acephalite
/ɐsˈɛfəlˌa͡ɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).
Example Sentences
- "[…] nor does he charge Beatus or Heterius (that wild ass) with being a Eutychian, or a follower of Eutyches, or acephalite, or any other term recalling the monophysitism of the fifth century or its descendants."
- "The Greater Chronicle […] makes it clear that the roots of the Acefali lay in their failure to accept the Three Chapters of Chalcedon […] the Lesser Chronicle, 39, states simply that ‘The heresy of the Acephalites arose’ (my translation)."
- "Eutyches, who taught the opposite: that just there is one person so the natures are one in Christ, by confusing and intermingling the two natures. So too for that whole breed of Eutyches, the Monophysites, Monothelites, and 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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Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɐsˈɛfəlˌa͡ɪt/