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Sarabaite Eccl. Hist.|særəˈbeɪaɪt|
Also 4 Serabite, 6 Sarrabaite, 6– Sarabite.
[ad. eccl. L. Sarabaīta (Cassianus, 4–5th c., who says that the word is Egyptian; but no light has been thrown on it from that language).
Sarabite is the form commonly found in English translations of the Rule of St. Benedict.]
One of a class of monks in the early Church who lived together in small bands without rule or superior. † Also as adj., applied to certain followers of the Franciscan rule (see quot. c 1380), prob. the Fratricelli.
138.Wyclif Wks. (1880) 12 Ȝif þei pursuen to þe deþ pore freris serabitis, þat kepen fraunseis reule and testament to þe riȝte vndyrstondynge and wille of fraunceis wiþ outen glose of antecristis clerkis. 1516Bp. Fox Rule of Seynt Benet i, The .iii. kynde, maner, or secte, is of Sarabites, a secte detestable: whiche lyue not vnder obedience of any superior. 1537Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes A vij b, These Sarrabaites be sayd..to come of Ananias & Saphira..by lynage & kynred. 1693‘G. D'Emilianne’ Mon. Ord. viii. 59 Sarabaites, who were a sort of People following only their own Wills. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., St. Benedict gives a frightful Idea of these Sarabaites in the First Chapter of his Rule. 1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. iv. ii. iii. §15 Those wandering fanatics, or rather impostors, whom the Egyptians called Sarabaites. 1801Ranken Hist. France I. 224 The Sarabaites, who associated two or three together, lived sometimes in solitude, but always without rule or order. 1904Gasquet Eng. Mon. Life 8 The Gyrovagi and Sarabites. |