Apollinaʹrians
. An ancient sect founded in the middle of the fourth century by Apollinaʹris, bishop of Laodiceʹa. They denied that Christ had a human soul, and asserted that the Logos supplied its place. The Athanasian creed condemns this heresy.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.