. Those low-spirited, phlegmatic Tigurine doctors, who trade all in … unwieldy systems of Divinity.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. i. (1715), 3. Cf. the Tigurine Version with that of Geneva.
1788. G. Campbell, Four Gospels (1807), I. 143. This has been followed by the Tigurine translator.
