Mo-nŏph'y-site, n.

(mo-nŏf′ĭ-sīt), n. [Fr. monophysite, Gr. μονοφυσίτης, from μόνος, alone, single, and φύσις, nature. See PHYSIC.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one nature.