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- noun Plural form of
Euchite .
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Euchites from the Greek translation of their Oriental name (euchetai from euchomai, to pray); Adelphians from their first leader;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Gnosticism flourished through various offshoots such as the Manicheans of the third century, the Euchites of the fourth century, the Paulicans of the seventh century, and the Bogomils of the ninth century Nesta H.
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Gnosticism flourished through various offshoots such as the Manicheans of the third century, the Euchites of the fourth century, the Paulicans of the seventh century, and the Bogomils of the ninth century Nesta H.
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It is, however, idle to deny that the cult of evil has always existed; the invocation of the powers of darkness was practised in the earliest days of the human race and, after the Christian era, found its expression, as we have seen, in the Cainites, the Euchites, and the
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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In the fourteenth century a pseudo-spiritualism akin to that of the ancient Euchites or Messalians, culminating in the famous Hesychast controversies (see HESYCHASM; PALAMAS), greatly disturbed the mutual harmony of Greek monasteries, especially those of Mount Athos, one of whose monks, Callistus, had become Patriarch of Constantinople
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The obligation to pray is incumbent on us at all times, not that prayer should be our sole occupation, as the Euchites, or Messalians, and similar heretical sects professed to believe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The same Quietistic tendency appears in the teaching of the Euchites or Messalians (q.v.), who maintained that prayer frees the body from passion and the soul from evil inclination, so that sacraments and penitential works are useless.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The Bogomiles were perhaps a revival of the earlier sect of the Euchites or Messalians who are mentioned by writers of the fourth century.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907
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Euchites, Montanists; in the third, fourth and fifth centuries with the Novatians, and Donatists; in the seventh with the Paulicians; in the tenth, the Paterines; in the eleventh century, the Waldenses, Albigensis, Henicians and Christians.
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note, c: The Euchites, who were so called from their profession of prayer, were properly fanatical Monks of the fourth and following centuries, but their name is often taken as synonymous with Mystics.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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