AGYNIANI, in church history, a sect who condemned all use of flesh, and marriage, as not instituted by God, but introduced at the instigation of the devil. The word is compounded of the privative a, and γυνή, woman. They are sometimes also called Agynenses, and Agynii: and are said to have appeared about the year 694. It is no wonder they were of no long continuance. Their tenets coincide in a great measure with those of the Abelianians, Gnostics, Cerdonians, and other preachers of chastity and abstinence.