abrahamite

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One of a Christian sect named from its founder, Abraham of Antioch (ninth century), and charged with Paulician (Gnostic) errors.
2. n. One of a sect of Deists in Bohemia, who came into prominence about 1782, and were banished to Hungary by the Emperor Joseph II. for nonconformity. They seem to have professed the religion of Abraham before his circumcision, to have believed in God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, but to have rejected baptism and the doctrine of the Trinity, and to have acknowledged no scripture but the decalogue and the Lord's prayer.