From the Renaissance Latin Erasmiānus.
Erasmian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Erasmus (Catholic priest and theologian).
1985, Lucien Febvre, The problem of unbelief in the sixteenth century: the religion of Rabelais[1], →ISBN, page 286:It was not, as Juan de Valdes very clearly attests, repugnant to an Erasmian Evangelical, even if he otherwise admired Luther.
of or pertaining to Erasmus
Erasmian (plural Erasmians)
- A follower of Erasmus.
1992, Leopoldo Zea, Amy Oliver, The role of the Americas in history[2], →ISBN, page 220: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.