Glassite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glassite \Glass"ite\, n.
     A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by
     John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland,
     who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple
     assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the
     understanding." The English and American adherents of this


     faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the
     son-in-law and disciple of Glass. Glass maker