English Explanatory Dictionary

Abrahamite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a sect of deists in Bohemia in the 18th century, professing to be followers of the pre-circumcised Abraham.
  2. A member of a ninth-century group of Syrian monks who were exterminated by the iconoclastic emperor Theophilus.

Word forms

Abrahamite Abrahamites

Etymology

From Abraham + -ite.

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