Arabic i

pl. [From Arabia, in which the sect arose.] Church Hist.: A sect which sprung up about A.D. 207. Their distinguishing tenet was, that the soul died with the body, but revived with it at the resurrection. Origen is said to have re-converted them to the orthodox belief, and thus extinguished their separate organisation. Ar-ab-i-çize, v.t. [Eng. Arabic ; -ize.] To render akin to Arabic. being superseded by Hindi in its Arabicised form of Urdu. Beames: Compar. Fram. of Aryan Lang. of India , vol. i. (1872), Introd., p. 96.