Usually means: Christian adherent of Byzantine rite.
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  1. Melchite: Merriam-Webster
  2. Melchite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Melchite: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Melchite: Vocabulary.com
  5. Melchite: Wordnik
  6. Melchite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Melchite: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Melchite, melchite: Dictionary.com
  9. Melchite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Melchite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. melchite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Melchite: Rhymezone
  13. Melchite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. melchite: FreeDictionary.org
  15. melchite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Melchite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Melchite: Wiktionary
  18. Melchite: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Melchite)

noun:  Alternative form of Melkite [(historical) In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.]

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