Category: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.