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Dyophysite

[ dahy-of-uh-sahyt ]

noun

Theology.
  1. a person who maintains that Christ has two distinct natures, one divine and the other human; an adherent of Dyophysitism.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٲ·DZ··· [dahy-of-, uh, -, sit, -ik], ٲ·DZ···· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Dyophysite1

First recorded in 1855–60; from Late Greek DZī́ŧ, equivalent to ý two + ý() “nature” + -īŧ -ite 1
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Dyophysite, dī-of′i-zīt, n. a holder of the doctrine of the coexistence of two natures, the divine and the human, in Christ—also Diph′ysite.—adjs.

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Zeno was restored by a Dyophysite faction under the lead of Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople.

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Accordingly the distinction of a symbolic and realistic conception of the Supper is altogether to be rejected; we could more rightly distinguish between materialistic, dyophysite, and docetic conceptions which, however, are not to be regarded as severally exclusive in the strict sense.

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