Don·a·tist (d n  -t st, d n-)n. A member of a rigoristic, schismatic Christian sect, strongly opposed by Saint Augustine, that arose in North Africa in the fourth century a.d. and believed in sanctity as requisite for church membership and administration of all sacraments. [Medieval Latin Donatista, after Donatus, fourth-century a.d. ecclesiastic and rival claimant of the bishopric of Carthage.] Don a·tism n. |
Donatist [ˈdəʊnətɪst]
n
(Christian Churches, other) a member of a schismatic heretical Christian sect originating in N Africa in 311 ad, that maintained that it alone constituted the true church
[from Late Latin Dōnātista a follower of Dōnātus, bishop of Carthage]
Donatism n
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