Eccl. Hist. Also incorrectly stercorianism. [Formed as next + -ISM.] The beliefs of the Stercoranists.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Stercorarians, Which Opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoranism.
1758. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., II. 156. That imaginary heresy, that … was branded with the title of Stercoranism.
1798. Hey, Lect. Divinity, IV. IV. xxviii. 340, note. This might be held, in order to obviate the charge of Stercorianism.
1847–54. Webster, Stercorianism.
1882. Ogilvie, Stercoranism, Stercorianism.
