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Pet•ro•bru•sian
(pe′trō bro̅o̅′zhən, -shən),USA pronunciation n.
- Religiona member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- Medieval Latin petrobrusiānus, named after Petrus Brusius Pierre de Bruys, 12th-century Frenchman who founded the sect; see -an
- 1550–60