therapeutæ

from The Century Dictionary.

• According to ancient tradition, a mystic and ascetic Jewish sect in Egypt, of the first century.

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

• noun plural (Eccl. Hist.) A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.