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Brahmin(ical) Hist. 
n. in Upper Canada, one of a class of evangelists from the United States, usually Methodists, who publicly expressed their republican sympathies.
- 1832 There are not on the face of the earth, a set of more ignorant pretenders than those Brahminicals, who are pouring in upon us from all quarters, and who very obligingly offer to take charge of our temporal, as well as spiritual concerns.
- 1832 The Brahmins have found their Camp Meeting system so fully exposed, as to be no longer tenable, and are obliged, though most reluctantly, to abandon it.
- 1832 There are not on the face of the earth, a set of more ignorant pretenders than those Brahminicals, who are pouring in upon us from all quarters, and who very obligingly offer to take charge of our temporal, as well as spiritual concerns.