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From Grindleton + -ian, after Grindleton, Lancashire, where the sect first emerged.
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Grindletonian
Today it means: A member of an antinomian religious group in seventeenth-century England, which believed in the primacy of God's spirit over the word of the Bible and questioned the authority of ordination. Full definition →