(n.) One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; especially, in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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