1580 W. Fulke Discov. Daungerous Rocke in Retentiue 314 The olde heresies,..the Ossenes and Marcosianes in their reliques and straunge tounge in prayers.

1587 T. Rogers Eng. Creede: 2nd Pt. 29 Some, as the Marcosians, at the ministration of Baptisme, haue vsed certaine Hebrue wordes.

1661 J. Davies tr. D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls 65 The Church therefore..expressed her self..By St. Irenæus, who set forth, in the same colours, one of the Prophetesses of the Marcosians.

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. ii. iii. 349 His Followers, which were call'd Marcosians, were chiefly about the Rhosne in Gaul.

1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians 209/1 The baptismal formula of the Marcosians.

1978 K. W. Noakes in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy II. ii. i. 90 We learn of the use of anointing in Marcionite initiation.., among the Marcosians..and in the Valentinian gnostic circles.

1715 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ IV. xi. ii. 160 Those who were called Marcosian Heretics.

1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects (new ed.) 298/2 The Marcosian mystery of the alphabet.

1983 Valley Independent (Pennsylvania) 19 Aug. Now, in a new frenzy of Marcosian democratic principles, the Manila government is attacking the press.

1986 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 10 Apr. a06 Twenty years of Marcosian misrule made us more materialistic.

1988 WorldPaper (Nexis) Oct. 6 The Philippine bishops..were at the forefront of the struggle. In a series of pastoral letters, they denounced Marcosian abuses—the torture and protracted detention of political prisoners, widespread graft, cheating at elections, and so on.

1997 Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. Diana must have observed all this that afternoon: the monogrammed memories of status, the Marcosian collection of shoes, the art of living well in exile.