Brownismn.
1. The system of church-government advocated c1581 by Robert Brown, an English Puritan and Nonconformist. His principles, somewhat modified, became those of the Independents.
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a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 497 Some fall to Brownisme, some to Popery.
1642 Compl. to Ho. Commons 15 Schismatical men addicted to Anabaptisme and Brownisme.
1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 595 The violence of persecution drove some of them into the extremes of Brownism.
2. The style of Sir Thomas Browne.Apparently an isolated use.
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1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1756 I. 169 Those words which he sometimes took pleasure in adopting, in imitation of Sir Thomas Browne.. In one instance only in these essays has he indulged his Brownism.
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3. Medicine. The Brunonian system. See Brunonian adj. and n.
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