An adherent of
Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century, who was condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in
Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call
Mary the
mother of God though she might be called the
mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of
Nestorius in Persia, India, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. Opposed to
Eutychian. [
1913 Webster]