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Webster 1913 Edition


Abelonian

{

A-bel′i-an

,

A′bel-ite

,

Aˊbel-o′ni-an

, }
Noun.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.