English Explanatory Dictionary

Acephalite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).

Word forms

Acephalite Acephalites

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin acephalus + -ite, from Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”), apparently referring to the movement’s refusal to accept the decisions of church councils.

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