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Satanist|ˈseɪtənɪst|
Also 6–7 sathanist(e.
[f. Satan + -ist. Cf. F. Sataniste.]
1. One who is regarded as an adherent of Satan.
1559J. Aylmer Harborowe H j b, The Anabaptistes, with infinite other swarmes of Satanistes. 1565Harding Confut. Jewel ii. ix. 81 b, Be ye Zuinglians, Arians,..Anabaptistes, Caluinistes, or Sathanistes? 1589Nashe Martins Months Minde H 4 b, By nature an Athiest, By arte a Machiuelist, In summe a Sathanist, loe here his hire. 1662Hibbert Body of Div. i. 16 By profession a Christian, by conversation a Satanist. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 570 The aboriginal races of just men distinguished themselves by this very title, Alibenim, theogonists, or God's sons, from the atheistical Sathanists, or evil-seekers.
2. A Euchite.
1874Blunt's Dict. Sects, etc. 518.
3. A Satan-worshipper; spec. one of a sect alleged to have existed in France in the latter part of the 19th century.
1896Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Life xxi. (1901) 323 There are two sects, the Satanists and the Luciferists—and they pray to these names as Gods. 1897J. McCabe Twelve Yrs. in Monast. v. 98 It is believed on the Continent that apostate priests frequently consecrate for the Satanists and Free⁓masons. 1926C. Connolly Let. 16 May in Romantic Friendship (1975) 126, I think he's a satanist. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 899/2 Such modern satanists as Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner. 1976Eastern Even. News (Norwich) 29 Nov., The sisters..are on the trail of a group of Satanists, believed to have caused a young man's death.
4. A writer of the ‘Satanic school’.
1921Glasgow Herald 9 Apr. 6/3 Thus he [sc. Baudelaire] is a Satanist in the Miltonic sense of a rebel against stifling power. |