Definition for A-BE'LIANS

A-BE'LIANS, n. [or A-BE-LO'NI-ANS, or A'BEL-ITES.]

In Church history, a sect in Africa which arose in the reign of Arcadians; they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel, and attempted to maintain the sect by adopting the children of others. – Encyc.

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