Zwing"li*an (?), 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.
Also, a follower of Zwingli.
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