Circumcellionn.
/səːkəmˈsɛlɪən/ 1. (a) plural. Church History. ‘A name given to the Donatist fanatics in Africa during the 4th cent., from their habit of roving from house to house.’ Dict. Christian Antiq. (b) Vagabond monks who roved from place to place.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [noun] > wandering
Circumcellion1564
gyrovague1801
1564 Briefe Exam. xxxx b You shall reade of the Donatistes..Circumcellions, and Papistes.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. iii. 752 The Circumcellions in Africke, with a mad crueltie made away themselues,..and seduced others to doe the like.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. iv. 24/1 There was the Phrensie of the Old Circumcellions in those Quakers.
1872 A. W. Hutton Our Position as Catholics 31 The brutal violence of the hardly human Circumcellions.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Circumcellion, a tauerne hunter.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies viii. 58 A great part of a long winter night is past over by him and the rest of his devout Circumcellions [etc.].
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