Ranter1. (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
2. (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
3. (n.) 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.
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