nullifidiann.adj.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 8^v To be plaine, I am a Nulla fidian, and there are many of our secte.

1596 J. Harington Anat. Metamorph. Aiax sig. Ddij^v Then all sayd, they would condemne mee as a neuter or nulli fidian, except I gaue a better answere.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies Epist. sig. A2 The Atheisticall Nullifidian nothing regardeth the assoyling of Ecclesiasticall controversies.

1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xii. 229 Sure to be so a solifidian, is to be a nullifidian.

1775 J. Howie Biographia Scoticana Pref. p. xxiii Some sceptical nullifidian or other may be ready to object.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 45 In their eyes, a lukewarm Presbyterian was little better than a Prelatist, an Anti-covenanter, and a Nullifidian.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iii. 65 In case thou should'st hollo for assistance, as yonder Nullifidian hath it.

1894 Catholic World Jan. 464 Who tried their utmost to induce the state to adopt Protestantism as the State Religion, and force the children of all other and no creeds, Catholic, Jewish, and Nullifidians of every sort, to be daily indoctrinated with a religious principle they repudiate as false?

1994 Sun-Sentinel (Fort-Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 16 a Religion arms the faithful with a comprehensive strategy for living; denying religion leaves the nullifidians in a personal void.

1995 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 11 Aug. 8 Some newspaper nullifidians—God forgive us—find bliss in dispensing gloom-and-doom philosophy if it's moralistic and accusatory.

1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends III. ii Lou. Out you Nullifidian, don't let the Gentleman sweare, tak't vpon his bare word. Wise. Nay Sir, I'le belieue you without swearing.

1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. v. sig. E5 The very Ale-house-keeper..was now grown such a Nullifidian, that he would not believe us for small-beer.

1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 27 533 Sir John Moore was professedly a nullifidian in Spanish energy and patriotism.

1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. iv. 56 Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but..a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the ‘Pilgrim's Progress’.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 258 A Solifidean-Christian is a Nullifidean-Pagan.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 51 I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan.

1885 A. C. Swinburne Misc. (1886) 175 The sceptic, or in the phrase of Wither's time the nullifidian Nott.

1894 Catholic World July 446 It has come to be the popular notion that the American state is Nullifidian.

1965 W. Kingsley Lit. Rebel i. 8 Since Diogenes' literary works..have not survived we can see that his greatest creation was a nullifidian style.

1986 Early Music 14 413/3 The sceptics are dismissed as a ‘nullifidian rearguard’.

2013 F. Grandena in M. Gott & T. Schilt Open Roads, Closed Borders ii. 47 One of the most overt references to paganism as an expression of nullifidian opposition occurs in the enclosed, slightly claustrophobic space of Isabelle's car.