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 Darby and Joan.Darics (or) State’res Dari’ci. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dar’byites (3 syl.).
 
The Plymouth Brethren are so called on the Continent from Mr. Darby, a barrister, who abandoned himself to the work, and was for years the “organ” of the sect.   1
 


 Darby and Joan.Darics (or) State’res Dari’ci. 

 
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