miaphysite
nounEtymology A modern coinage from Byzantine Greek μία (mía, “one”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature, substance”) + -ite; see Miaphysitism for more.
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A believer in Miaphysitism, (specifically) a member of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
miaphysite
adjEtymology A modern coinage from Byzantine Greek μία (mía, “one”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature, substance”) + -ite; see Miaphysitism for more.
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Lifestyle, Religion, Theology Of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ has a single, though composite, nature.
- The leaders of the Miaphysite cause across the empire still loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the imperial throne, and there is no reason to doubt that most were sincere.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 233: