Westcottian

English

Etymology

Westcott +‎ -ian

Adjective

Westcottian (comparative more Westcottian, superlative most Westcottian)

1. Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.
   • 1907, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 409:

     Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so.

   • 2005, Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen, After the Victorians, page 71:

     He continued to promote the Westcottian vision of a Christian synthesis of East and West […]