Marcionistn.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 498 The sect of Cerdyonysts and of Marcionystis, whiche helden that ij Goddis ben, oon good, and an other yuel.

1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles 50 And then the Arryane maye be saued by his faythe, and..the Marcyoniste by hys faythe.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft i. i. 2 The Martionists acknowledged one God the authour of good things, and another the ordeiner of euill.

1658 J. Mumford Qvestion of Qvestions ii. 51 About S. Matthewes Ghospel the Manicheans, Marcionists, Cerdonists, &c. did not only doubt, but flatly rejected it.

1742 L. Brown in tr. J. B. Bossuet Hist. Variations Protestant Churches I. Pref. p. vi The Marcionists have equal power with Marcion.

1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. ii. 192 It is said to have been the doctrine of the Marcionists and Manichees, that there were three unconnected independent Beings in the Divine nature.

1846 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (ed. 5) 589 The disciples of the heresiarch added many other errors to his tenets, and were called Marcionists.

1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1402/2 Theodoret tells us, that..he had converted more than one thousand Marcionists.

1988 J. F. D'Amico Theory & Pract. Renaissance Textual Crit. 168 Beatus found abundant material on the Valentinians and the Marcionists in Tertullian's treatises.