Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MON'TAN-IST
MON'TAN-IST, n.
A follower of the heresiarch Montanus, a Phrygian by birth, who pretended he was inspired by the Holy Spirit and instructed in several points not revealed to the Apostles. His sect sprung up in the second century. Encyc.
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