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† ˈCatharan Obs. Also Caˈtharian. [f. Gr. καθαροί, med.L. Cathari, ‘the pure’, the name assumed by the Novatian heretics, and by other sects later. Cf. F. Cathare.] One who professes superior purity; a puritan; a name applied to various sects, as the Novatians, Paulicians, Waldenses; also, like Catharist, to the English Puritans. So Cathaˈrinian.
1574Whitgift Def. Answ. i. Wks. 1851 I. 172 Puritans or Catharans. 1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 138 The Catharans..which think Gods people be regenerate into a pure and angelical state. 1656Blount Glossogr., Catharians, were a branch of the Novatian Hereticks. 1657Gaule Sap. Just. 10 So [maintain] the Pighians and Catharinians. |