Brewer's: Luciferians

A sect of the fourth century, who refused to hold any communion with the Arians, who had renounced their “errors” and been re-admitted into the Church. So called from Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari, in Sardinia, their leader.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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