Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hicksite \Hicks"ite\, n.
   A member or follower of the ``liberal'' party, headed by
   Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting
   the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the
   conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United
   States, in 1827.