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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Artotyrites

(4 syl.).

Certain heretics from among the Montanists; so called because they used bread and cheese in the Eucharist. They admitted women to the priesthood. (Greek, artos, barley-bread, and turos, cheese.)

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