Novatian

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

  Novatian \No*va"tian\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the
     lapsed might not be received again into communion with the
     church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
     [1913 Webster]