Abeloniann.

1572 C. Carlile Disc. Peter sig. N.ii The Esses, Manaches, Abelonians, and Agapetes, refuse mariage, and to bee saued by their owne woorks, so do the Popes.

?1780 W. Hurd New Universal Hist. Relig. Rites 127/1 The Abelians, or Abelonians, were a very remarkable sect of Heretics, who lived somewhere near Hippo, in Africa.

1798 tr. L. F. L. de Lignac Physical View Man & Woman I. ii. 73 The Abelonians, a sort of heretics who resided in the environs of Hipponus in Africa: the opinions and distinctive customs of these madmen, was, To marry, and nevertheless affectedly profess that they abstained from their wives.

1836 Meerut Univ. Mag. 332 We even may read in St. Austin's book of heresies of a sect styled Abelonians, who..had no bodily heirs, but adopted a male and female child to succeed to their property.

1897 W. Raleigh Let. 17 May (1926) I. 197 Do you know the heresy of the ‘Abelonians’? Bayle has an article on it.

1987 J. A. Brundage Law, Sex & Christian Society iii. 84 Against the Manichaeans, the Abelonians, and the Priscillians, Augustine..upheld the holiness of marriage.