DIMERITÆ, a name given to the Apollinarists, who at first held, that the word only assumed a human body, without taking a reasonable soul like ours; but being at length convinced by formal texts of scripture, they allowed, that he did assume a soul, but without understanding; the word supplying the want of that faculty. From this way of separating the understanding from the soul, they became denominated dimariter, q. d. dividers, separators, of vis and visus, I divide.