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Monophysite

Monophysite \Mo*noph"y*site\, n. [Gr. ?; mo`nos single + ? nature: cf. F. monophysite.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Monophysite

1690s, from Church Latin Monophysita, from Greek monophysites, from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + physis "nature" (see physics). Christian (regarded in the West as a heretic) who believes there is only one nature in the person of Jesus Christ. Now comprising Coptic, Armenian, Abyssinian and Jacobite churches.

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monophysite

a. (alternative case form of Monophysite English) n. (alternative case form of Monophysite English)

Usage examples of "monophysite".

It arose in the first instance from the Monophysite and Donatist controversies, the former of which I was engaged with in the course of theological study to which I had given myself.

The Chalcedonians versus the Monophysites versus the Dyophysites versus the Nestorians, to mention only four.

Our own creed is very similar, and many of the Egyptian Monophysites look upon us as their religious brethren.

That news had been greeted by the Egyptian Monophysites with wild acclaim.

The Monophysites held that the earth was made like a sphere, the Nestorians like a tabernacle.

And the rigid unity of the Monophysites, who, under the reigns of Zeno and Anastasius, had invaded the thrones of the East, provoked their antagonists, in a land of freedom, to avow a moral, rather than a physical, union of the two persons of Christ.

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