noun
or glas·ite -ˌsīt
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: John Glass (or Glas ) died 1773 Scottish clergyman who founded the sect + English -ite
: a member of a Christian sect founded about 1730 and holding that there is no authority in the New Testament for giving the civil magistrate as such any function in the church — called also Sandemanian