Aerians

pl. [See def.] Church Hist. The followers of Aérius, a presbyter who lived in the fourth century, and held semi-Arian tenets respecting the Trinity. He, moreover, maintained that there was no scriptural distinction between bishops and presbyters, that Easter should not be celebrated, and that there should be no prayers for the dead. (Mosheim: Ch. Hist ., Cent. IV.)