† Biddeliann.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A follower of John Biddle (died 1662), styled the father of the English Unitarians.
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1780 Biographia Britannica (ed. 2) II. 307/2 (note) The adherents to Mr. Biddle were called Biddellians; but this name was lost in the more common appellation of Socinians, or, what they preferred, Unitarians.
1882–3 Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Rel. Knowl. I. 296.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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