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Definition of Encratite

Encratite
Encratite En"cra*tite, n. [L. Encratitae, pl., fr. Gr. ? self-disciplined; ? in + ? strength.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

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- The Encratites ("self-controlled") were an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat. Eusebius says...
- Severians were a sect of gnostic Encratites. Epiphanius supposes their leader Severus to have preceded Tatian (founder of Encratites) but Eusebius, Theodoret...
- Severus, 2nd-century Roman general Severus (Encratite), founder of the gnostic sect Severian Encratites Gaius Claudius Severus, Roman senator and consul...
- Semi-Arianism Audianism Colluthians Collyridianism Ebionites Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics Aquarii Severians Johannines Marcionism Melitians Montanism...
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- remained a significant center. ****ual abstinence such as those of the Encratites sect of Christians was only one aspect of ascetic renunciation, and both...
- of Marcion's edited version of Luke Gospel of Valentinus Gospel of the Encratites Gospel of Andrew – mentioned by only two 5th century sources (Augustine...
- denigrated human ****ual reproduction and accusing him of having been an Encratite. John once again denied this request. By 395, Jerome had allied himself...
- Hammadi clarified modern understanding of Gnosticism. It is now considered encratite—a product of an ascetical sect of Christians that forbade marriage. Prior...
- origin is probably Syrian, and it possibly derives from a sect called the Encratites, whose founder, Tatian, taught that **** and marriage were symptoms of...