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Webster 1913 Edition
Elcesaite
El-ce′sa-ite
,Noun.
[From
Elcesai
, the leader of the sect.] (Eccl.)
One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.
Definition 2024
Elcesaite
Elcesaite
English
Noun
Elcesaite (plural Elcesaites)
- (historical) A member of an ancient Jewish-Christian sect, possibly related to the Ebionites, in Sassanid southern Mesopotamia.