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Monothelite, n. and a.|məˈnɒθɪlaɪt|
Also 6, 8 -it; in blundered forms 5 Monacholite, Monalechite, 7 Monotholite; cf. Monothelete.
[ad. med.L. monothelīta, ad. (with assimilation to -īta -ite1) late Gr. µονοθελήτης (7th c.), f. Gr. µόνο-ς single + θελητής, agent-n. from θέλ-ειν to will. Cf. F. monothélite.]
A. n. An adherent of the heretical sect (founded in the 7th c.) which maintained that Christ has only one will.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas ix. iv. (1558) 23 Of a secte called Monacholites. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 96 His [sc. Eraclius] heresie, whech thei clepid Monalechites. c1559R. Hall Life Fisher in F.'s Wks. (E.E.T.S.) ii. 135 Agatho against the monothelits. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlviii. §9 The Church hath of old condemned Monothelites as Heretiques, for holding that Christ had but one will. 1615E. Hoby Curry-combe iv. 174 You haue heard that Honorius the first was a Monotholite. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 161 They professe Christianity taught them erroniously by Jacobus the Syrian Monothelite. 1716Monothelit [see Monothelitic a.]. 1856J. C. Robertson Hist. Chr. Ch., 2nd Period 67 Wilfrid.. was invited to take a place in the council against the Monothelites.
allusively.1652Observ. Forms Govt. 16 It is nothing else but a Monarchy of Monothelites, or of many men of one will most commonly in one point onely.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Monothelites or their doctrine.
1619Purchas Microcosmus lxix. 695 The Maronites..maintaine the Monothelite Heresie. 1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. xxxviii. 64 So were the Orthodox under the Nestorian, Eutychian, Monothelite,..Princes. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. IV. 589 note, The Monothelite monk. 1840W. Palmer Eccl. Hist. vii. 73 Honorius [bishop] of Rome sanctioned the Monothelite heresy. 1856J. C. Robertson Hist. Chr. Ch., 2nd Period 55 The Monothelite controversy for a time weakened the influence of Rome. |