Brewer's: Darbyites

(3 syl.). The Plymouth Brethren are so called on the Continent from Mr. Darby, a barrister, who abandoned himself to the work, and was for years the “organ” of the sect.

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