--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
> The earliest citation in the OED is from the 15th c.:
>
> He was a constant Catholike,
> All Lollard he hatyt and Heretike.
>
> [Andrew of Wyntoun, ca. 1425, _Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland_ 9:26]
> ...
Thank you very much, Piotr. It was a discussion with an adept of a
Russian pseudo-scientific movement (The New Chronology,
http://www.newchrono.ru, in case you don't already have it in your
kookie sites collection) that made me to ask this question. The
movement was found in early 80s by a matematician Anatoly Fomenko.
One of it's main points is that all the sources on European (and
patrly human in general) history older than the 16th c. are
falsified, and dead languages are created by falsifiers as well. His
point was that the word _catholic_ can't be found in English sources
before 16th c.
Sergei