Är'/to-tÿ'rîte, n.

n. [L. Lat. Artotyrītæ, pl., from Gr. ἄρτος, bread, and τυρός, cheese.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of heretics, in the primitive church, who celebrated the eucharist with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men were not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks.