The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monothelite \Mo*noth"e*lite\, n. [Gr. ?; mo`nos alone, only + ?,
?, to will, be willing: cf. F. monoth['e]lite.] (Eccl. Hist.)
One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will
as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite.
--Gibbon.
Usage examples of "monothelite".
In the twelfth century, the Maronites, abjuring the Monothelite error, were reconciled to the Latin churches of Antioch and Rome, and the same alliance has been frequently renewed by the ambition of the popes and the distress of the Syrians.
They condemned the execrable and abominable heresy of the Monothelites, who revived the errors of Manes, Apollinaris, Eutyches, &c.
They declared themselves Monothelites, (asserters of the unity of will,) but they treated the words as new, the questions as superfluous.
They declared themselves Monothelites, (asserters of the unity of will,) but they treated the words as new, the questions as superfluous.
In the twelfth century, the Maronites, abjuring the Monothelite error were reconciled to the Latin churches of Antioch and Rome, ^137 and the same alliance has been frequently renewed by the ambition of the popes and the distress of the Syrians.
The epistle of Pope Martin to Amandus, Gallican bishop, stigmatizes the Monothelites and their heresy with equal virulence, (p.