Brewer's: Sabeism

means baptism- that is, the “religion of many baptisms;” founded by Boudasp or Bodhisattva, a wise Chaldean. This sect was the root of the party called “Christians of St. John,” and by the Arabs El Mogtasila.

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