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Dyophysite Theol.|daɪˈɒfɪzaɪt| [ad. late Gr. δυοϕυσῖται (found in 5th c. beside διϕυσῖται diphysite, which was a more etymological form), f. δύο two + ϕύσις nature.] A holder of the doctrine of the co-existence of two natures, the divine and the human, in Christ: opposed to the Monophysites. Hence Dyophyˈsitic, Dyophyˈsitical a., of or pertaining to Dyophysites; Dyˈophysitism, the doctrine of the Dyophysites.
1860A. Edersheim tr. Kurtz's Ch. Hist. I. §82. 5 Felix II of Rome..leader of the Dyophysites. 1882Cave & Banks tr. Dorner's Chr. Doctrine 216 This monothelistic formula of union maintained by Heraclius and Zenon, retained no place between Dyophysites and Monophysites. Ibid. 219 In opposition to all theories of confusion the Church held to Dyophysitism and Dyotheletism. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 461 An attempt to reconstruct the Lutheran theory [of Christology] on a modern critical and ethical instead of a dyophysitic basis. |