adiaphorist

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adiaphorist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adiaphorist \Ad`i*aph"o*rist\ ([a^]d`[i^]*[a^]f"[-o]*r[i^]st),
     n. [See Adiaphorous.] (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held
     some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or
     nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.
     --Murdock.
     [1913 Webster]