Brewer's: Ethnophrones

(4 syl.). A sect of heretics of the seventeenth century, who practised the observances of the ancient Pagans. (Greek, ethnos-phren, heathen-minded.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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