a. and sb. [UN-1 7 and 12.]
A. adj. Not catholic or universal, in an ecclesiastical sense; also spec., not Roman-Catholic.
1601. [? W. Watson]. Imp. Consid. Sec. Priests (1675), 61. This intolerable and very uncatholick course thus held by divers, to the great offence of many good Catholicks.
1660. Gauden, God’s Gt. Demonstr., 51. Thy humane traditions, and unauthentick because uncatholick observations, instead of Christ’s institutions.
1678. T. Jones, Heart & its Sov., 522. Our Romanists … are so restrain’d, and Vncatholick, and Jewish-like, in the bounds of their Church, which they so confine to Rome.
1685. J. Scott, Chr. Life, II. vii. § 9. Now that Church which requires sinful or uncatholick Terms of Communion, doth hereby exclude … all Parts of the Catholick Church from its Communion.
1711. G. Hickes, Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847), I. 271. A new uncatholic mission of their own creating.
1845. J. H. Newman, Ess. Developm., 328. Such a doctrine is in no sense uncatholic.
1896. Gore, R. C. Claims, App. I. 210. We in the Church of England … are yet unfettered by any uncatholic dogma.
transf. 1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, II. i. I’ll tell thee what a most uncatholic jest He put upon me once.
B. sb. One who is not a Catholic.
1865. Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 133. The Bishop of Trèves doubted for a time on account of the un-Catholics, but decided that the decree would be advantageous.
