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Sandemanian, n. and a.|sændɪˈmeɪnɪən|
Also erron. Sandimanian, Sandymanian.
[f. the name Sandeman + -ian.]
n. A member of a religious sect developed by Robert Sandeman (1718–71) from the Glassites. adj. Of or belonging to the Sandemanians.
1766B. Stevens Let. 21 Jan. in E. Stiles Extracts from Itineraries & Other Misc. (1916) 566 In the late times of oclocracy some small damages have been done to the Sandimanian meeting house. 1773Massachusetts Gaz. 8 Apr. 3/1 The Fire likewise communicated to the Sandemanian Meeting House. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 324 In the town of Portsmouth there is a society of Sandemanians. 1810W. Wilson Dissent. Ch. Lond. III. 326 The discipline in this church is conducted pretty much in the same manner as in other Sandemanian societies. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 224 The Sandemanian heresy. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2109 The sect..called ‘Glassites’ in Scotland, and ‘Sandemanians’ in England and America. 1926A. Huxley Let. 10 Aug. (1969) 272 Faraday..was at once a Sandemanian and a Fellow of the Royal Society. 1935B. Russell Relig. & Sci. vii. 171 Faraday was a Sandymanian, but the errors of that sect did not seem, even to him, to be demonstrable by scientific arguments.
Hence Sandeˈmanianism.
1766Causes Pres. Declension Congr. Churches title-p., Interspersed with Reflections on Methodism and Sandimanianism [sic]. 1822J. Brown Mem. J. Hervey 453 Fuller of Kettering..opposes Sandemanianism. |