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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant of Capernaum.
  • noun A designation applied figuratively, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to those who, from John vi. 52, 59, held to the doctrine of transubstantiation in its gross form. Also Capharnaite.

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