Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DA'VID-IST, or DA'VID-GEOR'GI-ANS
DA'VID-IST, or DA'VID-GEOR'GI-ANS, n.
A sect, so called from David George, who, in the sixteenth century, gave out that he was the Messiah, rejected marriage, and denied the resurrection.
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