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Traskite Ch. Hist.|ˈtræskaɪt| Also 7 Thraskite, Threskite. [f. Trask, a surname + -ite1.] A follower of John Trask, who c 1617 began to advocate certain Jewish ceremonies, including the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath; now represented by the Seventh-day Baptists. Also † ˈTraskist Obs.
1618T. Adams Bad Leaven Wks. 1861 II. 343 There is a fourth leaven,..the mixing of law with gospel... This leaven might well..have moulded away, if there had not been a late generation of Thraskites to devour it as bread. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 54 Precisians, Disciplinarians, Iudaicall Thraskists. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature x. §1. 78 Our Iudaizing Threskites. 1634(Apr. 1) Order Commiss. Eccles. Courts, [To take measures for the suppression of] Brownists, Anabaptists, Arians, Traskists, Familists [etc.]. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Thraskites, are the followers of John Thraske. 1694E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. iii. (ed. 18) 377 Traskists, now called Seventh-day-men, who keep the Jewish Sabboth. 1874Blunt Dict. Sects, Traskites. |