† Monasteriann.adj.
Church History. Obsolete. rare.
A. n.
A member of the Anabaptist congregation which controlled Münster from early 1534 until their overthrow by a besieging army in June 1535, practising community of goods and polygyny, and (from September 1534) recognizing their leader John of Leiden as a king whose reign would inaugurate that of Christ.
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1641 T. Hayne tr. M. Adam Life & Death Dr. Martin Luther 93 Luther wrote..a Preface to Vrbanus Rhegius book against the Monasterians.
1704 Dict. All Religions Monasterians, certain Hereticks, who followed John Bockeld a Taylor of Leyden in Holland, Head of the Anabaptists, and King of Munster.]
B. adj.
Of or belonging to Münster, spec. designating a member of the Anabaptist congregation which developed there from 1532 until its dispersal in 1535.
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1647 R. Baillie Anabaptism 12 Betwixt the Monasterian Anabaptists arose the first discord... The discord lasted for divers years, till the Monasterians expired.
1654 Jus Divinum Ministerii Evangelici i. vi. 112 May all be Magistrates? Away with such fanatick Monasterian conceits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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