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Webster 1913 Edition

Donatist

Don′a-tist

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Donatist

DONATIST

,
Noun.
One of the sect founded by Donatus. They held that theirs was the only pure church, and that baptism and ordination, unless by their church, were invalid.

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