1894 Brewer’s / A / Adiaphorists
Followers of Melanchthon; moderate Lutherans, who hold that some of the dogmas of Luther are matters of indifference. (Greek, adiaphʹoros, indifferent.)
Macaulay: Essay, Burleigh.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.