catholicon

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Overbeck and Cornelius in Rome, with their pre-Raphaelite, old-German and catholicizing tendencies, became the leaders of a productive school.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

In the second group, there was a decentralizing, catholicizing tendency, and, above all, a greater individual creative ability.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

He is said, to have particularly had in view, the catholicizing, as it was termed, the northern part, of Germany.

From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles

Matthew is not only in its whole structure a composite gospel, but shows in high degree the catholicizing tendency of the times.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner