a. and sb. Obs. Also 6 lutheryan, (lauterian). [f. Luther + -IAN. Cf. F. luthérien.] = LUTHERAN a. and sb.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 224 b. Agaynst the first parte of this artycle these lutheryans … hath maligned and erred.
1581. Nicol Burne, Disput., in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.), 147. The Lauterianis, Zuinglianis, Calvinistis, and Anabaptistis.
1589. L. Wright, Hunting Antichrist, 10. They were all called Waldenses till the time of Luther, when they began to be called Lutherians and Protestants.
Hence † Lutherianism = LUTHERANISM.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 54. Lutherianism was … finally established in 1593, by the synod of Upsal.
