or LUCANISTS, a religious sect (or sects) who derived their name from either of the Lucians just alluded to; or, what is most probable, from both. It is not unlikely that the first who bore the name were the disciples of Lucian the Elder, the Marcionite; and that afterwards it was applied to those who adhered to the tenets of the presbyter of Antioch, which were in all probability slightly tinctured with Arianism.