A follower of Alexander Campbell, a religious teacher of Virginia.
1881. Nation (N. Y.), XXXII. 401/1. We are quite sure these are the doctrines of the Campbellites.
1881. W. M. Thayer, Log-Cabin to White Ho., ii. Abram Garfield united with a comparatively new sect, called Disciples, though Campbellites was a name by which they were sometimes known, in honor of the founder of the sect, Alexander Campbell.