[f. as prec. + -IST.]
† 1. = CONGREGATIONALIST. Obs.
1659. Gauden, Slight Healers (1660), 105. Independents, or Congregationists, which seemed to stickle for the interests of people in religious transactions.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Congregationists, Dissenters from the Church of England.
2. A member of a Roman Catholic congregation or lay brotherhood under ecclesiastical direction; also attrib. = CONGREGANIST.
1848. W. H. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., I. 435. Imbued with that jesuitism which had crept into all the courts of Europe … Skrzynecki was a constant frequenter of the churches … a congregationist in epaulettes.
1882. Contemp. Rev., Jan., 93. He … introduced various religious orders and Congregationist Schools.
