CHAZINZIANS, a sect of heretics, who rose in Armenia in the seventh century. The word is formed of the Armenian, chazus, "cross." They are also called staurolatræ, which, in Greek, signifies the same as chazinzians in Armenian, viz. advers of the cross; they being charged with paying adoration to the cross alone. In other respects they were Nestorians; and admitted two persons in Jesus Christ. Nicephorus ascribes other singularities to them; particularly their holding an annual feast, in memory of the dog of their false prophet Sergius which they called artizibartzes.