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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An appellation of different early and medieval religious sects; the Catharists. See Catharist.

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  • noun a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism

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  • Waldenses, of whom a popish historiographer speaketh thus: (252) _Alius in libris cathari dicuntur, quibus respondent qui hodie in Anglia puriorum doctrinam __ præ se ferunt_.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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