Hist. One who followed, or held the tenets of, Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism, executed along with John Greenwood, in 1593, for nonconformity to the Church of England. (Barrowe has been by some identified with Martin Marprelate.)
1589. Pasquil’s Ret., 20. There neuer yet wanted … Brownist, Barowist, Martinist, Anabaptist.
1645. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1661), 87. The second sort of separatists may be called Barrowists … who say that the Church of England is Sodom, Babylon, and Ægypt.
1884. G. Huntington, in Chicago Advance, 11 Dec. The Barrowist party in New England.
