2 entries under this word
a. [Fr. latitudinaire.] 1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. 2. Thinking or acting at large, or without respect of the usual standards of belief or opinion; lax in religious principles or views; as, latitudinarian opinions or doctrines.
n. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
Sense 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed at that time.
They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation, and they continued to keep up a good correspondence with those who differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity; from whence they were called “men of latitude;” and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet.
Sense 3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy; or one who indulges an undue latitude of thinking and interpretation.