Ch. Hist. Also 7 Thraskite, Threskite. [f. Trask, a surname + -ITE1.] A follower of John Trask, who c. 1617 began to advocate certain Jewish ceremonies, including the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath; now represented by the Seventh-day Baptists. Also † Traskist Obs.
1618. T. Adams, Bad Leaven, Wks. 1861, II. 343. There is a fourth leaven,… the mixing of law with gospel…. This leaven might well … have moulded away, if there had not been a late generation of Thraskites to devour it as bread.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 54. Precisians, Disciplinarians, Iudaicall Thraskists.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, x. § 1. 78. Our Iudaizing Threskites.
1634. (Apr. 1) Order Commiss. Eccles. Courts. [To take measures for the suppression of] Brownists, Anabaptists, Arians, Traskists, Familists [etc.].
1661. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 2), Thraskites, are the followers of John Thraske.
1694. E. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Eng., III. (ed. 18), 377. Traskists, now called Seventh-day-men, who keep the Jewish Sabboth.
1874. Blunt, Dict. Sects, Traskites.
