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- n. historical One of an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat.
Etymologies
- Latin Encratitae (plural) from Ancient Greek self-disciplined; in + strength. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Later (c. 172) he apostatized, became a Gnostic of the Encratite sect, and returned to the Orient.”
“It is not certain, however, whether Origen did not confound Dositheus the Pseudo-Messias with an Encratite sectary who lived somewhat later.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“Encratite circles must be mentioned: The Gospel according to the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“Encratite condemnation of marriage, and a pantheistic Gnosticism.”
“The relief into which abstention from the marriage-bed is brought in these Acts makes it difficult to escape from the conclusion that they have been coloured by Encratite ideas.”
“I am aware that I have received into episcopal rank Izois and Saturninus from the Encratite following.”
“The Encratite controversy was, on the one hand, swallowed up by the Gnostic, and on the other hand, replaced by the Montanistic.”
“Encratite mode of life and the common church practice, and had no longer the courage and the candour to proclaim the "e sæculo excedere.”
“Similarly, his only reason for not being an Encratite is that this mode of life had already been adopted by heretics, and become associated with dualism.”
“Church is now completely legitimised, but the higher form no longer appears as Encratite and eschatological, but as Encratite and philosophical.”
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