Năz'a-rē'an or Năz'a-rēne', n.

n. [Lat. Nazareus, Nazarenus, Gr. Ναζαρηνός, from Lat. Nazaræ, Gr. Ναζαρέθ; Fr. Nazaréen.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the second century, who observed the laws of Moses, and rejected the commonly received Gospels, holding a peculiar one of their own.