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Monophysite, n. (a.) Eccl. Hist.|məˈnɒfɪsaɪt|
[ad. eccl.L. Monophysīta, a. eccl.Gr. Μονοϕυσίτης, f. µόνο-ς mono- + ϕύσ-ις nature: see -ite1 1 a.]
A heretic who believes that there is only one nature in the person of Jesus Christ.
The bodies of Christians now professing this belief are the Coptic, Armenian, Abyssinian, and Jacobite churches.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 272 The Acephali and Monosyphites [sic]. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Monophysites, a general name given to all those sectaries in the Levant, who only own one nature in Jesus Christ. The Monophysites, however, properly so called, are the followers of Severus, and Petrus Fullensis. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. IV. 591 Under the rod of persecution, the Nestorians and Monophysites degenerated into rebels and fugitives. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome xi. 587 Pernicious heresies, like that of the Monophysites in Egypt. 1875Boultbee Theol. Ch. Eng. 20 Nor can the human nature be converted into the divine, as the Eutychians and other monophysites taught.
b. attrib. or adj. = next.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. IV. 563 The monophysite doctrine (one incarnate nature) was rigorously preached in the churches of Egypt and the monasteries of the East. Ibid. 608 Severus, the Monophysite patriarch of Antioch. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome xi. 608 The Monophysite heretics..were cruelly persecuted by the orthodox Greeks. 1882Century Mag. XXIII. 851 Those old fears about lapsing into the Monophysite heresy. 1905Expositor Apr. 261 Christianity in its Nestorian or Monophysite form. |