Obs. [ad. 16th c. L. trīnitāri-us: see TRINITARIAN, Cf. F. trinitaire (Calvin, 1560).] = TRINITARIAN B. 1, 2, 2 b.
1561. Norton, trans. Calvin’s Inst., I. xiii. 39. The name of the Trinitie was so hatefull, yea so detestable to Seruetto, that he sayde, that all the Trinitaries, as he called them, were vtterly godlesse.
1581. Allen, Apol., 20. These present Protestants, Anabaptists, Puritans, Trinitaries, and other wolues of what heare so euer,… daily decay and discouer their owne malice and folly.
1693. trans. Emilianne’s Hist. Monast. Ord., 135. Of the Order of the Mathurines, or Trinitaries.
