Săn'de-mā'ni-an, n.

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotchman, who taught his views first in Scotland, and afterward in Great Britain.

☞ He held that faith is only a simple assent to the divine testimony concerning Jesus Christ as set forth in the Scriptures. His followers hold to a weekly administration of the Lord's Supper; to love-feasts, which consist in dining at each other's houses in the intermission of public worship; to the kiss of charity on the admission of new members; to mutual exhortation; to abstinence from things strangled, and from blood; to the washing of each other's feet; to a modified community of goods; to a plurality of elders, pastors, or bishops in each church. The sect is nearly extinct in England, in Scotland its adherents are called Glassites.