Paulician

Paulician
Paulician Pau"li*cian, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New. [1913 Webster]

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