[ad. med.L., ad. Gr. ἀντιδικομαριανῖται, f. ἀντίδικ-ος adversary + Μαρία Mary.] pl. Adversaries of Mary; a name applied to Oriental Christians, in the 4th c., who denied the perpetual virginity of the mother of Jesus.
a. 1625. J. Boys, Wks., 1629, 21. Old Helvidians, New Antidicomarianits, holding it a point of zeale to disgrace this holy Virgin.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Antidicomarianites … otherwise called Antidicomaritæ, and Antidicomarites, and Antidicomarianists, sometimes also Antimariani.
