Martin ist (martin ist)

[Also Marten ist; Biting petitions and Satyrick Pasquils (worthy of such Martenists). Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 61. (Davies.) This pure Martin ist , if he were not worse. Greene. Pap Hutchet talketh of publishing a hundred mery tales of certaine poore Martinists . G. Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation. 2. A member of a school of religionists formed originally by the Chevalier St. Martin (17431803), a few years before the French Revolution broke out: a kind of pietistic imitation of freemasonry. The Martinists were transplanted to Ru ia during the reign of Catherine II. Blunt , Dict. of Sects.