a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 66 (MED) In þese dayes sprong þo too heresies, þe Priscilianistes and Pelagianes.

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 fourth hundred,..the Priscillianistes, the Messalians, the Pelagians.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 506 Manie..amongst the Christians haue imagined that the soules of men are the substance of God. I omit to speake of the Heretikes, as the Priscilianists [Fr. les Priscilianistes], and some others that haue been of this opinion.

a1633 Epigrammes 20 Th'Marcionistes, Manicheans and Priscillianistes, With the Seleucians, did (the Church to spight) Keepe it, yet n'ere durst bring it forth to light.

1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet lxxiv. 95 Our Quakers are much like the Priscillianists.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 388/2 Ridiculous mysteries of the Priscillianists, those antient heretics.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiii. 404 Some Donatists..and Priscillianists..have in like manner usurped the honours of Catholic saints and martyrs.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 528/2 The doctrine of astrology was among the errors imputed to the Priscillianists.

1895 Eng. Hist. Rev. 10 529 The reason for the British churches breaking the Lenten fast at the end of moon 13, Saturday, is..in order to avoid the error of the Manichees and Priscillianists, who fasted upon the Lord's day.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxix. 245 The Priscillianists combined Sabellianism, Arianism, Manicheeism, and Gnosticism.

1991 W. L. Wakefield & A. P. Evans Heresies of High Middle Ages Notes 671 St. Martin..refused Communion to bishops who had consented to the slaughter of Priscillianists condemned by the Emperor Maximin for allegedly practicing magic.

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 73 The Priscillianist hereticks reigned almost uncontrouled in Spain.

1887 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. IV. 476/2 A specimen of the Priscillianist allegorical treatment of the Christian Scriptures.

1900 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 354 The smaller Priscillianist movement in Spain.

1947 H. V. Livermore Hist. Portugal i. 14 The Priscillianist bishops endeavoured to secure their recognition in Rome.

1992 R. Leith et al. Messianic Legacy (BNC) 160 The Celtic Church drew upon a broad spectrum of texts beyond Rome's sphere of influence—Nazarean texts, Nestorian texts, Priscillianist texts, [etc.].

1685 Bp. S. Parker Relig. & Loyalty: 2nd Pt. 146 For though there are some Laws enacted against the Priscillianists by Honorius and Theodosius the younger..yet these related not to the followers of Priscillian in Spain, but to a branch of the old Gnostick Heresie, that had their name from Priscilla, and was synonymous with the old name of Phryges.

1854 J. L. Mosheim Hist. Commentaries on State of Christianity 500 We there find the Montanists denounced by a law of Honorius..where they are termed Phrygians and Priscillianists, from Priscilla, one of the female converts to Montanism.

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 446/2 The Priscillianists are a later subdivision of the Montanists, called from a second Priscilla.