1722 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ IX. xx. iii. 65 The Marcianists..kept the Sabbath also a fast. So did also the Sabbatians, Lampetians [etc.].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Sabathians are recorded by Ecclesiastical Historians, as having a great Abhorrence of the Left hand.

1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2090 By his followers, the Sabbatians, he was honored as a martyr.

1892 tr. Grätz's Hist. Jews V. 151 The Sabbatian mystics.

1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 284 The swift rise and the sudden collapse of the Sabbatian movement in 1665 and 1666, from Sabbatai Zevi's proclamation of his messianic mission to his renunciation of Judaism.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Sept. 1024/5 The seventeenth-century mystical Messiah, Sabbatai Sevi (1626–1676), and the Sabbatian heresy named after him.

1892 tr. Grätz's Hist. Jews V. 159 At Venice..a quarrel broke out between the Sabbatians and their opponents.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 99/1 A sect of Muslim Sabbatians—the Dönme of Salonika—survived him [sc. Shabbetai Tzevi].

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 27/1 The antinomian energies of the Sabbatians..did in fact feed the subsequent currents of enlightenment and reform in Western Europe.

1892 tr. Grätz's Hist. Jews V. Index Sabbatianism, revival of, v. 219.

1898 I. Zangwill Dreamers of Ghetto vi. 205 Sabbatianism did not play much part in my early life.

1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 297 Sabbatianism as a movement was long identified with its more extreme, antinomian and nihilistic aspects.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 28/1 The way was thus prepared for the mighty swell of Sabbatianism.