Rant"er (?), n.
1.
A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
2. Eccl. Hist. (a)
One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(b)
One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
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