var. SABIAN, SABIANISM.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. xii. (ed. 2), 63. These Zabians thought whatsoeuer went from their bodies was vncleane.
1748. T. Blackwell, Lett. conc. Mythol., 369. That this Zabian Principle of the Worship of one God by Prayer and Incense, was not confined to any one Tribe or Nation, appears evident from the Authority of our holy Scriptures.
1845. Vulgar & Common Err., 74. A belief which, like the Zabianism, or star worship, whereof it was part and parcel, did spread nearly over the world in former times.
