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Cisalpine
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cisalpine
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from en cisalpine on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located). en cisalpinism 1 (“of or pertaining to cisalpinism”) was popularized by the Cisalpine Club which was founded in England in 1792.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Pronunciation
en /sɪsˈælpaɪn/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cisalpine.wav Southern England
en /ˌsɪsˈælpaɪn/ GA
en Cis alp ine
Adjective
- en Roman Catholicism historical
en Gallican of or pertaining to en Gallicanism the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope.
en ultramontane
en Charles Butler The English Jesuits—Father [Robert] Persons Additions to the Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics, from the Reformation to the Present Time London John Murray,Albemarle-Street. 1821 III footnote * 157 https://books.google.com/books?id=pyxeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA157 1160075932 They volume XIII of the works of Henri François d'Aguesseau shew the conflict between the cisalpine and transalpine opinions on papal power, so late as the reign of Lewis XIV, and the great difficulty, by which, even at that period, the former obtained the ascendant.
en Art. IV.—1. Revelations of Spain, in 1845. By an English Resident, 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1845. Colburn. 2. Journal of a Clergyman, during a Visit to the Peninsula, in the Summer and Autumn of 1841. By the Rev. W. Robertson, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh. Blackwood: 1845. 3. Diary of Travels in France and Spain, Chiefly in the Year 1844. By the Rev. Francis Trench, 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1845. Bentley. [book reviews] The Dublin Review London; Dublin Thomas Richardson and Son [et al.] June 1845 XVIII XXXVI 403 https://archive.org/details/dublinreview18londuoft/page/403/mode/1up 490095473 [N]ot being swayed by the spirit of either the ultramontane or the cisalpine school, by impracticable philosophical Jansenism, by abominable, gross, and hypocritical Jesuitism, nor by a collection of irrelevant doctrines based on contested principles, let us fix the following ones, which are essential......
en Leonard Penlock Cardinal Pole and His Friends at Padua The Dublin Review London Burns Oates & Washbourne October–December 1923 173 347 210 https://books.google.com/books?id=Eq0YAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA210 490095473 Within the first decades of the Sixteenth Century the University of Padua had secured a primacy in Europe which was to last for close upon three hundred years. [T]he academic pilgrimage, had become a daily, crowded transaction, in which the newcomers, no longer strangers and pilgrims, but fellow-citizens indeed, met the Cisalpine students on equal terms. As jurists or artists they were incorporated according to their place of origin into one or other of the Ultramontane "nations," each of which possessed its statutory rights and customs and shared in the administration of university business and in the privileges which the City-Commune was always eager to bestow.
en Norman B. Godfrey Letters [Cisalpine Catholicism] Clifford P[helps] Morehouse The Living Church: A Weekly Record of the News, the Work, and the Thought of the Episcopal Church Milwaukee, Wis. Morehouse-Gorham Co. 26 August 1945 CXI 9 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=x3vkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA7-PA3 2 0024-5240 3681962 One of the best arguments for the Anglican position can be found in Gallican or Cisalpine Catholicism, whose roots go back to Roman Gaul but whose branches stem from the Port-Royal movement of the 17th century.
en Nicholas W. Youmans Non sic erit inter frateres. Internal Structures of Obedience in Early Minorite Relational Constructs Mirko Breitenstein; Julia Burkhardt; Stefan Burkhardt; Jens Röhrkasten Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life Vita Regularis: Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter [Ordered Life: Orders and Interpretations of Religious Life in the Middle Ages] treatise 60 Berlin w:LIT Verlag 2014 part I (Creation of Norms) 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=PPbYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 978-3-643-90489-8 [T]he "Constitutions of Narbonne" detailed further measures for governance in a collegial spirit by establishing a fixed triennial interval for the convening of general chapters and instated alternating locations for chapter meetings, oscillating between cisalpine and ultramontane provinces.
en cisalpinismen UK Of or pertaining to en cisalpinism a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated from various legal restrictions.
en ultramontane
en Francis Plowden Of Tithes and Other Church Property Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, to which the Creator Requires the Submission of Every Human Being.Illustrated by References to Some Most Extraordinary, and No Generally Known Occurrences, during the Last Fifty Years, within the British Dominions, in the Management and Agitation of the Still-pending Question, Commonly Termed Catholic Emancipation. Paris Printed by J. Smith,rue Montmorency, nº 16, and published by W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall,Stationers’ Hall-Court, London. 1824 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=kMpLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA72 82209452 In pointing to some of these excesses on both sides, I have it not in contemplation to canvass, argue or even to refute errors either ultramontane or cisalpine, but merely to secure to myself a tenable position,
en Joscelyne Lechmere A Great Catholic Historian. John, Cardinal Lingard, 1771–1851 The Ecclesiastical Review: Monthly Publication for the Clergy Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Trustees of the American Ecclesiastical Review for the Catholic University of America May 1936 IV (10th series; volume XCIV overall) 5 474 https://books.google.com/books?id=2M3NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA474 0002-8274 9060196 Lord Stourton i.e., Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton had declined to join the Cisalpine Club, which consisted of men opposed to what they considered the excessive claims of an ultramontane section, but he remained a supporter of the views held by the dissolved Catholic Committee;
en cisalpine on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located).
en transalpine
XXI 356 Cæsar had by this time nearly 30,000 men. The Cisalpine territories in mere enthusiasm had raised twenty-two cohorts for him.
en w:José-Maria de Heredia Villula Merle St. Croix Wright Translations from José-Maria de Heredia New York, N.Y. Harold Vinal 1927 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=R_wnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49 1352376 Yes, 'tis old Gallus owns the heritage / Seen on the side of yon Cisalpine slope; / The homestead with the spreading pine for cope, / The thatched roof covers but a single stage.
en Carolynn E[lizabeth] Roncaglia The Roman Conquest Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity Baltimore, Md. w:Johns Hopkins University Press 2018 Part I (The Creation of Northern Italy) 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=wY1UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 978-1-4214-2519-1 The antiquarian Marcus Terentius Varro, quoting Cato the Elder, says that the Insubres grew pigs so fat that they could barely stand, and both Polybius and Strabo say that Cisalpine pork fed all Italy. Strabo further says that the viticulture there was so prosperous that Cisalpine wine casks were as big as houses.
Alternative forms
en cisalpine
Derived terms
en Cisalpine Gaul
Noun
en Roman Catholicism historical
en Gallican an adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.
en UK In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.
en 1897 w:Wilfrid Ward The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman 1 2nd 203, note 1 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5BYFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203 Some of the Cisalpines carried their opposition to the monastic orders so far as to be very unfriendly to the French émigrées nuns, for whose expulsion from England Sir J. Mildmay introduced a Bill in 1800.
en 1992 D[enis] G. Paz Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England 9780804719841 83 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I1AuTbAg3j4C&pg=PA83 But the Cisalpines began to be overshadowed by the ultramontane spirit in the 1830s, and it was not until after the Second Vatican Council a hundred and thirty years later that English Roman Catholics again asked themselves whether they were primarily English or primarily Roman.
en 2013 Francis Young English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829 9781409455653 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9ccuSnOjOtAC&pg=PT106 Just as with the Blackloists and Jansenists (and perhaps even more so), suspicion of the supernatural came to characterize the Cisalpines, although this time it had little to do with their doctrine of grace and more to do with the Cisalpines’ desire to make Catholicism comprehensible to a sceptical age.
See also
en Blackloist
Further reading
cisalpinism