Brewer's: Invisibles

(1) The Rosicrucians were so called, because they never dared to appear in public. (2) The disciples of Osiander, Flaccius, Illiricus, etc., who denied the perpetual visibility of the Church. (Sixteenth century.)

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