- Petrobrusian
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/pe'troh brooh"zheuhn, -sheuhn/, n.a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.[1550-60; < ML petrobrusianus, named after Petrus Brusius Pierre de Bruys, 12th-century Frenchman who founded the sect; see -AN]
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Universalium. 2010.