† ˈseparist Obs. rare.
[f. separe v. + -ist.]
= separatist.
| 1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 15 Iove separat me from these Separists. 1641 F. Greville Eng. Episc. ii. vi. 90 The Separist is subdivided too, as they say, into Separatist and Semi-separatist. 1700 Labour in Vain in Harl. Misc. (1745) VI. 353 In contradiction to the present thought, My sole Opinion signifieth Nought; 'Tis over-rul'd, and I am surely cast, Which proves the Fate of Separists at last. |
Hence † sepaˈristic, † sepaˈristical adjs. = separatistic, -al adjs.
| 1633 Heywood Eng. Trav. Ep. Ded., If they haue beene vilefied of late by any Separisticall humorist. 1653 R. Baillie Dissuas. Vind. (1655) 15 A part of Mr. Robinson's Separistick congregation. |