Brewer's: Irvingites

(3 syl.). The self-styled Catholic Apostolic Church, founded by the Rev. Edward Irving in 1829; they believed in the gift of tongues.

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