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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of an Encratite sect of the second century.
  • noun A member of a Gnostic sect of the second century: often identified with .
  • noun A follower of Severus, Monophysite patriarch of Antioch a. d. 512–519, still honored by the Jacobites next after Dioscorus. See Monophysite.

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