Brewer's: Nazaræans

or Nazarenes (3 syl.). A sect of Jewish Christians, who believed Christ to be the Messiah, that He was born of the Holy Ghost, and that He possessed a Divine nature; but they nevertheless conformed to the Mosaic rites and ceremonies. (See below.)

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