Definition of "Eusebius"

Ye little Eusebiuses hide your diminished heads!

1829, Robert Taylor, The Diegesis; Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity, page 360

In provincial synods across France, local Eusebiuses were put to the task; by May 1565 the results were piling up in Geneva, ‘tantae molis’ lamented Beza ‘ut camelum, nedum asinum possint obruere’.

1994, Mark Greengrass, “Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars” in Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson, eds. Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts, Cambridge University Press (digitally printed first paperback version, 2006), chapter 1, pages 1–2

The extreme Puritans had an impact of no less import on the publishing activities of their enemies. In their attempt to halt the progress of forms of religion and religious opinion that had gone far beyond their own goals, several Presbyterian divines produced carefully assembled accounts of the heresies of their own times – they were the Eusebiuses of their day, and their works are now major sources for the history of the period.

2002, Nigel Smith, “Non-conformist voices and books” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Cambridge University Press, volume IV: 1557–1695, eds. John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie, chapter 19, page 416