1575 N. Bacon Let. 30 Dec. in Official Papers (1915) 187 The judges..were not all of one mynde towchinge thoffence of the Martynists.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Martinisti, martinists, of Martins profession.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 54 Martinists, Prophesiers, Solifidians.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 194 The criticisms of the Martinists (whom we may suppose the members of the church of England).

a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 52 When Martin Luther first grew into fame, His Followers obtain'd a double Name: Some call'd 'em Martinists, and some again Express'd by Lutherans the self-same Men.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. C3^v Twas a mad knaue and a Martinist, that diuided his sermon into 34. parts for memorie sake.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C4 Some gally gascoynes or a shipmans hose like the Anabaptists.., others with the Martinists a hood with two faces to hide their hypocrisie.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. vi, in Wks. (1662) 14 Tell the Martinist of the High-Priests great authority..what other thing doth serve his turn but the self-same shift.

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα i. v. 61 After such..Satyrick Pasquils (worthy of such Martenists) came open menacings of Princes and Parlaments, Priests and People too.

1928 E. A. Gerrard Elizabethan Drama II. viii. 211 Nash [was] employed to write..pamphlets, then plays, against the Martinists.

1967 Amer. Hist. Rev. 72 580 References in the writings of the Separatist Barrow and the ablest of the anti-Martinists, Nashe, make it clear that both believed Penry to be Martin.

1994 Hutchinson Encycl. 732/3 He [sc. Nashe] was rapidly drawn into the Martin Marprelate controversy..and wrote at least three attacks on the Martinists.

1911 Mod. Lang. Notes 26 197/1 I find him mentioned in this connection as early as 1589 in Lyly's Martinist pamphlet ‘Pappe with an hatchet’.

1950 Columbia Encycl. (ed. 2) 1226/2 A flood of both Martinist and anti-Martinist literature followed, to which Nashe, Lyly, and Richard Harvey are supposed to have contributed.

1967 Amer. Hist. Rev. 72 579 McGinn believes that Penry was not merely a prime mover in the Martinist conspiracy but the sole author of the tracts themselves.

1995 Shakespeare Q. 46 57 Even the earl of Essex (known as a Puritan sympathizer) allegedly waved a Martinist tract before his queen, demanding ‘What will become of me?’.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 179 How many Magicians, Astrologers, [etc.]..have had their..Martinists, Maisterels, and Ministrels; their Imps, and Familiars, as well as other Witches?

1802 F. Jeffrey in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 14 He [sc. Mounier] assures his readers, that he is not himself either a Free-Mason or a Martiniste.

1814 R. Pinkerton in tr. Metropolitan Platon Present State Greek Church in Russia App. 336 The Martinists are mystical religionists, who have fallen into all the depths of error contained in the metaphysical and airy dreams of Swedenborg, Behmen, Martin, Ekartshausen, and other such mystical writers.

1850 Æ. McD. Dawson tr. J. M. de Maistre Pope i. xvii. 100 Do the Twelve Apostles please you less, perchance, than the Theophilanthropists or the Martinists?

1858 J. B. Marsden Dict. Christian Churches & Sects II. 233 The purest of..Russian sects arose under the Chevalier St. Martin. The efforts of the Martinists were directed chiefly to practical religion.

1939 Mod. Lang. Notes 54 19 He [sc. Cazotte] went to live in the village of Pierry and became a devout Martinist.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 67/2 There was no kind of connection between him and the martinists or Freemasons.

1942 E. P. Shaw Jacques Cazotte 115 Le Diable amoureux was written..when Martinist ideas had not sobered the piquancy of his talents.

1965 Economist 28 Aug. 788/3 How many people..are any the wiser for being told..that the ‘martinist element’ predominated in Russian masonic lodges in the 1760s?

1993 Gnosis Winter (advt.) Attention all Martinists and Mystics! Authentic Martinist Order information, books, and lodge/group supplies for all Martinist branches.