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  phorum - 請問一個字 - RE: 找不到中文解釋
The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England, where "antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove the Church's status as the state church of England.
Antidisestablishmentarian members of the Free Church of Scotland delayed merger with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in a dispute about the position of the Church of Scotland.
Antidisestablishmentarianism might still be the longest word not invented for the specific purpose of being a long word, however (the word floccinaucinihilipilification may have been invented as a joke, and is an amalgamation of four Latin words[1][2]).
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  Antidisestablishmentarianism - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political philosophy that is opposed to the separation of church and state.
The term originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England, where "antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove its status as the state church of England.
Antidisestablishmentarianism succeeded in England, but failed in Ireland and Wales, with the Church of Ireland being disestablished in 1871 and the Church in Wales in 1920.
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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Antidisestablishmentarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political philosophy that is opposed to the separation of church and state.
The term originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England; antidisestablismentarians were opposed to proposals to remove its status as the state church of England.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is often quoted as one of the longest English words that has an actual meaning: see Longest word in the English language, although there is a longer word; Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism, meaning false opposition to the separation of the state and the church.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Antidisestablishmentarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism (American English:) originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England, where "antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove the Church's status as the state church of England.
Antidisestablishmentarian members of the Free Church of Scotland delayed merger with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in a dispute about the position of the Church of Scotland.
Antidisestablishmentarianism might still be the longest word not invented for the specific purpose of being a long word (the word floccinaucinihilipilification may have been invented as a joke, and is an amalgamation of four Latin words).
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 Antidisestablishmentarianism - Definition, explanation
The term originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England, where "antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove its status as the state church of England.
Antidisestablishmentarianism succeeded in England, but failed in Ireland and Wales, with the Church of Ireland being disestablished in 1871 and the Church in Wales in 1920.
The word antidisestablishmentarianism is often quoted as being one of the longest English words that has an actual meaning (as opposed to words that were made up for the purpose of being long).
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 Brainboost - antidisestablishmentarianism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Antidisestablishmentarianism is usually used as an example of one of the longest English words that actually means something.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is said to be the longest word in the English langu..
Antidisestablishmentarianism is one of my favorite words and it is very handy to denounce government growth.
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 Urban Dictionary: antidisestablishmentarianism
Opposition to the disestablishment of a state religion (i.e., favoring the continued state support of a particular creed), esp.in regard to debates concerning the Church of England in the 19th century.
Actually, antidisestablishmentarianism is the belief held by those who are against people who are against the unity of the Church of England and the Monarchy.
Originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, but in modern day, antidisestablishmentarianism means opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country.
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 antidisestablishmentarianism
antidisestablishmentarianism = the belief that the queen should be head of the church of England
The boy was taught the 100 meanings of antidisestablishmentarianism.
The headmaster was uncertain about he should talk about floccinaucinihilipilification or antidisestablishmentarianism in the assembly.
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 cranbrook |•| 2D DESIGN
Antidisestablishmentarianism takes the basic tenets of Lars von Trier's Dogme 95, applies it to graphic design, and follows it even more dogmatically than Dogme.
Antidisestablishmentarianism takes academia's current spineless fear of irrelevance and strives for an irrelevance taken to such an extreme that it folds back upon itself like that inimitable, inevitable, infinite dragon and eats itself - simultaneously becoming so relevant it hurts.
Antidisestablishmentarianism creates a design idiom that is steeped in the minute esotericism of the most esoteric design and produces a design for designers even designers cannot understand.
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 antidisestablishmentarianism@Everything2.com
Antidisestablishmentarianism can still be defined as the longest non-medical word in the English language, depending on how the word floccinaucinihilipilification is derived - some dictionaries have claimed that the word should be hyphenated, which would make it shorter.
Antidisestablishmentarianism isn't too badly defined, as disestablishment originally meant the seperation of church and state, and so the longer word emerged as a natural, if contrived, way of grouping people who were against it politically.
This word, antidisestablishmentarianism was given to the two final national contestants; one missed and one didn't and we had a new Spelling Bee World Champion.
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 What is Antidisestablishmentarianism?
Eventually in the 1870s, the antidisestablishmentarianism movement failed in Ireland, and the Anglican Church was no longer the state church.
Antidisestablishmentarians held out much longer in Wales, and the church there was not disestablished until the 1920s.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is not actually the longest word in the English language.
