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Petrobrusian

[ pe-troh-broo-zhuhn, -shuhn ]

noun

  1. a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Petrobrusian1

1550–60; < Medieval Latin petrobrusiānus, named after Petrus Brusius Pierre de Bruys, 12th-century Frenchman who founded the sect; -an

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