AZYMITES, they who communicate with bread not leavened or fermented. See AZYMUS. This appellation is given by Cerularius, to those of the Latin Church, upon his excommunicating them in the XIth century. The Armenians and Maronites do also make use of azymus, or unleavened bread, in their office; on which account some Greeks call them Azymites. See ARMENIAN and MARONITE.
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