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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Gallicanism
    n 1: a religious movement originating among the French Roman
         Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal
         control and the achievement by each nation of individual
         administrative autonomy of the church

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gallicanism \Gal"li*can*ism\, n.
   The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the
   Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to
   restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the
   power of the national church. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
   [1913 Webster]

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