Monophysite noun & adjective. [mǝ'nɒfɪsʌɪt] L17.
[ecclesiastical Latin Monophysita from ecclesiastical Greek monophusitēs, formed as MONO- + phusis nature: see -ITE¹.]
Christian Theology.
A. noun. A person who holds that there is only one inseparable nature in the person of Jesus, contrary to a declaration of the council of Chalcedon (AD 451). L17.
B. adjective. Of or pertaining to the doctrine of the Monophysites or a Church professing this doctrine. L18.

► The term has long been used loosely of those Eastern Churches which did not accept the Chalcedonian canons, i.e. chiefly the Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, and Jacobite Churches.

■ monophysitic [,mɒnǝ(ʊ)fɪ'sɪtɪk] adjective (rare) = MONOPHYSITE adjective E19.

■ monophysitism noun the doctrine of the Monophysites M19.

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