Donatist

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:12:16

Don"a*tist (?), n. [LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.] Eccl. Hist.

A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

 

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