sb. and a. [ad. mod.L. Utraquista, f. L. utraque each, both (in the phrase sub utrāque speciē ‘under each kind’: see SPECIES sb. 2, KIND sb. 13 b). Cf. -IST, and F. Utraquiste.]
A. sb. 1. Hist. CALIXTIN I.
1836. Pop. Encycl., I. 814/1. Utraquists, a sect of Hussites in Bohemia.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., VI. 248. They were called the Utraquists, as insisting on the Eucharist in both elements.
1881. Stanley, Chr. Instit., v. 95. When the Bohemian Utraquists fought with desperate energy to recover the use of the cup.
2. ‘One who composes in both Latin and the vernacular’ (Webster, 1911).
B. adj. 1. Hist. Belonging to the Utraquists; demanding, insisting on, or advocating the receiving the Communion in both kinds.
1894. F. I. Antrobus, trans. Pastor’s Hist. Popes, III. 214. The Utraquist Clergy.
1900. Pilot, 27 Oct., 539/1. The Hussites … were pre-eminently utraquist.
2. Speaking or using both or two languages.
1867. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 686/1. The name Utraquist is still applied to certain districts or villages in Bohemia and Moravia … to convey that … both languages, Bohemian and German, are spoken.
Hence Utraquistic a.
1894. F. I. Antrobus, trans. Pastor’s Hist. Popes, III. 216. This oath was thoroughly Catholic, and left no room for any Utraquistic interpretation.
