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Glassite
noun
Glass·ite
\-ˌsīt\
variants: or
Glasite
\-ˌsīt\Definition of Glassite
-s
: 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
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Origin and Etymology of glassite
John Glass (or Glas) †1773 Scottish clergyman who founded the sect + English -ite
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