Artotyrite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Artotyrite \Ar`to*ty"rite\, n. [LL. Artotyritae, pl., fr. Gr. ?
     bread + ? cheese.] (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the
     Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first
     oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of
     their flocks. [--Gen. iv. 3, 4.]


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