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Campbellite|ˈkæmbəlaɪt|
1. A follower of Alexander Campbell, a religious teacher of Virginia. Also attrib.
1830Massachusetts Spy 22 Dec. (Th.), Elder Rigdon, one of the early Mormons, is described as having been ‘a Campbelite leader of some notoriety’. 1834J. M. Peck Gaz. Illinois i. 91 The Cambellites, or ‘Reformers’..have several traveling, and a number of stationary preachers. 1847J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mountains 23 A Campbellite preacher, named Foster, was reading a hymn. 1881N.Y. Nation XXXII. 401 We are quite sure these are the doctrines of the Campbellites. 1881W. M. Thayer Log-Cab. to White Ho. ii, Abram Garfield..united with a comparatively new sect, called Disciples, though Campbellites was a name by which they were sometimes known, in honour of the founder of the sect, Alexander Campbell.
2. transf. A sunfish of the Mississippi region.
1872Harper's Mag. July 315/2 ‘What do you call those fish?’ ‘Campbellites,’ promptly responded the boy. 1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 407 The Crappie—Pomoxys annularis... Other names are..‘New Light’ and ‘Campbellite’ in Kentucky and Indiana. |