variants:
or Melkite
Definition of Melchite
1
: an Eastern Christian chiefly of Syria and Egypt adhering to Chalcedonian orthodoxy in preference to Monophysitism
2
: a member of a Uniate body derived from the Melchites
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The first known use of Melchite was in 1615
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