belshamites

Updated: May 24, 2025

The argument of the philosophic Unitarians, as Wissowatius, who, mistaken as they were, are not to be confounded with their degenerate successors, the Priestleyans and Belshamites, may be thus expressed. By the term, God, we can only conceive you to suppose one or other of three meanings. Either you understand by it a person, in the common sense of an intelligent or self-conscious being; or,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.