sb. and a. Also -cotian. [See def.]
A. sb. A believer in the claims or teaching of Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), who announced herself as the woman spoken of in Revelation xii.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., etc. 1136/1. Southcottians.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvii. IV. 28. It would be most unjust to rank the sect which regards him as its founder with the Muggletonians or the Southcotians.
1899. Dict. Nat. Biogr., LIX. 322. The Southcottians would not receive him [John Ward].
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Joanna Southcott or her followers.
1843. W. B. Harrison (title), Correspondence of the Southcottian Church.
1850. P. Crook, War of Hats, 36. Southcottian dupes—the crazed of unknown tongues.