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 History: What is antidisestablishmentarianism? - CliffsNotes
The word antidisestablishmentarianism grew to its immense length as religious and political events unfolded in England.
Antidisestablishmentarianism won out in England, and to this day, the monarch of Great Britain is also the "Supreme Governor of the Church of England." The movement eventually failed, however, in Ireland and Wales.
Indeed, it could be said that the opposite of disestablishmentarianism is both antidisestablishmentarianism and establishmentarianism, so they mean approximately the same thing.
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 ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM MUST END. STOP GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS & THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ...
“Antidisestablishmentarianism” is one of my favorite words and it is very handy to denounce government growth.
Other enjoyable options are "Stop antidisestablishmentarianism!" or "Oppose antidisestablishmentarianism!" or “The government is full of socialists and their antidisestablismentarianism makes me retch.” Similar quips are infinite.
The dictionary definition of “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is: opposition to the disestablishment of a church or religious body; specifically, strong opposition to the disestablishment of a State Church, as was manifested in Ireland in 1869, when Gladstone disestablished the Irish Church (Protestant) to which all the people, including Roman Catholics, had been compelled to pay tithes.
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 Antidisestablishmentarianism - A Jason interpretation of the word.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Antidisestablishmentarianism - A Jason interpretation of the word.
Antidisestablishmentarianism: A big word, a pain in the butt, the word doesn’t have anything to anything that’s meaningful.
First, antidisestablishmentarianism, has the amazing ability to be self-destructive, quite a feat when it just a word.
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 ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political philosophy that is opposed to the separation of church and state.
The term originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church of England; antidisestablismentarians were opposed to proposals to remove its status as the state church of England.
The term has largely fallen into disuse, although the issue itself is still current.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Students discover lost word
One of the longest words in the English language has been returned to the dictionary after a group of students found it missing.
The students at the centre in Oxford Road were asked by their tutor, Ruby Radwan, to sing Happy Birthday at the same time as writing the word antidisestablishmentarianism.
antidisestablishmentarianism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England (rare): but popularly cited as an example of a long word".
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 Antidisestablishmentarianism!
I am not sure if it is the plethora of prefixes and suffixes which adorn antidisestablishmentarianism or the meaning of the word.
In its day antidisestablishmentarianism was reputed to be the longest word in the English language.
It derives from disestablish, a verb, which means: Undo establishment of deprive (Church) of State connexion, depose from official position.
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 The Mavens' Word of the Day
My question is about the infamously prefix-laden "antidisestablishmentarianism," which I first saw in, of all places, an episode of "The Jetsons." Simply lobbing off the ends and interpreting the negatives and double negatives wherever I can, I've taken it to mean 'the opposition to the deprivation of status'.
And finally, the belief of such a person is known as antidisestablishmentarianism, which we define in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary as 'opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England'.
The various shorter forms of these words, which I am getting tired of typing, appear throughout the nineteenth century; the longest word, which appears as the title of this entry, is found by the beginning of this century.
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 Sandhill Trek: Antidisestablishmentarianism
That word with all its buried allusions to reverse-transcriptase and pheromonal import will of course be as opaque in meaning to the general public as "antidisestablishmentarianism" was to us fourth graders.
This is a rope of word, a word uncoiling to great length, a twisting highway of a word with reversals of meaning and extensions of understanding implicit in every prefix and suff.
The first bill proposing the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales was presented to parliament in 1870, less than a year after the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Ireland - an interesting example of the impact of Irish politics upon Wales.
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 Antidisestablishmentarianism is said to be the longest word in the English langu...
Antidisestablishmentarianism is said to be the longest word in the English langu...
Antidisestablishmentarianism is said to be the longest word in the English language.
It could be argued that the current crop of extreme right wing conservative (so called Christians) are actively antidisestablishmentarians both in the UK and the US.
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 antidisestablishmentarianism - definition of antidisestablishmentarianism - yawiktionary.com
A political philosophy opposed to the separation of church and state, esp. opponents in 19th century England against separating the Anglican church from the state.
Click the speaker below to hear how the word "antidisestablishmentarianism" sounds when it is pronunced.
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 Antidisestablishmentarianism
Btw, Antidisestablishmentarianism isn't the longest word in english dictionaries.
Actuallly guys, Antidisestablishmentarianism means 'the philosophy that is against he separation of church and state'.
I studied it years back, it was a bonus spelling word in my grade 7 class and I looked it up out of curiosity.
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