Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a sect founded in England by Ludowick Muggleton and John Reeve about 1651.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired.
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- noun A member of a small
Protestant Christian sect most prominent in 17th and 18th century England. - adjective Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the only soup I can get is at the Muggletonian soup kitchen, I'll eat Muggletonian soup and like it.
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You write: I do not personally see Blake as a Muggletonian in any interesting sense, although I respect the effort to see him as one for honoring the double enigmas of Blake's terrific oddity and his kinship with marginal others.
Introduction 2003
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For that matter, there were others on the beach, who might have had more sympathy with his murderous theme and Muggletonian tradition.
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For that matter, there were others on the beach, who might have had more sympathy with his murderous theme and Muggletonian tradition.
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The Muggletonian sect have a very odd way of dealing with people.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Now I hold that he whose testimony would be accepted in behalf of the Muggletonian doctrine has a right to be heard against it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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You may not have to make your bow to a Venus Anadyomene -- but how will you be able to face the whole Muggletonian synod?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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None of them ever hesitated to call a spade a spade, and some of them denounced slavery and all its sympathizers with the vigor and picturesqueness of a Muggletonian or Fifth Monarchy man of Cromwell's time execrating his religious adversaries.
Frederick Douglass 1932
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Muggletonian, and the best soldier whether he was a Wesleyan or an
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The Muggletonian exclaimed, and Landless turned upon the forger.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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