Crossword-Solution: ENCRATITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Encratite | n. | One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ENCRATITE (5)
The Encratite controversy was, on the one hand, swallowed up by the Gnostic, and on the other hand, replaced by the Montanistic.
Here they sought for a narrow line between the Marcionite and Encratite mode of life and the common church practice, and had no longer the courage and the candour to proclaim the "e sæculo excedere." Sexual purity and the renunciation of the enjoyments of life were the demands of the new prophets.
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.
The simplest solution of the difficulty would be to write συμβιῶσαι,(83) “some of them refrain from marital relations after having lived together, others preserve their virginity.” Whether this emendation is right or not, it is clear that Epiphanius describes his Dositheans as a kind of Encratite ascetics, while the prohibition of polygamy—whether contemporaneous or consecutive—by our sect has a totally different ground; of asceticism there is, indeed, no symptom in its ordinances.
Marriage and property had already been eschewed in the Jewish Essene and Therapeutic sects, and in Christianity the name of Encratite was given to those who repudiated marriage and the use of wine.