a. [UN-1 7.] Not belonging to any particular religious denomination.
Freq. in recent use in connection with religious education in elementary schools.
1871. Athenæum, 15 April, 465. It has ruled that the new Board schools are to be strictly undenominational.
1885. Manch. Exam., 20 March, 8/5. The … advantage of an undenominational system of education.
Hence Undenominationalism, -alist, -alize v., -ally adv.
1883. Christian, 1 Nov., 12/2. His strong protest against *undenominationalism … does not appear to us well-timed.
1884. Pall Mall G., 14 Aug., 4/2. The most animated debate of the whole Conference was that between Churchmen and *undenominationalists.
1895. Forum (N. Y.), June, 435. Our own scattered colleges, now *‘undenominationalized,’ if not secularized, can be gathered into groups and unified.
1906. Westm. Gaz., 8 Feb., 2. How this is to be done *undenominationally I do not know.
