Therapeutaen.
/θɛrəˈpjuːtiː/ With plural agreement. A sect of Jewish mystics residing in Egypt in the first century a.d., described in a book attributed to Philo.
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1681 Bp. S. Parker Demonstr. Divine Authority ii. xviii. 247 These Therapeutæ read the ancient Writings of the Authours of their Sect.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 53 The Therapeutæ, a sect similar to the Essenes, number many among them whose lives are truly exemplary.
1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus I. i. xxix. 235 He took the Egyptian branch of the Essenes, the so-called Therapeuts, for regular Christians.
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