ERAS'TIAN, noun A follower of one Erastus, the leader of a religious sect, who denied the power of the church to discipline its members.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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