Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pre-Raphaelite \Pre-Raph"a*el*ite\, n.
   Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be
   restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German
   painters often called {Nazarenes}, or one who paints and
   draws with extreme minuteness of detail.