DAVIDISTS, a fancy name rather than a recognized designa tion for three religious sects. It has been applied (I) to the fol lowers (if he had any) of David of Dinant, in Belgium, the teacher or pupil of Amalric (Amaury) of Bena, both of whom taught apparently a species of pantheism. David's Quaterni, or Quaternuli, condemned and burnt at Paris (1209), is a lost book, known only by references in Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aqui nas; its author would have been burnt had he not fled. (2) To the followers of David George or Joris (q.v.). (3) To the followers of Francis David (I 510-79), the apostle of Transylvanian unitari anism (see SoelNVS; UNITARIANISM).