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Webster 1828 Edition


Batenites

BAT'ENITES

, BAT'ENISTS, or BATE'NIANS,
Noun.
A sect of apostates from Mohammedism, who professed the abominable practices of the Ismaelians and Kirmatians. The word signified esoteric,or persons of inward light. [See Assassins.]
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