[f. BIBLE + -IST.]
a. One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith. b. A biblical student.
1562. A. Scott, New Y. Gift Quene. And ar bot biblistis fairsing full their bellie.
1653. in Phenix (1708), II. 320. The Biblists confess that a Man may not pray for the Holy Spirit as he ought.
1836. Cdl. Wiseman, Sc. & Relig., II. x. 207. All the pretended improvements of modern biblists.