Don|a|tist

Don|a|tist
Don|a|tist «DON uh tihst», noun.
a member of a schismatic and heretical sect of Christians that arose in North Africa in the year 311, out of a dispute about the election of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage.
[< Medieval Latin Donatista < Bishop Donatus of Casae Nigrae, who led the opposition to Caecilian]

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