The Collaborative International Dictionary
Docetae
Docetae \Do*ce"t[ae]\, n. pl. [NL., fr. ? to appear.] (Eccl. Hist.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.
Usage examples of "docetae".
This text, too, as Irenaeus has remarked, (2) entirely opposes the false teaching of the Docetae, who, as their name imports, believed, with the Manichaeans, that Christ only appeared to have a body.