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Ro·man·ist

 (rō′mə-nĭst)
n.
1. Offensive One who professes Roman Catholicism.
2. A student of or authority on ancient Roman law, culture, and institutions.
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Romanist

(ˈrəʊmənɪst)
n
1. (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a Church, esp the Church of England, who favours or is influenced by Roman Catholicism
2. (Roman Catholic Church) a Roman Catholic
3. (Education) a student of classical Roman civilization or law
ˌRomanˈistic adj
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Ro•man•ist

(ˈroʊ mə nɪst)

n.
usage: Definition 1 is used by Protestants to show contempt for Roman Catholic practices and tenets.
n.
1. Disparaging. (a term used to refer to a member of the Roman Catholic Church.)
2. one versed in Roman institutions, law, etc.
[1515–25; < New Latin Romanista. See Roman, -ist]
Ro`man•is′tic, adj.
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Adj.1.Romanist - of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"
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References in classic literature ?
[79] Still, on the whole, actors fared better in England than in Romanist France, where Moliere was buried with less ceremony than a favourite dog.
Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.
DEAR FINN,--Your copy will do, but I have had to headline it a bit; and our public would never stand a Romanist priest in the story-- you must keep your eye on the suburbs.
Even though the author does not engage with related scholarship on state formation and infrastructural power, this study will be of interest not just to Romanists, but also to those interested in how empires create consensus from a mishmash of regional particularities.
(18) Kniha je urcena predevsim vysokoskolskym studentum portugalstiny [for university students of Portuguese], uzitecne informace v ni vsak nepochybne naleznou i dalsi romaniste a lingviste [other Romanists and linguists].
'Excepting the houses of Romanists, he has discovered but six without a Bible, five of which have since been supplied'." (10) Then in the report on the distribution of the Bible through the Pacific, tensions with the Catholic bishop were reported from Tahiti, where 'the Protestant Missionaries are impeded in their truly Christian work of Scripture translation, and while Popery, countenanced by the dominant power, acquires some measure of strength'." Harding also included highlights from recent Bible Society publications.
The Medieval Theories of the just price: Romanists, Canonists and Theologians in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
The works of some of them came to be known and appreciated by European Romanists. We thus see a continuous relation between Roman law and Romanian law, as well as a constant highlighting of this relation as reflected in the literature and the interest in the study of Roman law at the faculties of law.
See also Peter Lake and Michael Questier, "Appropriation and Rhetoric under the Gallows: Puritans, Romanists, and the State in Early Modern England," Past and Present 153 (1996), 64-107.
The customary law in the different Continental countries treated what we now call foundations in a quite different way than the droit savant (Romanists and Canonists) did; it applied to a greater extent what I have called the "trust-like device".
This essay received very little attention, even among Hellenists and Romanists (WHITE, 1973).
Baldwin, The Medieval Theories of the Just Price: Romanists, Canonists, and Theologians in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1959), 7.