Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seekers"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ranter \Rant"er\, n.
1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
(a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --
called also {Seekers}. See {Seeker}.
(b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
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