ZUINGLIANS, a branch of the ancient Christian reformers, or protestants; so called from their author Huldric Zuinglius, a divine of Switzerland; who soon after Luther had declared against the church of Rome; and being then minister of the church at Zurich, fell in with him, and preached openly against indulgences, the mass, the celibacy of the clergy, &c. What he differed from Luther in, concerned the eucharist: for interpreting hoc est corpus meum, by hoc significat corpus meum, he maintained that the bread and wine were only significations of the body and blood of Jesus Christ; whereas Luther held a consubstantiation.