Zwinglian

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

  Zwinglian \Zwing"li*an\, prop. a. (Theol.)
     Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer
     of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's
     Supper the true body of Christ is present by the
     contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and
     that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements.


     -- n. A follower of Zwingli.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]