1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Boemia In some places there they pryuyly obserue the secte of the Adamites and Waldenses in the acte of lecherye.

1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse f. 186 The wife of Dulcinus, when she came to suffer death at Nouaria in Lombardie for the filthy heresie of the Adamites, for whiche her husband had died before, song Te Deum.

1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. iv. 23 We know well, what the..Adamites, and Apostoliques held of Matrimonie.

1649 T. Barton King Davids Church-prayer 6 The Prodicians, Adamites, and Cyrenaick Phylosophers affirm praying supervacaneall.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 46 Some Adamits, who as the speech is, Cast off their Petticoats and Breeches.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 14 Aug. 2/1 There was a Sect of Men among us who called themselves Adamites, and appeared in Publick without Cloaths.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Who, on this footing, should have been call'd Adamites, rather than Abelians.

1811 J. L. Bozman Sketch Hist. Maryland 372 Several of them attempted, in the year 1535, at Amsterdam, to revive the doctrine of the Adamites,..whose principal tenet was to strip themselves naked during their religious ceremonies.

1870 Putnam's Mag. July 17/2 Do you suppose that you are in the torrid zone, that you go thus unattired like an Adamite?

1924 Slavonic Rev. 3 282 The extreme wing of the Adamites which Ziz̆ka annihilated in 1421.

2004 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 15 Jan. 21 The Adamites prayed naked and the Messalians fasted for three years.

1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 676/2 Have we got not only a Sansculottist, but an enemy to Clothes in the abstract? A new Adamite?

1908 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay i. 29 Catching yellow jaundice as a sequel to bathing stark naked with three other Adamites.

1581 E. Hutchins Davids Sling against Great Goliah 1 Vnlocke the closet of thy benefits, not onelie to the needie Adamite, but generalie to al.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 18 Error therefore entring into the world with sin among us poore Adamites.

1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 19 Most of them are between five or six foot high, straight bodied, strongly composed, in complexion perfect Adamites.

1740 J. Lookup tr. Berashith vii. 20 Every one of Adam, or every Adamite.

1789 W. Williams Primitive Hist. i. iii. 78 The period of the Adamites will be 7000 years; when all mankind will be extinguished.

1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 187 I ne'er thought till now To hear an Adamite speak riddles to me.

1891 W. H. Campbell Anthropol. for People xv. 322 Its impregnable defence is in the fact that the negro is not an Adamite, but only an intellectual animal.

1920 C. H. Pridgeon Is Hell Eternal? xvi. 169 This understanding of the Scripture relieves the difficulty in reference to the size of the ark. It was a refuge for the men and animals of the world of the Adamites.

1994 N. M. Samuelson Judaism & Doctr. Creation iv. 124 These Adamites are genetically different from the descendants of Noah.

1865 Reader 28 Jan. 98/1 That the Adamites or Caucasians were created, as the Bible tells us, about 6,000 years ago.

1873 D. McCausland Serm. in Stones (ed. 13) iv. 216 The God that created the first of the Adamites of the dust of the ground in Mesopotamia, could have made, and did make, the ancestor of the Negroes of the dust of the ground in Africa.

1911 E. H. Randle Plurality of Human Race iii. 22 The Jews and others also, it seems, were by divine appointment at Jerusalem on that day..to bear testimony of the same to their respective nationalities, all of which, sixteen in number, were of the Caucasian type, or Adamites.

1999 P. C. Almond Adam & Eve in 17th-cent. Thought ii. 58 Later adaptations of pre-Adamitism..would equate men before Adam with non-Caucasians and Adamites with Caucasians.