Donatists

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 32

don′a-tists, n.pl. the members of an African sect in the Christian Church of the 4th and 5th centuries, who protested against any diminution of the extreme reverence paid to martyrs, who treated the lapsed severely, and rebaptised converts from the Catholic Church.— n. Don′atism .— adjs. Donatis′tic , -al . [From Donatus , one of their leaders.]