Brown'ist, n.

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Robert Brown, a Puritan, or dissenter from the church of England, in the 16th century. He was the head of a party of Independents in church government.

“The Brownists did not differ from the church of England in any article of faith, but were very rigid and narrow in points of discipline. . . . They apprehended, according to Scripture, that every church ought to be confined within the limits of a single congregation, and that the government should be democratical.” Neal.