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 γυναι 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 Abellians, Gnostics, Cerdonians, and other preachers of chastity and abstinence.