a. and sb. Also 6 Eutichian, 6–7 -ean. [ad. L. Eutychiān-us, f. Eutych-es + -IAN.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or adhering to the doctrine of Eutyches, a presbyter of Constantinople, in the 5th cent., who maintained that the human nature of Christ was lost in the divine. B. sb. A member of the Eutychian sect.
1556. J. Clement, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. App. lxi. 214. From all Arians, Eutichians … and all other heretikes.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 187. The Eutychian heresie … denyed the trueth of Christes body after the adunation therof to the Diuinitie.
1635. Pagitt, Christianogr., I. ii. (1636), 176. The Armenians are judged by manie to be Eutichean heretickes.
1724. Waterland, Athan. Creed, vii. 103. It cannot reasonably be set lower than the Eutychian Times.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 775. The measures which were employed against the Eutychians were rather harsh.
Hence Eutychianism, the Eutychian heresy.
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., xxi. 186. Eutychianisme so mightily prevailed in those parts.
1846. G. S. Faber, Tractar. Secession, 192. The Eutychianism which Dr. Moehler would make the badge of … the Protestant System.
