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Muggletonian, a. and n.|ˈmʌg(ə)lˈtəʊnɪən|
Also 7 Mugultonian.
[f. Muggleton (see below) + -ian.]
a. n. A member of the sect founded c 1651 by Lodowicke Muggleton and John Reeve.
b. adj. Belonging or pertaining to this sect. Hence Muggleˈtonianism.
The belief of the sect rests on the personal inspiration of its founders, who claimed to be the ‘two witnesses’ of Rev. xi. 3–6.
a1670Rust Disc. Truth (1682) 158 The Blasphemies of the present Muggletonians. 1687T. Brown in Dk. Buckhm.'s Wks. (1705) II. 113 Here started up Presbyterians, there Mugultonians, one making God damn all but themselves; and the other saving him the Labour, and doing it themselves. 1729Fielding Author's Farce iii. Wks. 1882 VIII. 229 A Muggletonian dog stabbed me. 1796Colquhoun Police Metrop. 374 [In a list of Meeting houses for Dissenters] 4 for Muggletonians. 1868Pall Mall G. 5 May 8/2 The death is announced of Mr. Joseph Gandar..and it is added that ‘he was a sincere member of the sect called Muggletonians for upwards of sixty years’. There is, it is understood, only one place of worship in London connected with this extraordinary sect of religionists, and not three more in the whole of England. 1881N. & Q. 6th Ser. IV. 431/2 In externals Muggletonianism resembles Quakerism, rejecting as it does all symbolical religion. |