Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Elcesaite

Elcesaite , noun

[From Elcesai, the leader of the sect.]

(Ecclesiastical) One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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