Euchite
[ yoo-kahyt ]
/ ˈyu kaɪt /
noun
a member of a mendicant, ascetic sect living chiefly in Syria and Mesopotamia in the 4th–7th centuries a.d., and holding a belief that the demon in each person can be expelled only by ceaseless prayer.
Also called
Messalian.
Origin of Euchite
First recorded in 1575–85