Meanings of montanists in English

Even Justinian, about A.D. 530, enacts laws against the Montanists or Tertullianists.

The martyrs appear to have been Montanists.

The Montanists, towards the termination of the second century, created much confusion by their extravagant doctrines and their claims to inspiration.

These orthodox theologians had outlawed the pessimistic visions of the Gnostics, Marcionites and Montanists and had settled for the middle road.

The last of these works was against the Montanists and their pretended prophets, who began to appear in Phrygia about the year 171.

The Montanists launched in the second century a movement, borne along on a mountain-wave of enthusiasm, for a "spiritual" Church composed only of "spiritual" persons.