stercoranism

From stercoranist +‎ -ism (suffix forming the names of schools of thought).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːkəɹənɪzm̩/, /ˈstɜːkɹənɪzm̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝkəɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˈstɝkɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
• Hyphenation: ster‧co‧ran‧i‧sm

stercoranism (uncountable)

1. The belief or doctrine of stercoranists.
   • 1758, “Essay III”, in Considerations upon War, upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], →OCLC, section VI, footnote h, page 147:

     Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt breaks the faſt; vvhich opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoraniſm.

• stercoranism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “stercoranism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.