单词 | muggletonian |
释义 | Muggletoniann.adj. Now historical. A. n. A member of an antitrinitarian sect founded by Muggleton and Reeve; a believer in the personal inspiration of Muggleton and Reeve.The sect was founded in the mid 17th cent. and survived until the late 20th cent. Muggleton and his co-founder, John Reeve (1608–58), claimed to be the two prophetic witnesses referred to in Revelation 11:3–6, and maintained that the distinction between the three Persons of the Trinity was merely nominal, and that reason was the creation of the Devil. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Muggletonianism > [noun] > person Muggletoniana1670 a1670 G. Rust Disc. Truth (1682) 158 The Blasphemies of the present Muggletonians. a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 113 Here started up Presbyterians, there Mugultonians, one making God damn all but themselves; and the other saving him the Labour, and doing it themselves. 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 374 [In a list of Meeting houses for Dissenters] 4 for Muggletonians. 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 8/2 The death is announced of Mr. Joseph Gandar..and it is added that ‘he was a sincere member of the sect called Muggletonians for upwards of sixty years’. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. vi. xlvi. 686 But Captain Bittern was a Muggletonian. There were only two hundred and eighty-three of those Saints left alive in the whole world on December 31, 1800. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Mar. 49/4 Given his wide knowledge of the period, its ‘biblical culture’ and its radicals—Ranters, Muggletonians, Quakers, Fifth Monarchy Men, etc.—it is not surprising that Hill should now attend directly to their use of the vernacular Bible for a variety of purposes. B. adj. Belonging to, relating to, or characteristic of this sect. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Muggletonianism > [adjective] Muggletonian1683 1683 R. Dixon Canidia x. 44 What's the Muggletonian Exercise; Where's the Adamites Paradise? 1750 H. Fielding Author's Farce (ed. 3) iii. 44 A Muggletonian Dog stabb'd me. 1852 G. Daniel Democritus in London 175 In your Muggletonian face Gravity was sign of grace. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. vi. xlvi. 682 On Sundays..he would take them all in a hack to the Muggletonian chapel at Spitalfields. 1993 Independent on Sunday 5 Dec. (Review Suppl.) 47/4 The Muggletonian Church was still active not only in Blake's day but well into the present century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1670 |
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