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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A sect of heretics of the first and second centuries who denied the human origin of Christ's body, some holding that it was a mere phantom, and others that it was real but of celestial substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Eccl. Hist.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

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