[f. BIBLE + -IST.]

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  a.  One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith. b. A biblical student.

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1562.  A. Scott, New Y. Gift Quene. And ar bot biblistis fairsing full their bellie.

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1653.  in Phenix (1708), II. 320. The Biblists … confess that a Man may not pray for the Holy Spirit as he ought.

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1836.  Cdl. Wiseman, Sc. & Relig., II. x. 207. All the pretended improvements of modern biblists.

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