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  1. Movement within the early Christian church
  2. that strove to return to the purity of
  3. primitive Christianity. It originated in
  4. Phrygia in about 156 with the teaching of a
  5. prophet named Montanus, and spread to
  6. Anatolia, Rome, Carthage, and Gaul. The
  7. theologian Tertullian was a Montanist.
  8.