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(1) The Rosicrucians were so called, because they never dared to appear in public.
(2) The disciples of Osiander, Flaccius, Illirĭcus, etc., who denied the perpetual visibility of the Church. (Sixteenth century.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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