Eutrophy

( Med.) A good state of nutrition. Eu'tyches, the founder of the sect of the EUTYCHIANS, Eutych'ianism, n. The system or doctrines of Eutyches. Eutych'ians, n. pl. ( Eccl. Hist.) A religious sect of the 5th century, named after their founder Eutyches, abbot of a monastery in Constantinople. They were marked by the vehemence of their opposition to the heresy of the Nestor i ans. The latter had a erted the distinctne of the two natures in Christ; the E. fell into the opposite extreme, and held that the human nature of Christ was absorbed in the divine, and that his body had no real existence. Their views were condemned in a synod held at Constantinople, in 448, by Flavian, patriarch of that city, and Eutyches deposed; but this decision was controverted by another council held at Ephesus the following year. Eutychianism, however, was finally condemned in 451, at the general council of Chalcedon, which declared "that in Christ two distinct natures were united in one person, and that without any change, mixture, or confusion."