Brewer's: Apollinarians

An ancient sect founded in the middle of the fourth century by Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea. They denied that Christ had a human soul, and asserted that the Logos supplied its place. The Athanasian creed condemns this heresy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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