Brewer's: Macmillanites

(4 syl.). A religious sect of Scotland, who succeeded the Covenanters; so named from John Macmillan, their leader. They called themselves the “Reformed Presbytery.”

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