Montanistn.adj.

1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον iv. f.134 At last he fell into many errors..and became a Montanust.

1574 R. Bristow Briefe Treat. Plaine Wayes To Rdr. sig. *iiij In the first hundred yeares after Christ, were these false masters aforesaid... In the second,..the Alogians, the Montanistes, the Angelikes.

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 69 Some Arians, Nestorians, Monothelites, Montanists, denied the souls immortality.

1671 F. S. tr. J. Daille XLIX. Serm. Colossians ii. 2 The stations, the xerofagies, and other disciplines of the Montanists.

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iv. 374 Tertullian..began to incline towards the Errors of the Montanists.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 225 Those Montanists were call'd also Cataphrygians, Spiritualists, Apostolicks, [etc.].

1833 T. Moore Trav. Irish Gentleman in Search Relig. I. 263 The Montanists..took it on the word of their founder that he was the very Paraclete promised by the Redeemer.

1897 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 7 442 The church was trying to compile an authoritative canon, in order to give unity and stability to herself,..as against the innovations of..Montanists and others.

1930 W. R. Inge Christian Ethics & Mod. Problems iii. 114 The Montanists attached special importance to ‘xerophagy’, which means abstinence from anything juicy or liquid, except water.

1992 C. G. Flegg Gathered under Apostles i. 3 He was prepared to recognize some good in the Catholic Apostolic body..but he saw them as latter-day Montanists.

a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 29 The Great and brave Turtullian..Unto Montanist Errours is inclin'de.

1859 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church (an. 1–311) 300 The Montanist prophets.

1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians (1876) 98 She [sc. Phrygia] was the mother of Montanist enthusiasm.

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 264/1 The opposition comes, not from a Catholic bishop, but from a Montanist heretic.

1956 Philos. Q. 6 214 The inference drawn by..Tertullian, in a defence of Montanist innovations, is that except for the Rule of Faith all theoretical and practical truths are open to revision.

1997 Church Times 12 Dec. 12/1 Primitive Christianity, as exemplified in the Gospels, and extending as late as the Montanist movement in the 70s, was the heir to a great many of the apocalyptic concepts found in the Scrolls.