Usually means: Ascetic sect abstaining from marriage.
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▸ noun:  (historical) One of an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat.

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Encratism, Apotactite, abstinent, Agapetae, pancratiast, anchoretism, Artotyrite, Adamitism, Cerinthian, ascesis, more...

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Encratism, Apotactite, abstinent, Agapetae, pancratiast, anchoretism, Artotyrite, Adamitism, Cerinthian, ascesis, more...



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