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‖ Docetæ, n. pl. Eccl. Hist.|dəʊˈsiːtiː|
[med.L. a. Gr. Δοκηταί, f. δοκέ-ειν to seem, appear.]
An early sect of heretics, who held that Christ's body was not human, but either a phantom, or of real but celestial substance.
1818–21J. Pye Smith Script. Test. Messiah (1829) III. iv. 134 The doctrines of the Docetæ. 1831–3E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. xii, The earliest Gnostics..called Docetæ, believed the body of Jesus to have been..either a mere optical illusion, or..something ethereal and impalpable. |