释义 |
glass·ite noun or glas·ite \-ˌsīt\ (-s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: John Glass (or Glas) died 1773 Scottish clergyman who founded the sect + English -ite : a member of a Christian sect founded about 1730 and holding that there is no authority in the New Testament for giving the civil magistrate as such any function in the church — called also Sandemanian |