Erasmian

Full definition of Erasmian

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Erasmus (Catholic priest and theologian).
• 1985, Lucien Febvre, The problem of unbelief in the sixteenth century: the religion of Rabelais, It was not, as Juan de Valdes very clearly attests, repugnant to an Erasmian Evangelical, even if he otherwise admired Luther.

Noun

1. A follower of Erasmus.
• 1992, Leopoldo Zea, Amy Oliver, The role of the Americas in history, The spirit of the Spanish Erasmians was in fact different from the spirit that inspired Erasmus and his followers in the rest of Western Europe.