Petrobrusian

[ pe-troh-broo-zhuhn, -shuhn ]

noun

1. a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Petrobrusian¹

1550–60; < Medieval Latin petrobrusiānus, named after Petrus Brusius Pierre de Bruys, 12th-century Frenchman who founded the sect; -an

Example Sentences

What led to his resuming his heretical mission we do not know, but we meet him again, bolder than before, adopting substantially the Petrobrusian tenets, rejecting the Eucharist, refusing all reverence for the priesthood, all tithes, oblations, and other sources of ecclesiastical revenue, and all attendance at church.

From Project Gutenberg

But the time came when Bernard, noting the spread of the Petrobrusian heresy, determined to strike at the source of these errors.

From Project Gutenberg