a. and sb. [ad. med.L. Tridentīn-us, f. Tridentum the city of Trent.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the city of Trent in Tyrol, or to the Council of the Roman Catholic Church held there (1545–63).
1561. Barlow, in H. N. Birt, Eliz. Relig. Settlement, x. (1908), 424. Thomas Stapleton and Edward Goddeshalfe … as it is bruited were the last summer at Tridentine Council.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 134. The Faith Nicene he spake exact, But when to that the Tridentine he tack’d, This a new Gospel is.
1849. Sir J. Stephen, Eccl. Biogr. (1850), I. 475. The most promising quarrel which had arisen in the Church since the close of the Tridentine Council.
1901. Bp. Gore, Body of Christ, iv. § 4 (1907), 257. When they [Protestants] rejected the Tridentine doctrine of the Melchizedekian priesthood.
B. sb. One who accepts and conforms to the decrees of the Council of Trent; an orthodox Roman Catholic.
a. 1836. R. H. Froude, Rem. (1838), I. 434. [In answer to the statement that] the Romanists were Schismatics in England, but Catholics abroad, [Froude replied] No, they are wretched Tridentines every where.
a. 1882. Dublin Rev. (Ogilvie). Anglicans have styled Catholics of the present day Tridentines.
So Tridentize v. rare, intr. to conform to the Tridentine decrees.
1826. G. S. Faber, Diffic. Romanism (1853), 110. [It] is evident to common sense, and will readily be admitted by the tridentising Romanist.
