Cisalpine

From cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps”), in contrast to Rome on the far side of the Alps. Popularised by the Cisalpine Club, founded in 1792.

Cisalpine (plural Cisalpines)

1. (Roman Catholicism, historical) In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.
   • 1897, Wilfrid Ward, The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, volume 1, 2nd edition, page 203, note 1:

     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.

   • 1992, Denis G. Paz, Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England, →ISBN, page 83:

     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.

   • 2013, Francis Young, English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829‎, →ISBN:

     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.

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