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Nov 19, 2008
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Docetes

(3 syl.). An early heretical sect, which maintained that Jesus Christ was only God, and that His visible form was merely a phantom; that the crucifixion and resurrection were illusions. (The word is Greek, and means phantomists.)

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