A person of no religion; also an idler.
1789. There is a considerable number of the people who … are, as to religion, Nothingarians.—Morse, ‘American Geography,’ p. 206 (N.E.D.)
1815. This comprises all the professed friends of liberal religion, most of the Baptists and Methodists, and all the nothingarians.—J. M. Shirley, ‘Dartmouth College Causes’ (1879), 96. (N.E.D.)
1817. Office-hunters, brokers, clerks, stay-tape and buckram gentry, speculators, and nothingarians, crowd to the President’s every Wednesday evening.—Mass. Spy, April 2.
*** Compare with this “Free-thinkers, Atheists, Anythingarians”: The Entertainer, Nov. 6, 1717; Notes and Queries, 7 S. vi. 66. See also id., p. 195.
