Brewer's: Thomists

Followers of Thomas Aquinas, who denied the doctrine of the immaculate conception maintained by Duns Scotus.

“Scotists and Thomists now in peace remain.” Pope: Essay on Criticism, 444.

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