English
Tractarian
From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.
Formed from tract + -arian
Latin trahō ‘to drag, pull’
Latin tractus ‘a haul, drawing, a drawing out’
Old English traht ‘a treatise, exposition, commentary, text,…’
Middle English tract ‘a treatise, exposition, commentary’
English tract
The story
From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.
Today it means
noun A member of the Oxford movement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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