Ăn'gel-ite, n.

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of heretics, near the close of the fifth century, who held the persons of the Trinity not to be the same, nor to exist by their own nature, but each to be a God, existing by participating of a deity common to them all. They are so called from Angelium, in Alexandria, where they held their first meetings. Encyc.