- BUCHANITES
- a fanatical sect who appeared in the W. of Scotland in 1783, named after a Mrs. Buchan, who claimed to be the woman mentioned in Rev. xii.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BUCHANITES
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