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Collyridian, n. and a.|kɒlɪˈrɪdɪən| [ad. med.L. collȳridiān-us, f. collȳrida = collȳris = Gr. κολλῡ-ρίς, -ίδα (Vulgate and LXX) cake, dim. of κολλύρα roll of coarse bread.] A. n. A member of a sect of heretics in the 4th and 5th c. who worshipped the Virgin Mary, to whom their women are said to have offered cakes as ‘Queen of Heaven’ (cf. Jer. vii. 18).
1565J. Calfhill Answ. Martiall (1846) 377 A sect of heretics called Collyridians, which did offer to the Virgin Mary. 1667Poole Dial. Prot. & Papist (1735) 146 The Fathers charged the Collyridians with Idolatry, for worshipping of the Virgin Mary. 1880Littledale Plain Reas. xxiv. 69. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1423. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this sect.
1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Cal. Proph. (1844) I. 101 Collyridian Heretics, who..had begun to worship the dead in the person of the Virgin Mary. 1833― Recapit. Apostasy 15 The idolatrously blasphemous Collyridian Heresy. |