Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a (Roman Catholic) congregation; a congreganist.
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Examples
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-- In ten years public secular instruction gains 12,229 schools and 973,380 pupils; public congregationist instruction loses 5,218 schools and 550,639 pupils.
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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-- Following upon this secularization, 2,839 private congregationist schools are opened as competitors and count in 1889-90,
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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-- At Belley, the teachers consist of the congregationist of
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Commission on Statistics: "In 1878-9 the number of congregationist schools was 23,625 with 2,301,943 pupils."] [Footnote 63103: Bureaux of the direction of public instruction, budget of 1892.] [Footnote 63104: "Exposition universelle" of 1889.
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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On the other hand, private congregationist instruction gains 3,790 schools and 413,979 pupils. "] [Footnote 63105: Turlin, ibid, p. 61.
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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"From 1878-79 to 1889-90, 5,063 public congregationist schools are transformed into secular schools or suppressed; at the time of their transformation they enumerated in all 648,824 pupils.
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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